Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
In the words of the scientists who conducted the research, "the fact that the temperature sensitivity of gross primary productivity is larger than that of ecosystem respiration suggests that global warming could lead to increased carbon sequestration in boreal ecosystems." References
As the late David Bradford of Princeton University (one of the leading lights in tax reform who will be much missed) told Time Magazine in 2003, a consumption tax "approach yields enormous simplification of the rules related to capital gains, interest deductions, and treatment of complex financial transactions. It appalls me that all this brilliant talent is going into the design of ways of gaming our tax system." In short, waste of human capital is as important as waste of capital investment.
The mistake that climate science makes is to equate the output temperature with the input temperature, which is the same thing as equating the output flux to the input flux in a rather naive attempt to conserve energy. But this goes about it the wrong way we need to conserve energy first, and let the flux be whatever they actually are in real-time to correspond with that energy. It is wrong to start at the output flux and work backwards by equating that with the input flux, in order to conserve energy. This conserves energy but it does not conserve physics because physics depends on real-time flux, and in real-time the input flux is not the same as the output flux . The input flux only occurs over half of the area that the output flux comes from, and hence is much more dense and hence much more warm.
But let's forgive Mr Chu this mistake - his field was laser optics, not the phase transitions of water. And incidentally, the ice age will eventually return. In a few dozens of thousands of years, there will be another one and the natural contribution to the dropping temperature will be over 5 C. Why doesn't Steven Chu and others care about the people in the year 22008 who will be threatened by a new ice age? It's not as convenient for their goals as their worries aboutt the people who live in 2108, is it?
CFACT Europe Challenges Environmentalist Orthodoxy with "Eco-Nihilism: A Critique of Political Ecology"
Increased prosperity in India and China is good, but now we have to follow up with an increase in food production. Molecular plant breeding techniques will create that increase. Europe cannot opt out of the international river of grains to go it alone, it's time to get with the program.
Apparently, many in Washington and elsewhere, particularly those in the Administration, remain ignorant of the critical role CO2 has in life on the planet and the enormous benefits that enhanced atmospheric carbon dioxide is providing to plant life, to the environment, and to humanity. One is tempted to ask: are those who declare that carbon is a pollutant of a different, carbon-free life form?
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Regulatory Policy Analyst Isaac Post on the ideological background of the CSR movement:
It is implausible to expect that small changes in the concentration of any minor atmospheric constituent such as carbon dioxide, can significantly influence that radiative equilibrium.
President Obama says that the climate is collapsing and that he is going to rescue the human race by fixing it.
* Renewable fuels will prevent oil depletion and reduce imports. Baloney. U.S. oil and natural gas were declining and imports rising for decades, because environmentalists and politicians blocked leasing and drilling. The very people decrying the situation were causing it. They wanted to justify a non-hydrocarbon future that would give them greater control over our economy and living standards and build a power base that tied them and votes to farmers and companies that benefitted from this Washington-mandated industry and wealth transfers from taxpayers and consumers to the new political power brokers.
Some commentators have been very quick to seize on one more example of perceived Team iniquity. That I had been publicly seeking this data for a long time and that Briffa had withheld the data not just from me (but also from D??Arrigo et al, for example) lent an unsavory aspect to CRU??s conduct, fresh after widespread unfavorable publicity for CRU??s withholding of temperature data (by Briffa??s long-time colleague and mentor, Phil Jones.)
its government. Four years before ordering the Navy seal mission to take out bin Laden, President Obama basically said how he would
The bounce back in the extent of sea ice in the Arctic this summer was reflected also in the volume of ice.
But it will also include food and grocery manufacturers, alcohol companies and healthcare providers, to name a few.
The means more then normal north to south contrast and moisture aplenty to help feed spring severe weather activity. Normally La Nina springs have more severe weather activity as have posted earlier.
In an article intended to raise pubic consciousness about the threat of global warming, environmental writer Bill McKibben mentioned reports that, in northern Russia, "venomous snakes had appeared for the first time..," well, venomous snakes will certainly get people's attention.
Cavuto asked why, instead of getting oil from Libyas Moammar Gadhafi and other Middle East countries, America doesnt drill for more oil domestically. Morano replied, The Congressional Research Service just did a study of natural gas, coal, and oil. We have more than the entire world, we have more than China, Canada, and Saudi Arabia combined, but 83 percentof our lands are inaccessible for oil drilling. And we have the Interior Department held in contempt of court for not allowing more permitting out in the Gulf Coast.
He does not consider that the pieces upon the chess-board have no other principle of motion besides that which the hand impresses upon them; but that, in the great chess-board of human society, every single piece has a principle of motion of its own, altogether different from that which the legislature might choose to impress upon it.
The congressional hearings also revealed that EDF might possibly profit from early action credits. David Ridenour told the congressmen at the hearing that EDF, which helped write the Chafee early action bill, may be trying to position itself as a third party verifier of emissions reductions. He cited a report by the NonProfit Accountability Project, Crony Environmentalism, in which EDF is accused of a conflict of interest in supporting the Chafee bill.
While this is quite similar to my previous result, there is one major difference. The trends fit better. The difference in the trends in my previous results is just barely visible. But when I use a fat-tailed exponential decay function, the difference in trend can no longer be seen. The trend in the NH is about three times as large as the trend in the SH (0.3C vs 0.1C per decade). Despite that, using solely the variations in net sunshine we are able to replicate each hemisphere exactly.
The UK's HadCRUT global temperature dataset indicates a global cooling trend of -0.2C/century over last 15 years, plus May 2012 was slightly cooler - the global warming science facts, per the IPCC's own gold-standard
The planet will fall apart if a bunch of hysterical nitwits cant seize control of the government.
The only more prolific snow-producers this deep into March occurred March 28-29, 1942 (11.5 inches), and March 27-28, 1891 (12 inches).
A TRF reader who may be described as an achieved physicist and whose name can be found if you study the recent comments carefully has brought us some amazing details about the Higgs rumor at the Tevatron.
Recently, we heard assertions from some reliable people that 2014 was the hottest year on record. News anchors and reporters dutifully, and without their usual skepticism, conveyed the news as fact. The Associated Press reported that 2014 was the hottest year, citing NOAA and NASA data, but was later forced to clarify its story, conceding that it did not include the caveat that other recent years had average temperatures that were almost as high and they all fall within a margin of error that lessens the certainty that any one of the years was the hottest. NOAA and NASA also quietly had to concede that 2014 was probably not the warmest year, but I would venture to guess that very few people noticed the update.
I read that the 3 soldiers were taken to a US military hospital in Germany. Thank you America.
Bottom line: It really looks that the third runway has significantly warmed summer temperatures at the airport. Thus, one must be really careful in assuming that any warming there is the result of some kind of greenhouse gas influence.
Lomborg?s new book argues that, ?Investing $100bn annually would mean that we could essentially resolve the climate change problem by the end of this century,? The trouble is there is no climate change problem. This investment proposal by Lomborg is precisely the type of misdirection of funding because of bad science, which is the main theme of his more famous book.
to senior professors, who reply with short ones after a delay; the
Bypassing scientific controversy, As You Sow pretends as if no debate exists in targeting business prey that would rather quietly and, ultimately, futilely appease the group than risk attack.
Educators who turn schools into indoctrination centers have been going all out to propagandize a whole generation with Al Gore??s movie, ???An Inconvenient Truth??- which has in fact carried a message that has been very convenient for Al Gore financially, producing millions of dollars from his ???green?? activities.
Yet the global warming alarmism and especially the public policy measures connected with it have been triumphally marching on. Even the recent worldwide financial and economic crisis and the enormous confusion, fear, as well as indebtedness it created did not stop this victorious ?long march.?
Greens Whining as G-8 Climate Deal Remains Uncertain
If so, the Court will compound the growing tar-baby effect of the climate change issue, in which every institution that touches it gets de-legitimized, including the EPA, the presidency, the scientific community, the mainstream media, and the Supreme Court itself. It will also devastate the U.S. economy, but hey, let's just sing a few choruses of Tom Lehrer: "Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down? That's not my department!"
Ethanol has been a critically important chemical for a very long time. In fact, it has been used for eight thousand years or sogoing back to the Paleolithic eraand some research suggests that Stone Age people recognized the value of a good tipple. As commentator George Will recently pointed out, some have even argued that ethanol, in the form of beer and wine, was an evolutionary driver in helping humanity transcend its original hunter-gatherer lifestyle and begin living in denser population clusters.
Its the longest tree-ring fire history in the world, and its from this amazing place with these amazing trees. said lead author Thomas W. Swetnam of the UA. This is an epic collection of tree rings.
Many believe that America has only a small fraction of the world's oil resources and that supplies will soon be exhausted. In fact, America has an abundance of energy resources. Though not all reserves are recoverable with today's technology, recent estimates project that the United States has over five times as much oil as Saudi Arabia. In fact, when American, Canadian, and Mexican reserves are combined, North American oil reserves total nearly 1.8 trillion barrels of recoverable oil.
good faith and pushed down the price of Iranian energy as well as the
The author writes that "in the context of global climate change, urban warming can bias results obtained for background monitoring, as many of the observatories that have been in operation for a long time are located in cities." Nevertheless, and in spite of this fact, Fujibe notes that the IPCC (2007) has suggested that "the globally averaged temperature trend is hardly affected by urbanization." What was done
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Settled science update: Climate models make 'very large' errors in determining solar radiation at Earth's surface, 'ignore the effect of clouds'
Pielke Sr., Roger A., 2008: A Broader View of the Role of Humans in the Climate System is Required In the Assessment of Costs and Benefits of Effective Climate Policy . Written Testimony for the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality of the Committee on Energy and Commerce Hearing Climate Change: Costs of Inaction Honorable Rick Boucher, Chairman. June 26, 2008, Washington, DC., 52 pp. .
Cubans bundled up against a record low temperature in Havana on Friday.
Dr. Sallie Baliunas of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics is one of the world's experts on the sources of climate change. Baliunas argues that natural variations in the sun's energy closely correlate with known changes in Earth temperatures over the centuries. Baliunas believes such natural variations account for nearly all of the global warming trend of the 20th century, while human impact has been at most "tiny." James Glassman, American Enterprise Institute fellow, long-time host of the late, lamented Techno-Politics, and publisher of the Website TechCentralStation, recently interviewed Baliunas. We reprint a brief edited excerpt here. To see the full interview go to www.techcentralstation.com.
The Winrock team, which included scientists from Applied GeoSolutions, NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory and University of Maryland, combined the best available spatially consistent datasets on gross forest loss and forest carbon stocks to track emissions from deforestation in millions of individual map pixels. Their methods focus on carbon losses to the atmosphere and do not include regrowth, which sequesters carbon from the atmosphere. The resulting gross emissions estimate of 0.81 billion metric tons of carbon emitted per year, with a statistically derived 90 percent prediction interval of 0.57-1.22 billion metric tons, is approximately one third of previously published estimates and represents just 10 percent of total global anthropogenic carbon emissions over the time period analyzed. The findings are published in the journal Science.
Cranes pedigree is a lot better than minedegrees from Princeton and Harvard Law and lots of business experience. With all that going for him, it may not surprise you that Crane has a philosophical bent to go with his industry smarts. The currentissue of Energy Biz summarizes some of hisrecent thoughts in an article with the deeptitle, Carbon Morality: The Nearsidedness of Incumbency .
Before the new Congress is sworn in, we already hear a lot of talk about lifting the ban on oil exports that was put into place in response to the 1970s Arab oil embargo. Reuters reports: Senator Murkowski "has fought to relax the ban all year by issuing a series of papers detailing how such exports have been allowed in the past, holding a private meeting on the subject with Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker, and hinting that 2015 could be the time to introduce ban-ending legislation."
15c. Current state of scientific knowledge allow for a reasonable assessment of the effects of land surface processes
Climate Realists announce that new satellite data from Japanese scientists show carbon dioxide is emitted mostly by the third world, with much less coming from industry in the west. For those asleep in the back, thats the reverse of our previous understanding (so its a confusing result). On the map, pink is where emissions are occurring, green is where absorption is occurring.
ENSO is a natural phenomenon , but may change under a changing climate and is interesting to watch over the long term.
25a. Potential for catastrophe from climate change for the country in which you live in the next ten years (very low to very high).
Here . Excerpts: But after years of gentle coaxing by his wife, Cambria Gordon, a writer and environmental activist, he has officially gone green. ... My wife Cambria is a longtime global-warming activist who wrote a book with Laurie David called "The Down-to-Earth Guide to Global Warming." ... To be honest, there are skeptics on the writing staff who aren't embracing this challenge with the same vigor as me. I respect all points of view among our writers. We do argue a lot at lunchtime.
In a world without air conditioning, a warmer, more flexible, more relaxed workplace helps make summer a time to slow down again. Three-digit temperatures prompt siestas. Code-orange days mean offices are closed. Shorter summer business hours and month-long closings common in pre-air-conditioned America return.
It is also something more significant. Each bag of tea represented the donation of somebody who wanted to make a statement as part of the tea-party project. What that means is that over 1 million Americans are sick and tired of being treated like Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and Barack Obama's ATM.
This would ordinarily be bad news for landowners, industries and anyone else who might run afoul of the EPA's re-empowered enforcement units. However, the ANPR may be evidence of overreach. Virtually everyone who has looked at the EPA's plans warn of regulatory overload, with the requirements for enforcement far outweighing the abilities of a normal government department. Traditional environmental enforcement could play second fiddle to the new greenhouse gas enforcement.
Mann called himself a reluctant and accidental public figure in the debate over climate change.
And to drive the point home, Figure 4 is a graph of the January sea surface temperatures (not anomalies) for the New England coastal waters from 1854 to 2013. Sea surface temperatures were much warmer during the 1930s and 40s.
It looks like the $210 million-dollar-funded agenda is hard up for cash!
IPCC Climate Model Scientists Badly Botch The Science Of Sea Levels - Honest Error(s)?
"RealClimate: the insulated web site, where insulated researchers post insulated content"
While the dominant Czech utility, EZ, has scaled down some of the communist plans, it remained the most ambitious nuclear company in Europe. In the following 20 years, it should be building new nuclear power plants somewhere at every moment - including new units in Temeln (CZ), Dukovany (CZ), and Cernavoda (RO).
I agree with your comments. Like you, I believe that 95% of CRU is obtained from GHCN, with a very few non-GHCN sources, of which Austria is one (Norway, Sweden, Denmark are others.) Like you, I believe that they do relatively trivial manipulations of GHCN data. AS Ive said elsewhere, that is my best guess as to the secret that they dont want exposed and the only commercial interest that they are protecting.
Sierra Club President Michael Brune said that President Obama, "can either lead our country to a clean energy future or he can approve a pipeline that will bring the dirtiest oil on the planet through the US, and for the next decades we will know that the Keystone XL was approved under Obama"
Not illustrated: At least one of the modeling groups appears to include a Solar Cycle 24 of lower amplitude, and then repeat Solar Cycles 22, 23 and 24 into the future.
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Sea power. A hundred years after Theodore Roosevelt sent his Great While Fleet around the world to signal the emergence of a new great power, China is rediscovering the writings of Admiral Mahan on the importance of sea power in history and dreaming of a Great White Fleet of its own. Against the backdrop of an ever-shrinking U.S. Navy (more on that later), China is transforming itself as a maritime superpower at such high speed that Western analysts estimate it could become the world's leading naval power by 2020.
Secret Walmart Survey Shows Inflation Already Here:
Beevers 2011 paper tried to counter those findings by arguing there was a nearly five-fold increase in the rate of local extinctions and an 11-fold increase in the rate of upslope range retraction during the last ten years. But Beever had badly manipulated his data. Surveying his 25 sites, he too had found 10 examples where pikas now inhabited lower elevations than previously documented. But he decided not to use those observations in his calculations. He, the editors and peer-reviewers unapologetically published his biased calculations to create his 11-fold increase in the rate of upslope range retraction . Beever defended this statistical blasphemy by arguing pikas had likely always lived at those lower elevations, but had escaped detection by earlier observers (the equivalent of climate science infilling). Perhaps. It was possible. But by eliminating all new observations of pikas at warmer, lower elevations, he guaranteed their statistical upslope retreat.
And despite common claims that the ???science is settled?? when it comes to global warming, we are still learning more and more about the earth complex climate systemand the more we learn, the less responsive it seems that the earths average temperature is to human carbon dioxide emissions.
Sowing the stratosphere with particles to reflect the Sun and cool the planet is possible with current technology and would cost a fraction of the bill from climate change or reducing emissions by fossil fuels, they argue.
Passive microwave measurements are missing vast areas of ice, because an early winter storm broke the ice up into chunks which the satellites are unable to detect. Alarmists are going hysterical, based ongarbagedata.
It is abundantly clear from Stambaugh et al .'s findings that there is nothing unusual, unnatural or unprecedented about any 20th or 21st century droughts that may have occurred throughout the agricultural heartland of the United States. It is also clear that the much greater droughts of the past millennium occurred during periods of both relative cold and relative warmth , as well as the transitions between them . Thus, to testify that "droughts are becoming longer and more intense," and to imply that they are doing so because of global warming, is to be doubly disingenuous .
Another Record-Breaking Federal Register? Federal Regulations Surge in 2011
CO2 is a colorless gas? Not if you have a NASA supercomputer to model it. From CBS News, NASA video brings carbon dioxide pollution to life in vivid, swirling colors
I should point out that we didnt follow the sound advice for purchasing a puppy, such as seeing the puppys parents, using a Kennel Club registered breeder, and not taking a puppy that is under 8 weeks old. However, he was cute and we loved him already. My wife wanted to call him Diesel, but our daughter Michelle wanted to name Lucky after the dog in the cartoon film 101 Dalmatians. Michelle won and our new puppy was duly named Lucky.
The global temperature has been rising at a steady trend rate of 0.5C per century since the end of the little ice age in the 1700s (when the Thames River would freeze over every winter). On top of the trend are oscillations that last about thirty years in each direction:
Professor Bellamy says that climate change has always happened but doubts man-made climate change.It is total poppycock.
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So, how's that stimulus spending going for ya? Still, spin springs eternal... Miami Herald; - "What appeared to be bad news for the economy -- another increase in the unemployment rate -- was tempered by a drop in new job losses." Charlotte Observer "Despite 9.7% jobless rate, numbers show rays of hope" . You see, it's all about the upbeat view! While the increased competition for ever-scarcer jobs may sound like bad news to job seekers, some economists say that having more people return to the job hunt could be a good sign. The fact that labor force participation is rising often signals that consumers are taking a more upbeat view of the labor market and are finally looking for jobs, said John Ryding, chief economist at RDQ Economics. The last link is from June, but I went searching for it after hearing it repeated by a different porcine makeup artist on radio yesterday.