Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
I am for a carbon tax. I also believe that the Climategate emails revealed, to an extent that surprised even me (and I am difficult to surprise), an ethos of suffocating groupthink and intellectual corruption?
I was privileged to moderate the workshop that included CFACT senior policy analyst Paul Driessen; publisher and editor of ClimateDepot.com Marc Morano; and former national field director for CFACT's Collegians campus program Robert Harrelson.
Canadian researcher Steve McIntyre discovered earlier this week that the IPCCs recent report on alternative energy which asserted that it was possible to convert the world to 80% green energy by 2050 if politicians would simply tax conventional sources and spend billions on alternative sources was lifted largely from Greenpeace reports.
ex-employee. It showed Pachauri as an infant, Pachauri as a toddler, Pachauri at school, Pachauri playing cricket, Pachauri getting married. It was all about Pachauri the Great and his achievements.
In a world brought up on the idea of a "population explosion," this is a radical notion. The world's population is still growingit will take some time for it to actually start shrinkingbut the next crisis is depopulation.
As in all newly elected administrations, President Obama and his minions made commitments to regulate in accordance with the dictates of science and to act in the public interest. They have failed spectacularly, instead consistently adopting unscientific, anti-technology, anti-business, economy-slowing, job-killing policies. This latest example is one of the most egregious. If Obama's concerns about the importance of scientific integrity in the regulatory process were genuine, both Vilsack and Merrigan would be history.
Media reports that GMO science is settled are flat out wrong
All historical El Ninos including the currently emerging 2015 El Nino (Figure 2) have originated at this same deep western pacific Ocean Point source in the Solomon Island / New Guinea area.
And even the "usually panic-stricken Worldwatch Institute reported in 1992 that `with nearly 90 percent of its groves still standing, by national or international standards, the Brazilian Amazon is relatively untouched." (Eco-Sanity, p.89)
I would add that the part of the presidents new policy offering work permits to some of those whose deportation is deferred in no way changes the analysis above. The work permits are merely a formalization of the the presidents exercise of prosecutorial discretion here, which indicates that the administration will not attempt to deport these people merely for being present in the United States and attempting to find jobs here. They do not purport to legalize their status, and the policy of nondeportation can be reversed at any time by the president or his successor.
And so we discover yet another positive impact of CO 2 -induced ocean acidification on Earth's marine life in which the "harmful effects of UVR on C. curvisetus could be counteracted."
The eastern slopes of the Cascades are susceptible to very heavy thunderstorm rains during the summer and on Saturday night it happened again.
The 'greenhouse gases' convert the energy carried by the infrared radiation emitted from the surface into heat in the oxygen and nitrogen in the atmosphere. The greenhouse gas (water vapor) that produces 95% of the 'greenhouse effect' near the surface is also the component in the atmosphere that sets the lapse rate. The supposed amplification of AGW by the increase in the concentration of water vapor by an increase in the concentration of CO 2 is contradicted by the measurements taken by radiosondes of temperature changes in the atmosphere, which clearly show that an increase in the concentration of water vapor causes the temperature of the surface to fall rather than rise.
But other experts maintain we are in for another big freeze. Positive Weather Solutions senior forecaster Jonathan Powell said: ?It baffles me how the Met Office can predict a milder-than-average winter when all the indicators show this winter will have parallels to the last one.
6. The "ecological overshoot" model of Mathis Wackernagel has been analyzed previously in Steven F. Hayward, "Sustainable Development in the Balance," Environmental Policy Outlook (August 1, 2002).
SM: Well, what can you say about Ralph Nader? Thank God for Ralph Nader or else Al Gore would be president today.
An excellent discussion of this aspect of the debate can be found in Robert H. Nelson ?Ecological Science as a Creation Story?, The Independent Review, vol. 14, no. 4, Spring 2010, pp. 513-534.
The president's top goals in the second term are to overhaul the U.S. tax and Social Security systems. If he succeeds, the gap between America's growth rate and Europe's will widen, and political pressure in Europe for free-market reforms will grow.
The climate models overestimate temperature rises due to CO 2 by at least a factor of three.
Apparently, Minnis was indeed asked to review the manuscript. We finally received a decision letter from Schekman (attached to the following email). There were 4 reviews. One was from Minnis. Another may have been by Ramanathan. The other two were from those recommended by the board.
Of course, the stupid district court judge Ms Gisela Triana agreed for the first time in the history that the atmosphere is a subject to the " public trust doctrine " which was invented to force a government to protect the natural resources belonging to the people led by this government.
In other words, they aren?t interested in actual debate. They want to be authority figures who school the rest of us. Anyone who challenges them is reflexively pigeon-holed, labeled, and dismissed as
Structural uncertainty is rarely quantified in context of subsequent model versions. Continual ad hoc adjustment of GCMs(calibration) provides a means for the model to avoid being falsified new model forms with increasing complexity aregenerally regarded better.
The usual suspects denounced the ANPR as a climate delayer tactic. However, any fair-minded reader (the ANPR spans 166pages in the Federal Register plus 11 technical support documents)willsee thatCAA regulation of GHG emissionsaboundswith administrativeconundrums and economic risks neveraddressed bypetitioners in Mass v. EPA .Bypassing this crucial exploratory analysis would havepreemptedpublic debate on the full range of legal, economic, and scientific issues.When EPA published its ANPR and opened a 120-day comment period, itstruck a small blow for good government.
Moreover, for those watching recent E.U. developments, events there are a source ofconsiderable concern rather than admiration. Euroskeptics (or Eurorealists, as they prefer) have repeatedly highlighted the E.U.'s "democratic deficit," a phrase often associated with Margaret Thatcher's E.U. critique. Not only are E.U. institutions and processes remote, opaque, and unaccountable but also, as a consequence, they lack the legitimacy so fundamental to acceptable governance. The euro's unfolding debacle only underlines this point.
Americas electricity generation landscape is rapidly changing. Federal and state policies threaten to shutter more than 111 GW of existing coal and nuclear generation, while large amounts of renewables, such as wind, are forced on the grid. To understand the impacts of these policies, it is critical to understand the cost difference between existing and new sources of generation.
The reason why SST, CO2 and LOD correlate so well is that they are all dependent variables. The external driving force is the independent variable. It is the electromagnetic field imposed on the earth which causes motion (rotation) and electromagnetically induced heating. The driving force is nominally from the Sun.
Rttelse via Lennart Bengtsson now p frmiddagen: history writing is not entirely correct d it was actually lngtidsprognosavdelningen at the Deutsche Wetterdienst under the direction of Mr. Bauer made this prediction and not KWI.
Second, when it comes to the environment, people have been warned by "scientists" of catastrophe for decades. Many of us were supposed to die long ago from heat, floods, storms, crop failure, etc. It didn't happen. Global warming fatigue has been brewing for years, and is now firmly entrenched. Google Trends reveals that over the last 10 years, Google searches on "climate" have steadily decreased to about 50% of what they were, whereas interest in "weather" has increased by about 50%.
Station Manager Andy Hoyland said a water pump from a neighbouring brigade was being used to carry water from a nearby reservoir, to help extinguish the fire.
More Midwest daily maximum temperature records were set in the heat waves of 1911 and the 1930s than in the 2012 heat wave.
A British High Court judge ruled that "An Inconvenient Truth" promotes "partisan political views," was riddled with errors and falsehoods, and could not be shown any more in schools, unless accompanied by a teacher's guide correcting information that Gore had misrepresented. Two of the most egregious distortions are especially likely to scare kids.
Michaels also discusses the scientific controversy. Although the skeptics pointed out in 1990 that computer models were predicting much more warming than observed, it wasn't until 1995 that the IPCC admitted as much. The argument made, according to Michaels, was, "Either it's not going to warm up as much as we said it was, or something (like sulfate aerosol) is reducing the warming."
(A closer analysis of the red curve shows that it is monoexponential without biexponential, and that the rapid component is close (menr not equal to 0.2 which was the rate constant for its frsvinnande). The lngsamma component r PSS lnadfrn the lngsammare deepwater process. However, we frdjupar us not into it.)
Alene ticked all the headline stereotypical victim-leftie boxes , her interests included christine milne, organic gardening and batik hangings and lets face it, Composta is a red flag, rather. So she wrote to Lewandowsky begging for advice in dealing with monster commenters from Bolt and Blair, and notably pointed to him surviving my scorn and ridicule:
A grotesque aspect of the malaria issue is that anyone who truly cares about this disease need not concern themselves with global warming. A world that cant rouse itself to do more about todays malaria victims surely has no business using theoretical, sometime-in-the-future victims as ammunition in the climate debate.
Hard cases make bad law, says the old maxim, meaning that a judge's sympathy for a particular party's predicament seduces him into twisting legal doctrine in ways that cause trouble in the future.
(h/t Lazarus at Steven Goddards Real Science )
Who populates these agencies? People with orthodox credentials of course. It helps a lot if they have published books or articles that favor and advance those views, or at least associate with influential organizations that do. Let?s call that the ?orthodox mainstream.? Then again, most of those books and articles wouldn?t have been published at all if the authors didn?t have good science credentials, right? They would need to have undertaken research that was published in respected journals.
Another way to implement the plan would be to use a state's voter registration rolls and pick five names at random as winners with the names announced after the election, but the prizes given only to those who actually voted. All it would take to send a powerful message to other non-voters is one example in an election where an individual was picked but lost a Corvette or $100,000 because he or she did not vote.
Another paper with a warm reception from the lukewarmers was published by Gillett et al. (in actuality, this paper was published during the first week of 2012, but was accepted for publication in late 2011, so I?ll go ahead and include it here). Gillett and colleagues used the character and evolution of the global average temperature from 1851 through 2010 to bend the output of a climate model to best fit reality (or at least reality as captured by the Hadley Centre/Climate Research Unit global average temperature compilation).
Gia urges the readers to study the relation between his statements and the weak gravity conjecture. What I find perhaps even more interesting is that Dvali's inequality may be understood as a lower bound on the amount of discrete symmetry in a theory of quantum gravity. If the argument is refined, it could also be used to explain why pure AdS3 gravity has to have the monster group symmetry .
Yes, you read that right the same Will Steffen who is the Labor governments Chief Alarmist, and who has already made up his mind and linked the Queensland floods to climate change (see here ). Kind of like the University of East Anglia investigating Climategate no, wait, they did. What hope is there for an impartial, balanced report? None. The people of Queensland deserve better.
China could opt for a more stringent greenhouse gas goal from 2016 if it found the costs of carbon cutting and energy saving fall and other big emitters also took steeper cuts, said Barbara Finamore, Director of the China Program at the Natural Resources Defense Council, a U.S. environmental group.
We soon moved to a location across from The Heritage Foundation, in a not-yet gentrified building with one large room, a bathroom, and a balcony overlooking Massachusetts Avenue. From that balcony I would solicit donors, harangue policy makers, market the media, and talk to passers by. All in all, not a bad way to start an organization.
The earth is now on the brink of entering another Ice Age, according to a large and compelling body of evidence from within the field of climate science. Many sources of data which provide our knowledge base of long-term climate change indicate that the warm, twelve thousand year-long Holocene period will rather soon be coming to an end, and then the earth will return to Ice Age conditions for the next 100,000 years.
De Blasio himself may owe his mayoralty to 1199, the only major union to back him during the Democratic mayoral primary. The 1199 endorsement was essential in catapulting de Blasio into contention for the nominationand the mayoralty. The union's 150-member executive council supported de Blasio in a unanimous vote. After being elected, de Blasio named current 1199 president George Gresham, a longtime friend, to his transition team.
A well-known theologian, policy analyst, scientist, and economist, united by their evangelical faith, respond to the Evangelical Climate Initiative's "Climate Change: An Evangelical Call to Action," which calls for evangelicals to speak out against global warming for ethical reasons. While the authors of this paper agree with their motive, they take issue with several assumptions the ECI makes regarding global warming science, and posit an equally concentrated effort aimed at developing economic growth in impoverished regions would be a far more noble cause than restricting global warming-causing greenhouse gas emissions.
You can explore the BoM data for NSW etc and that huge increase in rain about 1950 often stands out. But it is a feature that nobody wants to explain.
Any policies that shackle our ability to follow this new Europe-advised course will severely harm our nation's future and shackle blue-collar jobs, poor families and minority opportunities worst of all.
When looking at the temperature trends , it is clear that global warming has actually been missing for the last 15 years. This has definitely been the case of the continental U.S. as the graph on the left depicts.
We can not look particularly noticeable traces of the major volcanic eruptions Pinatubo in 1991, El Chichon in 1992 and Agnung 1963, suggesting that the cooling effects due to emissions of particles (aerosols) are modest, at least for these eruptions.This strengthens our claim in an earlier post that aerosols in climate models are exaggerated.
David Rothbard and Craig Rucker serve respectively as president and executive director of the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow.
I find it difficult to describe either Sir Humphry or the castle, so let me start with the castle, it has hundreds of rooms, so its less complex than he is. Chillingham Castle started out life somewhere around the year dot as four watchtowers with a fence connecting them. Then at some point the towers were connected with stone walls to make a palace for a visiting Scottish King. It had always belonged to the Grey family line since that same year dot, but was abandoned in 1932. Heres the castle, and a resplendent Sir Humphry in formal hunting attire:
Nowack et al . (2014) write that "state-of-the-art climate models now include more climate processes simulated at higher spatial resolution than ever," but they state that "some processes, such as atmospheric chemical feedbacks, are still computationally expensive," and they say they are therefore "often ignored in climate simulations," citing the studies of Taylor et al . (2012) and Kravitz et al . (2013).
Growth skepticism means giving up on the possibility of overcoming economic problems, including burgeoning fiscal deficits, through growth rather than austerity. In Europe the talk has already shifted to curbing consumption rather than raising output. It looks likely that America will follow shortly.
For the second time this year, Hawaii has experienced a spectacular electric show. In late February we saw nearly 21,000 lightning strikes in a five-hour window when a storm system stalled over Hawaii.
But NSIDC seems to be thinking differently in their March 3, 2010 newsletter . They say Antarctica is cooling and sea ice is increasing (makes sense ??? ice is associated with cold.)
Meanwhile, scientists who don't agree with the "leaders" are accused, by the likes of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., of "treason." He wants them "in jail."
"American college students are hooked on cellphones, social media and the Internet and showing symptoms similar to drug and alcohol addictions, according to a new study."Google loses autocomplete defamation case in Italy:
The EU summit signalled Europe intended to restore its declining competitiveness by supporting the development of cheap energy, including shale gas, while cutting green energy subsidies.
Arizona GOP Gov. Jan Brewer claimed recently that law enforcement has been finding beheaded bodies in the desert " but local agencies say they've never encountered such a case.
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United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, September 27, 2015
Of course, this independence is required by the special theory of relativity. If \(x,y\) are space-like-separated points in your spacetime, the question "which of them is earlier" depends on the inertial system. In some reference frames, we may have \(x^0 \lt y^0\). In others, we will have \(x'^0 \gt y'^0\). So the physical results mustn't depend on questions how we order \(\Phi(x)\) and \(\Phi(y)\) in the products: there's no God-given ordering and quantum field theory must be able to yield some expectation values of the product in a given spacetime without any reference to a particular inertial system.
The multi-decadal climate models are intended to provide information as to what are the plausible changes. However, in my view there is no need (and much added expense) to use the models to create changed climatology when these models have never demonstrated skill in the predictionfor the past decadesof changes in regional climatology . Thus, the large expense being applied, as illustrated in my post on the Mote et al 2011 EOS article , is not justified.
OK, I was tooling around looking into the Degree Days on the west coast (due to the complete lack of things to harvest from my way too late garden Well, I did get one small yellow squash that made a side dish for two people. For mid-July in Coastal California that is just crazy. Ive also got a handful of Dragons Tongue beans, but Im running them to seed and it ought to be a colander full but I digress. It just isnt what it ought to be as its been darned cold at night and not very warm mid-day.)
This disagreement goes to the heart of many current political issues and explains much about why people disagree about environmental policy. In the climate debate, for example, pessimists see a limit to the atmosphere's capacity to cope with extra carbon dioxide without rapid warming. So a continuing increase in emissions if economic growth continues will eventually accelerate warming to dangerous rates. But optimists see economic growth leading to technological change that would result in the use of lower-carbon energy. That would allow warming to level off long before it does much harm.
Where Jim Hessells piece comes off the rails is in his assumption that increased CO2 is a proven threat. CO2 causes global warming, and more of it will cause a small fraction more, but theres no sound evidence that increased CO2 is a hazard.
In all of the discussions of the global warming hiatus in AR5, the IPCC starts the hiatus period in 1998, limiting the hiatus period to the last 15 years. They also limit the presentation to the data and models that represent the combined global land surface air plus sea surface temperatures. This discussion shows that the hiatus period has lasted much longer than 15 years in some ocean basins.
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Ive been gone for a while working on other things. MikeN called my attention to a criticism by Jim Bouldin, of my probing of the hockey stick CPS methods. Since the Air Vent wouldnt even be a climate blog, if it werent for Mann 08, it does seem important to address the criticisms by Jim. As it is my blog, the cool thing is that I can shove comments right in the middle of his criticisms to point out the issues of disagreement.
A reviewer should be sensitive even to the appearance of a conflict of interest when the manuscript under review is closely related to the reviewers work in progress or published. If in doubt, the reviewer should indicate the potential conflict promptly to the editor.
To describe carbon dioxide as a lethal air pollutant is an irresponsible lie it is surprising to see such rubbish in print. Carbon dioxide is the most important and essential atmospheric plant food, without which there would be no plants, no herbivores (which live on plants), and no carnivores (which live on herbivores).
CNN Anchor: "Every time we see a storm like this lately, the first question to pop into a lot of people's minds is whether or not global warming is to blame? I'll talk to Bill Nye, "the science guy,' about devastating storms & climate change'
Let us have a truly Happy New Year, where we rout the Warmists with their phoney science.
Windows Intune hits the street March 23:
The article contains the statement with respect to the top-down global climate model predictions that
What's more, if EPA does believe the Clean Air Act provides authority for a GHG early credit program, it is the first early credit advocate to do so. Consider the subtitle of Lieberman's first stand-alone early credit bill, S. 2167, the "Early Voluntary Reductions Act," introduced in the 105th Congress: "To amend the Clean Air Act to authorize the President to enter into agreements to provide regulatory credit for voluntary early action to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions" (emphasis added).
New evidence casts doubt on global warming
The wind is free ... but everything else costs money.