Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
Dr. Gilbert Ross, longtime medical director of ACSH, said Whelan "was a trailblazer, taking on the establishment as a young woman and throughout her life, forcefully but always politely educating anyone of any position on the precepts of sound science, calling out agenda, ideology, and hypocrisy posing as science."
That group is headed by Congressional energy heavyweights Rep. Ed Markey (D-Ma), poised to succeed John Kerry as senator if the current Massachusetts senator is approved as Secretary of State; Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Ca), the ranking member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee; and Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Or), the presumptive new head of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
(Excerpts) ??? Antarctic sea ice reached record high levels this year. Antarctic sea ice extent broke 20 million kilometers for the first time since satellite recordings began.
None of these hard realities seems to bother President Obama, though. In fact, he is determined to use the December climate conference in Paris to lock the United States into binding treaty commitments to slash the common folks fossil fuel use, CO2 emissions, economic growth and job creation even further.
Tuesday, November 23, 2010 at 07:01:06 PM at epicenter
Heartland Replies To Matthew England's Ugly and Dishonest Essay
Arguments put forward to support ethanol and other biofuels hold water like sieves leaking billions of gallons of precious fresh water that are required to produce this expensive, unsustainable energy.
The author of yesterday's story, "In Northern France, Warming Presses Fall Grape Harvest Into Summertime," apparently missed the prior story, and gets front-page treatment in the process to go on about the horrors confronting vintners:
This tallies with what Richard Betts has said in the past, namely that modellers are using the "known unknowns" to get the model into the right climatic ballpark, but not to wiggle-match. However, I'm not sure that users of climate models can place much reliance on them when there is this clear admission that the models are nudged or fudged so that they look "reasonable".
Such predictions should prove crucial to American policymakers and energy producers, many of whom have pledged to make wind energy 20 percent of America??s total energy production by 2030. Currently only about 2 percent of American energy comes from wind.
From Rwanda and Liberia to the Sudan and Uganda, we see every day the horrible effects of war crippled men, widowed women, orphaned children, and frail old people, without hands and legs, with slash marks all over their bodies. They struggle as scavengers, collapse and perish from hunger and disease, while politicians get rich.
Although the A123 bankruptcy was the most obvious example of Obama's failed foray into the car business, Romney could have pointed to a number of other reports over the past few weeks to make the same, obvious point: the Obama administration should not be picking winners in the hypercompetitive business of making and selling automobiles.
Meet the skeptics at CFACT's COP16 press conference Monckon, Spencer & Rothbard on Climate Science & Policy
Human ingenuity keeps finding more oil and gas but we are close to running out of IP addresses , at least in the old IPv4 system, which all of your are probably using right now. This does not mean the world will shut down - already, for example, all the computers in your home probably share a single IP address to the outside world, and for many of you that IP address is dynamically assigned by your Internet provider to further save addresses. Many web sites on the same server will share an IP address (which is actually a good reason not to used shared hosting, because if one of the other accounts on your server is a bad actor, your IP address can effectively get banned from sites and networks trying to ban that other person on your server).
One reason this cannot be contemplated is that it would involve giving up the urgent sense of crisis that still fuels too much of the environmental movement. This is leading to the slow trivialization and marginalization of environmentalism as a general public concern. Serious environmentaliststhe laboratory scientists, field biologists, and local conservationists doing the nitty-gritty and uncelebrated work to solve environmental problems one at a timeshould not stand for this cheap grandstanding. It may be, as WRI's Allan Hammond says, that "no serious environmental institution subscribes today" to Ehrlich-Speth-Limits to Growth doomsaying, but if so why do most environmental leaders decline to rebuke this kind of sensationalism and the diminishing effect it has on taking environmental problems seriously?
So that is what we would achieve if we stop the use of all gasoline-powered vehicles in America and if we replace them with a system producing no carbon dioxide.
EPA has behaved in a similar fashion concerning the RMR&R; exclusion. After approving an expansive interpretation of the exclusion by state permitting agencies for the better part of two decades, in 1999 EPA claimed to be shocked to find some companies "have tried to extend it to activities that are infrequently performed in the industry, alter the design or function of the equipment, or involve a significant capital cost . ..."32
Here is a corresponding plot for the RSS T2 data. In this case, observations are about halfway between zero and the ensemble mean trend. If someone wishes to argue (a la Santer, Schmidt) that there is no statistically significant difference between observations and the ensemble mean, then they are also obliged to concede that there is no statistically significant difference between observations and zero trend even for RSS TMT.
Australias ABC News gets rather carried away and headlines with Global warming to cause mass extinction: report
Tide gauge data for the 20th century indicates that the average sea level rise rate was 1.8 mm/year. Satellite data from 1993 to present indicates a sea level rise rate of about 3 mm/year. This is part 3 of a series of posts looking for the acceleration necessary to reconcile those two facts
Michael Moore Propaganda Too Much Even for Castro
John didnt grow rice during the recent drought because while he had a water licence, he didnt have a water allocation.
We won't spend hours watching the World Cup or the Olympics because they aren't happening in 2015. Most of us won't spend Tuesday, Nov. 3, waiting for election returns, although citizens of Kentucky, Mississippi and Louisiana will elect governors and state representatives, and Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel will find out if he has won reelection.
On Earth Day in 2010, Paul Rubin, economics professor at Emory University, wrote an article in the WSJ titled "Environmentalism as Religion: While people have worshipped many things, we may be the first to build shrines to garbage," here's an excerpt:
One such is George Monbiot, a scribbler for the British Marxist daily propaganda sheet, The Guardian. What is Monbiot's qualification to write about climate science? Well, like Abraham, he is a "scientist". Trouble is, he's a fourteenth-rate zoologist, so his specialization has even less to do with climate science than that of Abraham, who nevertheless presents himself as having scientific knowledge relevant "in the area".
For Delaware Democrat Chris Coons, it's fitting that Election Day comes two days after Halloween, running as he is against that sometime dabbler in witchcraft, Christine O'Donnell. For hundreds of his partisan brothers and sisters, however, another holiday reference is more appropriate: Mexico's Day of the Dead. Today, our neighbors to the south will begin celebrating the memories of their deceased family and friends. Tomorrow, our neighbors to the left will mourn the demise of hundreds of candidates whose careers will be consigned to the political graveyard, few of which will rise to take bodily form again.
Castro's government apparently went on to ban the film because, the leaked cable claims, it "knows the film is a myth and does not want to risk a popular backlash by showing to Cubans facilities that are clearly not available to the vast majority of them."
At least since the energy crisis of the early 1970s, the United States has wrestled with the difficult question of how best to ensure an adequate energy supply while protecting the environment. Today, this question continues to play a role in our political debates. Whether and how public policy might reduce reliance on imported oil, encourage lower-emission vehicles, or spur the development of new or cleaner sources of power are all regular matters of public discussion and concern.
There are no perfect ways to measure indirect energy use. Some use greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions as a proxy, but this is far from ideal because different forms of energy are more or less GHG-intensive. Still, even a weak measurement is better than no measurement, and the GHG approach is a useful concept of which scientists and environmentalists lately have been taking note. For instance, the U.S. Green Building Council, which certifies buildings as "green" under its Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design rating system, has been discussing how to take into account the embodied energy of building materials in its rating system.
NCDC has turned Marylands sixth coldest January-July into the 36th coldest, through a spectacular hockey stick ofadjustments.
In the meantime, theres a danger the shift is not only a step back in market delivery but in technology.
Americans have reason to be optimistic about the nation's environmental progress and its future health, according to the Index of Leading Environmental Indicators, released by the Pacific Research Institute (PRI) and the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). This tenth anniversary edition of the Index reveals that environmental quality continues to improve in many key areas, including air pollution, mercury emissions, wetlands, and forestlands.
For example, growth is generally limited in high latitudes by temperature and in deserts by water. But regional limitations can very in their degree of impact on growth throughout the growing season.
It is true that technologies known as fracking and horizontal drilling have made available huge reserves of natural gas and oil that previously eluded the drill bit. It is also true that inexpensive natural gas is giving foreign petrochemical companies and other companies that rely on that fuel an incentive to invest large sums in the United States, and that several American companies are finding the combination of relatively cheap energy and rising labor costs in Asia so attractive that we are seeing some "on-shoring" of production facilities, although whether this trend will prove to be as significant as on-shoring enthusiasts are predicting is not certain.
Unfortunately for Hansen and McKibben as with so many previous prophets of the end of the world, reality isn't cooperating with their chiliastic fantasies. Atmospheric concentrations of CO2 have increased by 4 per cent since the Kyoto Protocol was negotiated in 1997, but the global mean temperature has been flat since 1999. What they must have are some big disasters -- and soon.
Pollution was unchecked and mostly unthought-of. Sewage was considered treated if dumped in a river. Personal hygiene was practiced, when at all, on the face, neck, and hands up to the wrists. One thing everybody forgets about old times is how the old-timers smelled.
Pat??s Comment : The simple GHG-induced temperature projection goes right through the middle of the pack of GCM simulations, and closely tracks the GCM average. As the average of GCM projections is typically accounted to more accurately follow measured climate trends, the same criterion indicates that the simple GHG projection is more accurate than any of the GCM projections. It seems lots of money spent hasn??t gotten us much. One other thing of serious note: It is now obvious that GCM modelers assume that the only element driving net climate change is the level of GHG gasses in the atmosphere. This seems extraordinarily nae, physically.
Furthermore, were nowhere near the peak reached by the interglacial of 125,000 years ago, when temperatures were 1-3C higher than today and sea levels up to 20 feet higher, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change itself. In other words, the Globe might as well have had a headline reading Signs of changing weather unmistakable.
Moreover, there is good research suggesting that conflict in Dafur had nothing to do with climate change.
Heath Hickory: I dont know, Molly, Im not really into that whole Earth Day thing. Whats it about?
A lot of theories are being floated for what exactly caused the collapse of the I-35W bridge in Minneapolis. The real answer, of course, should have been clear all along: global warming. At least that's what the Center for American Progress is telling us.
This week, I turn to the topic of workers comp. insurance. Never in 2 years at one of the more storied business schools in the nation, nor in nearly 20 years at the largest corporations in the world, did I once encounter the topic of workers comp. Now, since I bought my own business, I spend inordinate amounts of time dealing with it.
But there was one player that the White House doesn't seem to have fully taken into account: Vladimir Putin. It's doubtful that at this point President Obama retains many of the optimistic illusions that marked the early stages of his Russia policy: the naive hopes that Medvedev might offer a serious alternative to Putin, the belief that Putin was angry only because of errors on our part, the belief that he is a geopolitical bumbler whose serial errors would soon trip him up. Those mists and fogs have (finally, after many lost months and years) burned away, but the White House may not yet understand the degree to which humiliating President Obama and making him look weak has become a principle driver of Russian policy.
Chris de Freitas , Associate Professor, School of Geography, Geology and Environmental Science, University of Auckland : There is evidence of global warming. But warming does not confirm that carbon dioxide is causing it. Climate is always warming or cooling. There are natural variability theories of warming. To support the argument that carbon dioxide is causing it, the evidence would have to distinguish between human-caused and natural warming. This has not been done.
For this reason, environmental decisions in the face of scientific uncertainty must be understood to raise a mixture of ethical and scientific questions. Yet, the scientific skeptics on global warming or those denying connections between tornadoes and climate change often speak as if it is irrational to talk about duties to reduce greenhouse gases until science is capable of proving with high levels of certainty what actual damages will be.
As the air's CO 2 content increases, it is likely that over-wintering strawberry plants will exhibit enhanced rates of photosynthesis and starch production, which will support more rapid and extensive growth in the spring. Such increases in carbohydrate availability at this critical time should allow strawberry plants in a CO 2 -enriched world to produce greater numbers of fruit per plant, thus increasing marketable berry yields.
By Geoff Brown, The Australian Climate Sceptics, Aug 11, 2015
Wealthy people who want a Tesla as their third or fourth vehicle can pay the full market price. And they should.
Baseless nonsense. The summer of 2012 didnt even rank in the top ten for daily record maximums. The summer of 1936 had more than five times as many record daily maximums as summer 2012.
around," as he told Joe the Plumber, even if there is less wealth to spread
Now lets examinethe climate change segment of Obamas inaugural speech :
Climate Disasters: New Baylor Study Explores How People Respond
The following are town hall meetings being organized by Vice President Gore's office and the White House Office on Science and Technology Policy to "examine the vulnerability of various regions of the US to climate variability and climate change and to aggregate information across regions to support a national scientific assessment:"
Since proving the validity of long-term forecasts is difficult and the ultimate tests would take years, and since many scientists are alarmed at the dire scenarios, my colleagues are beginning to talk about whether it is O.K. to exaggerate and push forecasts that are not currently provable if the only way to get societies to act is to frighten people. I think it is not O.K. It is a short-term view, and even if it works, it will inevitably debase science and scientists.
Australias antarctic runway melting | Walcha News
?We had a big drop in 2007, and since we?ve seen that decline continue,? Eicken said.
I downloaded the latest HadCRUT4 temperature and Mauna Loa CO2 data from Wood for Trees and global coffee bean production from FAOSTAT and it appears that coffee bean trees like warmer temperatures...
Not too mysteriously, manmade greenhouse gases have had little impact on two (overlapping) portions of the largest ocean on the planet.
Russia's representative at the G8 and chief economic adviser to President Vladimir Putin, Andrei Illarionov, attacked "Kyotism" in a speech in Moscow on February 19. According to the Moscow Times, Illarionov said, "I have called my speech 'The Return of Gosplan,'" . He went on, "But the proposed mechanism would decrease quotas year by year.... So it may be more correct to call it the return of the gulag."
We were sampling with the largest chain saws we could find a chain-saw bar of seven feet, he said. We were hauling these slabs of wood two meters on a side as far as two kilometers to the road. We were using wheeled litters the emergency rescue equipment for people and put a couple hundred pounds on them.
Postscript: I just finished reading the Royal Society assessment . Overall, I give it a much higher grade than the IPCC Summary for Policy Makers (SPM). I know about half of the scientists on the Working Group; they are absolutely top drawer. I dont disagree with anything they say for the first 7 pages. Then they characterize some statements as Aspects of climate change where there is a wide consensus but continuing debate and discussion. The wide consensus is not a good way of putting this, too bad they didnt have an Italian flag. A better way of saying it might have been our best judgement based upon current evidence and background knowledge and actually using the word uncertainty. The list of Aspects that are not well understood is far too skimpy. As a narrative, this makes much more sense than the IPCC SPM, and assesses a lower level of confidence, which is appropriate. Overall, I give it a B grade (compared to a C- for the IPCC SPM).
The slope is flat since November 1996 or 16 years and 11 months. (goes to September) RSS is 203/204 or 99.5% of the way to Ben Santers 17 years.
EPAs Particulate Matter Rule is Cargo Cult Science, Doctor States
I think that this is a useful way of looking at information on trends. (I doubt that 30 years is a relevant period to test for long-term persistence under fracdiff for example, theres been pretty much one PDO for the entire period, but have rendered it here as well for comparison.)
These interest groups define "progress" as ever-expanding laws, regulations, bureaucracies and power, to bring air and water emissions of every description down to zero, to prevent diseases that they attribute to manmade pollutants and forestall "dangerous manmade climate change." Achieving those goals requires controlling nearly every facet of our economy, industries, lives, livelihoods and living standards.
"I think there is a culture of obsessive political correctness" Now Tom Ricks asks some seriously, er, moderate questions at his Foreign Policy blog, "The Best Defense"... Another warning sign: Fort Hood gunman had told US military colleagues that infidels should have their throats cut ...
2) A 2006 study by a team of scientists led by Petr Chylek of Los Alamos National Laboratory, Space and Remote Sensing Sciences found the rate of warming in 1920-1930 was about 50% higher than that in 1995-2005, suggesting carbon dioxide could not be the cause of warming.
The recent admission that natural changes are responsible for the California drought was not news to some of us. What is news is that some pretty big research names that would be assumed to be part of the global warming bureaucracy are the ones now saying it.
Prevent excessively broad environmental review of coal export terminals. As the EPA makes it harder to use coal as a source of energy for electricity in the United States, there are opportunities to export coal to other nations. Removing excessive environmental reviews can help promote coal exports that will help keep coal jobs in the United States.
The ballot measure is one of many facing voters at the 2 November elections which have been sponsored by corporations exploiting a recent relaxation of funding rules by the US Supreme Court, which gave private firms the right to donate money (anonymously, if they want) to single-issue advocacy groups. That ruling has led to an explosion in the number of negative advertisements flooding the airwaves in this election season. A record $3bn will have been spent on adverts, most of which endorse right-wing causes, by the time that voters head to the polls in nine days' time.
To review the consequences of the EU's so-called "20-20-20" agenda, that calls for 20% emissions cuts, 20% more energy efficiency, and 20% renewables by 2020, as well as to obtain assurance that the targets will not be made more stringent (i.e., the emissions reduction target will not be raised up to 30% below 1990 levels);
On Christmas day the expedition radioed for help after the ship became trapped in this years tremendous Antarctic ice, which may set a record.
However, U.S. land-based surface temp. differences (NASA-GISS) = approx. zero
Renewable Energy Mandates will continue to failcosting us money and jobs
Later in his career, he would work on optimization; Pontryagin's minimum principle is behind the bang-bang control. But string theorists primarily know him because of his earlier work on algebraic and differential topology.
All of the above findings are of a positive nature. Crop growth was enhanced by the experimental doubling of the air's CO 2 content. There was no increase in the evolution of the greenhouse gas N 2 O from the soil. And the three Finnish researchers concluded that the high increase in the below-ground biomass indicates "enhanced photosynthate accumulation in the soil as a response to the increased CO 2 concentration." Reviewed 24 October 2007
Just as a brand new book further exposes the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) (whose scams I dissected here, and in more disturbing detail here), and on the heels of the weekend surprise of a 2005 memo showing President Obama's cooling/warming/population zealot of a "science czar" John Holdren is the kind of guy Mitt Romney turns to for developing his "environmental"' policies, we've exposed the Obama administration and IPCC have cooperated to subvert U.S. transparency laws, operating domestically out of Holdren's White House office.
Ive lived through a 7.x quake where lots of the place was out of action for about a week. (We all just pitched in an fixed it ourselves. We didnt bitch about the folks who were already working hard to fix things; we helped.)
Anders is having a discussion about Ed and Tamsins nature article on the pause in global warming.
The big trouble with your piece, Daniel, is that its overall theme that Heartland is in decline and has brought about its own downfall is simply not true. Or, to borrow from Mark Twain: Reports of Heartlands demise are greatly exaggerated.
Again and again, the data suggest, climate has impacted culture in dramatic ways. Unusually extreme and frequent shifts in weather patterns between 250 and 550, for example, coincided with a period of exceptional upheaval in Europes political and economic situations.