Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
A commentary that accompanies the study notes that, "The warming of the 20th century is seen more clearly as a continuation of a trend that began at the start of the 19th century, not the early 20th." It also notes that, "the curve of Esper et al. provides evidence for greater climate variability in the last 1000 years than has yet been generally accepted."
The first conclusion is that as is not uncommon with sea level records, nearby tide gauges give very different changes in sea level. In this case, the Wilmington rise is 2.0 mm per year, while the Hampton Roads rise is more than twice that, 4.5 mm per year. In addition, the much shorter satellite records show only half a mm per year average rise for the last twenty years.
Nor, despite Mr. Paulson's claims, is there much reason to think that adopting a U.S. carbon tax would cause Beijing to do the same. China's Communist Party, after all, flouts Western norms on human rights, on intellectual property, and even on market-based exchange rates. Why should climate be different? To the contrary, that high Party officials are extracting fortunes from the massively polluting state owned enterprises would seem to cast an especially dark shadow of doubt over hopes for change in this area. Yet Mr. Paulson, a self-proclaimed expert on avoiding needless risks, urges the United States to incur the costs of a carbon tax based mainly on the rather far-fetched hope that it will induce Beijing to change its behavior.
This piece originally appeared in National Review Online.
DC to offer Internet gambling, becomes first in US:
A leading House GOP member on nuclear issues said Wednesday that Senate nuclear waste management legislation that does not identify Yucca Mountain as a permanent repository will not pass the House.
In investigating this possibility, Yoon et al . grew plantlets of Phalaenopsis "Amaglade" -- a monopodial epiphytic CAM orchid with succulent leaves -- derived from flower stalk cultures and multiplied on a hyponex medium either with or without the addition of 30 g sugar per liter of medium, in air of either 400 or 1000 ppm CO 2 , for a period of 90 days in vitro followed by 40 days ex vitro , in order "to identify the more suitable treatments in vitro for the best acclimatization of Phalaenopsis plantlets to ex vitro conditions," which they did by monitoring a number of plant morphological traits, photosynthetic attributes and intrinsic elements of the CAM pathway. What was learned
Cut allowable SO2 emissions by 73 percent, from 11 million tons currently to 4.5 million tons in 2010, and 3 million tons in 2018.
The House-passed energy and climate bill remains moribund in the Senate. EPA is trying to regulate carbon dioxide in the absence of congressional action based on its assertion that automotive, power plant and factory CO2 emissions "endanger human health and welfare." However, Texas refuses to knuckle under, other states may likewise balk, and the next Congress could overturn the "endangerment" finding and bar EPA from rewriting the Clean Air Act and implementing its job-killing rules.
While ACESA would be more efficient without its regulatory provisions, the design of the cap-and-trade program is also troubling. Namely, the emission reductions are more stringent and faster than most economic analysis recommends.
Enforcement of EPA's reinterpretation of NSR has discouraged modifications that, had they been allowed to proceed, would have been economically and/or environmentally beneficial and would not have increased emissions.
If Andrew Weaver is heading for the exits, its a pretty sure sign that the United Nations agency is under monumental stress.
Solar forcing based on these modern reconstructions is 1 - 2.6 times higher than the alleged forcing from increased greenhouse gases during the 20th century. In addition, climate models do not consider any of the multiple solaramplificationmechanisms which have been described in the literature. Thus, the IPCC and others dismiss the role of the Sun in climate by conveniently assuming solar activity changed 5 - 13 times less than the research indicates.
Not every idea advanced at the summit was bad-participants talked about the need to simplify regulations, improve American tax competitiveness, and increase openness of foreign markets. Even President Obama admitted that "true economic recovery is only going to come from the private sector." But if Obama realizes the private sector must lead the recovery, why is he proposing to burden it with more taxes, more government spending, and more regulation? True economic recovery will only come when the Administration realizes that regulation does not create jobs.
The term carbon emissions really refers to emissions of carbon dioxide gas but carbon and carbon dioxide are two totally different things. Carbon is a solid (think coal and charcoal) and the central building block of hydrocarbons, whereas carbon dioxide is the gas that all humans and animals exhale and all plants require to grow. Without carbon dioxide, all life on Earth would cease.
(Climate Change Skeptics (also known as morons) are people who dont believe in science purely because they a) cant bear to admit they couldnt see it coming or may have contributed to it b) dont care because they assume by the time the real catastrophe happens theyll be old, dead or rich enough to buy their way out and or c) refuse to accept the evidence because if they do they will have to admit that it God doesnt exist. Because if God existed wouldnt we be special enough for him to spare us?)
I then followed up immediately with working on her account, in Sacramento, CA.
Under normal circumstances, someone who started a campaign called Trees Have Rights Too in order to convince the United Nations to adopt a Universal Declaration of Planetary Rights, based on the idea that ?we are all one, life is sacred and love is all?, might reasonably be suspected of being an LSD-tripping hippy.
A version of this article first appeared in Forbes Online.
OUTGOING LONGWAVE RADIATION (EMITTED INFRARED RADIATION) AT TOA
The six Malaysian scientists conclude that "collectively, the enhancement in yield and quality provides an economic motivation to produce a consistent pharmaceutical-grade product for commercial purposes," via what they describe as "controlled environment plant production." And it also stands to reason that the ongoing rise in the atmosphere's CO 2 concentration should gradually increase the medicinal potency of C. asiatica plants either growing wild or cultivated out-of-doors.
Die Zeit describes the first time Michael Mann met Marc Morano, having no idea who he was. Today when Mann thinks back at this first encounter, he has to take a deep breath. Now hes knows who Marc Morano is .
The ABC's idea of balanced debate on climate change
By providing energy flows of high power density, fossil fuels and electricity made it possible to embark on a large-scale industrialization creating a predominantly urban civilization with unprecedented levels of economic growth reflected in better health, greater social opportunities, higher disposable incomes, expanded transportation and an overwhelming flow of information.
JC comment: the possibility that multidecadal natural variability is a major driver of rainfall variability does not seem to be considered. The poor performance of the climate models somehow gives rise to greater alarm about the future. Go figure.
Pea-size hail and dangerous lighting were possible, along with gusty winds and brief periods of heavy rainfall.
"Economically significant" is the bureau-speak description for rules costing at least $100 million per year. There are 180 of such rules in the 2008 Register, up 13 percent from 2007which was itself up 14 percent from 2006.
The penny is fast dropping that by far the most disastrous appointment made by David Cameron to his Coalition Cabinet was that of the ultra-green, Lib Dem millionaire Chris Huhne as our Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change.
Unlike the global marching army of climate researchers the IPCC has enlisted, we do not walk in lockstep. We are willing to admit, ?we don?t really know?, rather than mislead people with phrases like, ?the warming we see is consistent with an increase in CO2?, and then have the public think that means, ?we have determined, through our extensive research into all the possibilities, that the warming cannot be due to anything but CO2?.
~Meanwhile, back on Planet Earth, the divergence between the climate models and reality is ever greater . In other news, it may not all be the fault of your carbon footprint :
Yes, it is a whole new world when it comes to the "Climate Debate" and the Canadian Senate has reflected this sea change by striking down a bill that in the words of Prime Minister Stephen Harper, "sets irresponsible targets, does not lay out any measure of achieving them, other than by shutting down sections of the Canadian economy and throwing hundreds of thousands and possibly millions of people out of work."
On the other hand, on immigration, President Bush has followed the Roosevelt approach, turning about-face on the border fence and ordering raids onmeat-packing factories that employ illegal aliens. Yet this has not helped him either: Immigration skeptics still do not trust him on the issue, but neither do Hispanic voters. And his overall poll numbers have not even twitched in response.
Obama can't afford to oppose this commonsense measure.
Chevy Recalls Cruze After A Steering Wheel Falls Off:
There is a long-term warming trend with or without La Nina.
It has been 15 years since leading British experts announced the demise of snow.
The principle, therefore, is that if the national government (or, a fortiori, the government of a State or Territory) takes over a person's land, it must pay just compensation, or else.
Indeed, satellites show that Earths total vegetation increased 6% just from 1982 to 1999, as CO 2 levels increased. Famines in a CO 2 -warmed tomorrow are therefore less likely, not more.
That's a tiny fraction of the wind turbines' "rated capacity." But it is a situation commonly faced with turbines on freezing Minnesota winter nights and sweltering Texas summer afternoons, when they average a measly 10% of the electricity output their subsidy-hungry backers say they are capable of.
While the UN was sinking in global parochialism, NATO has gone global geographically (50,000 troops deployed now on three continents) and functionally (broadening of political consultations in the NAC). It is also beginning to go global in its cooperation with non-Atlantic partners like Japan to Australia.
Carbon dioxide gas is NOT a pollutant, but a harmless and vital gas which trees and plants fix by the process of photosynthesis and liberate oxygen to the atmosphere. We humans and all animals need this oxygen to breath and survive. Atmospheric carbon dioxide is recycled naturally, as a plant nutrient, by rock weathering and by being absorbed in the oceans which cover 70% of the Earths surface. So dont blame carbon dioxide for climate change!
"Gary Weeks' balanced approach to budget is far from balanced. He and SEIU worked this out together."
US Police increasingly peeping at email, instant messages:
He was right to be embarrassed. Climate change is already hurting and, unchecked, will turn into a catastrophe. Economists use what is called a discount rate to compare income and welfare in the future with income and welfare today. If we forgo just a little welfare today through burning less fossil fuel, even applying a modest discount rate, we can guarantee that there will be no catastrophic loss of welfare in 2050. This is exactly the same argument that Ferguson, Osborne et al use in reverse when asking us to accept austerity today for the joy of being free of public debt in decades to come. But it is not OK to use it for climate change.
We owe the Heartland Institute, a free market think tank, a debt of gratitude for the eight international conferences it has held to debunk global warming. Joseph Bast, its president and CEO, has said: "The toll our EPA is taking on the country is staggering, putting hundreds of thousands of Americans out of work at a time when millions of people are unemployed and our reliance on foreign sources of energy threatens to compromise our nation's security."
Clearly, G.W. Bush's environmental executive agreements provide no precedent for Obama's plan to adopt "the most ambitious climate change agreement in history" without obtaining the Senate's advice and consent.
Ian Marchant, chief executive of Scottish-based utility, says government must invest more money in CCS technology
The longer-term record shows global temperatures have hardly risen for about 15 years. But Dr Stott said the key point was that they had remained consistently above the long-term average. ( source )
What could explain the lack of interest in verifying a dated computer forecast? After all, computer forecasts are the basis for the current alarm. Did people perhaps decide that a 16-year-old forecast had to have been based on inferior methods?
So Santers messages to Jones and others at UEA were not private or personal correspondence. If he wanted them to be, he should not have used his llnl.gov email account with his official LLNL affiliation in the signature line. He should know better, since LLNL makes clear those distinctions . But if he did want to communicate with Jones on that level, I doubt he could have conducted official government business such as discussion of climate data on a Google account. That would have been evading public scrutiny. A Santer-Jones Google exchange would have had to been about the merits of U.S. vs. European football or something like that.
That's because the snow plows picked up virtually everything in their paths, which prevented them from simply depositing all that winter snow into the harbor. Ton after ton was moved from the city streets of Boston to this snow farm, where piles towered over 20 feet. It was one of seven such piles scattered throughout the city and this one still has snow left on it.
But looming in the background, Shlaes thinks, was the European war, and the Republicans' latent isolationism diluted their appeal. Although Willkie was an internationalist, FDR was a more convincing one. "As leaders and oppositions since have discovered," Shlaes writes, "war trumps everythingeconomics as well as politics." In the absence of the specter in Europe, Shlaes thinks Willkie might have defeated Roosevelt. Shlaes's judgment about Willkie and the 1940 election is probably correct, but it is the only thinly argued part of The Forgotten Man. To complete this account, more needs to be said about the cognitive dissonance that characterizes public opinion toward America's global involvement. (FDR, for example, was quietly consulting pollsters during this time to determine how far he could go with his European policy.)
Folks wanting to do even more can set up a Virtual Machine and play with it (not too hard, but needs decent real hardware or its slow):
In fact, the baneful state of contemporary American society might seem to be no accident at all, as it keeps the productive class in line through threats from above (impoverishment, prison, and family breakups, all of which governments have shown themselves quite willing to inflict) and below (by crime and social disorder) and bought off with cheap pleasures. It's a regime that combines the worst elements of the dystopias in 1984, Brave New World, and A Clockwork Orange.
It certainly is not in line with what one would call reasoned debate, Kenneth Haapala, executive vice president of the Science & Environmental Policy Project, said of Heartlands short-lived marketing campaign. Id much prefer to stick to reasoned argument. But Heartland is doing a good job. Whether this was the best thing to do, I cant assess that.
Each point is an orbital subtraction calculation of the mean anomalies of four planets Jupiter, Mars, Earth and Venus, taken on the 1st of January every two years from 1900-2012..
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The public think political decisions concerning climate are based on scientific predictions. This is untrue: what the politicians get from IPCC and CSIRO are projections based on models. Models depend on assumptions, what you put in (data), the program, and conclusions drawn from the output.
Sound Science And The U.S. Economy Victimized By The EPA's CIA Fake, John Beale
Ah, but you won't have to wait nearly as long for the higher cost of energy to be passed on to all Americans. And not just in the form of higher utility bills (which are already bad enough), but in the cost of nearly everything. After all, the businesses that you use will be facing higher bills, too. That increase will be paid by you as well.
So how do we get 1/2 of the present value when it was warm enough to melt Antarctica (while today Antarctic ice is growing)?
NW Washington Gets Hit Again...and an Unusual Low
As disturbing as such thuggery from state attorneys general would be in any case, the premise of the subpoena is faulty. The Competitive Enterprise Institute did not cast doubt on the dubious climate science. The actual data cast the doubt. The think tank and others have simply pointed out what the data show.
When it was Mr. Hamm's turn to talk briefly with President Obama, "I told him of the revolution in the oil and gas industry and how we have the capacity to produce enough oil to enable America to replace OPEC. I wanted to make sure he knew about this."
And in fact, a plain reading of two of the key studies that the White House and EPA deadlocked on is quite revealing. Far from being a settled matter, as environmental activists claim, both reportseven the one that the White House did not favorare quite clear about the extent of the remaining uncertainty, and the importance of focusing on that uncertainty rather than disguising it.
Bangladeshs problem is primarily one of population a very large and growing population with demands to feed more and more people places more people in the most flood vulnerable regions (also most fertile)as they attempt to eke more productivity out of their limited land.
Moreover, most of Britain's older coal-fired and nuclear power plants are scheduled to be shut down, with almost nothing to replace them, even as electricity demand rises. That could bring widespread blackouts, said the Daily Mail, and cause hundreds of thousands of UK jobs to be outsourced to countries where energy costs are much lower, and air pollution and carbon dioxide emission standards far less stringent. That will hardly improve England's economy or global environmental quality.
Here is a chart similar to the one used by Al Gore in The Inconvenient Truth showing a correlation between estimated global average temperature of the atmosphere at the surface and CO 2 concentrations during the most recent glacial and interglacial periods, over the past 400,000 years. As is well known, Gore misrepresented this data in his film, claiming incorrectly that it supported the hypothesis that atmospheric CO 2 concentration causes temperature changes. The changes in CO 2 concentrations actually follow the temperature changes by about 800 years, not the other way round, which is most likely to be explained by the fact that less CO 2 is dissolved in the oceans the higher their temperature, so called ocean outgassing.
What with the current mania for carbon offsets, I should have known it would happen eventually. In addition to the already burgeoning crowd of environmental outfits specializing in questionable science and creative economics, the ranks of carbon offset vendors has been joined by...the U.S. government. Thats right, fellow citizens, the U.S. Forest Service is now in the "voluntary" offset business. Just calculate your carbon footprint online and they'll quote you the price for your personalized indulgence, er, offset. My roughly calculated tab comes to $44.40 a year.
There also hasn't been an increase in the number of stormy seasons. Pre-1928, there were nine years with three or more hurricanes compared to only five years with three or more hurricanes post-1928.
I heard President Obama on the radio talking about the epidemic of school shootings by psychotic young men armed with knives, guns, cars and explosives. He said he would even be willing to talk to sportsmen about the problem
Then at BBC on Dec 5 , where the IPCC WG2 author denied any problem:
I dont believe that the worlds present population is sustainable if there are more than three years like 1972 in a row.
But it's not that simple. The EPA is part of the executive branch of government, and it is unconstitutional for the executive to legislate. The EPA's attempt to alter the text of the Clean Air Act seems to fly in the face of the separation of powers, one of America's founding political principles. There will be lawsuits, and if the courts rule that the EPA overreached, the American economy will become subject to an unprecedented regulatory onslaught.
CEI: Any thought that down the road you could be the right-wing Ralph Nader?
Olle Hggstrm have 2015-05-09 via Twingly in the right hand column lnkat hit with a blogginlgg entitled The vile debate grip SLAPP. This is part of a frtalskampanj he conducts. His reasoning is lax because SLAPP is a legal freteelse as frekommer in the United States but that hardly is mjlig in Sweden. Swedish frtalslagstiftning prioritize freedom of expression, and makes it hard for the frtalade to pursue legal process. There will of course nd more difficult for a frtalad person who is ttiorig pensionr. S, the Swedish legislation is output has been primarily regarded as a moral ledstjrna.
In addition, as is well known, prompt policy action (by cutting emissions of greenhouse gases in accord with the Kyoto Protocol) would lower the calculated temperature rise by 2050 by at most a tiny one-thirtieth of a degree C ??? too small to even measure.
Eelgrass meadows grow in shallow coastal waters and are among the most productive ecosystems in the sea. These meadows are now threatened, not only by climate change but also by overfishing and eutrophication.
8) And Finally: Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past The Independent, 20 March 2000
The previous administration, of course, did not ratify Kyoto. But one of Kevin Rudd's first acts as Prime Minister was to grandstand at a UN climate junket in Bali two years ago and turn his signature to the Kyoto Protocol into a gruesome, gibbering publicity stunt.
Each of modern rationales for energy subsidies that have proposed over the decades, suffers from fundamental analytic weaknesses that should discredit them and the subsidies that result from them. These rationales include: the need for energy "independence;" the need to support infant industries; the need to level the subsidy playing field; harmful enviromental impacts from conventional generation; fears of resource depletion or "sustainability;" the creation of jobs by expanding "green" energy use; and the harms flowing from climate change due to fossil fuel use or the "social cost of carbon" argument. Each of these rationales fail and the subsidies created to meet the stated goals have stifled innovation, slowed economic growth, resulted distorted investment decisions and limited job creation, and did not improve the environment.
2) The Decreasing Population Bias in Tornado Reports across the Central Plains by James B. Elsner and Laura E. Michaels
The fertilisation effect occurs where elevated CO 2 enables a leaf during photosynthesis, the process by which green plants convert sunlight into sugar, to extract more carbon from the air or lose less water to the air, or both.
What do observational analyses tell us? Observational analyses can implicitly include the effects that are ignored by climate models. Here is one paper that suggests a significantly larger role for solar forcing:
If BACT does not require fuel-switching, we should have no reason to expect that NSPS would require fuel switching or redefine the source to impose identical CO2 control requirements on coal boilers and on gas turbines. Is that correct?
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