Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
It is a well-documented fact that more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere increases the efficiency of plant growth. As we burn fossil fuels and increase the trace levels of atmospheric CO2, our agriculture flourishes and produces more food with less water. (See The Many Benefits of Atmospheric CO2 Enrichment, Drs. Craig and Sherwood Idso, 2011, Vales Lake Publishing, LLC. )
U.S. federal policy on research misconduct defines plagiarism as follows:
On June 26, wind energy proponentsincluding pages of signatories who benefit financially from the tax creditsent a letter to the top Congressional leaders urging them to "support the immediate passage of the Expiring Provisions Improvement Reform and Efficiency (EXPIRE) Act."
This is well illustrated by their failure to properly consider the null hypothesis that global temperatures will not rise appreciably because of CO2emissions from industrial activity.
Throughout the past 420 millennia, comprising four interglacial periods, the Vostok record of atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration is imprinted with, and fully characterized by, the physics of the solubility of CO2 in water, along with the lag in the deep ocean circulation. Notwithstanding that carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas, atmospheric carbon dioxide has neither caused nor amplified global temperature increases.
Food prices are going up. Since the green revolution in the 1940s-1960s food prices have been going down, but now they are on an upward trend. There are two reasons for this, the first is grain-based ethanol and the second is that prosperity is catching up with more people in India and China.
So what's a non-scientist citizen, without the time to study the scientific details, to do? How is the ordinary citizen to distinguish, as Andrew Coyne puts it, "between genuine authority and mere received wisdom? Conversely, how do we tell crankish imperviousness to evidence from legitimate skepticism?" Are we obligated to trust whatever we're told is based on a scientific consensus unless we can study the science ourselves? When can you doubt a consensus? When should you doubt it?
Climate Astrology: Blizzard blamed on global warming?! Is there any weather event that is inconsistent with global warming? Climate Depot Round up
No, nearly every other nation has concluded it was a massive and very expensive fraud. That is why the forthcoming UN conference is going to implode. Policy makers are trying to extricate themselves from the useless solar and wind projects to which billions were committed. As soon as Obama is out of office and the Environmental Protection Agency is scaled back to its original 1970 objectives we can begin to attend to the rebuilding of the nations economy.
Climate models only have validity if they are verified, but as Vincent Gray pointed out originally and more recently this has never been done with IPCC models. Verification involves the ability to replicate past climate conditions. Tweaking the model until it approximates those conditions is not verification. The conundrum is that without data you cannot create an accurate model or verify it; maybe a classic scientific Catch 22?
Tell him that you know he will feel much happier inside if he is doing something to make Australia and the world a better place, instead of going to work every day to make it a worse one.
In a post titled: "How Obama's Clean Power Plan will fuel the solar industry's rapid growth," Forbes.com contributor Lyndsey Gilpin quotes Shayle Kann, senior vice president of GTM Research: "It could be a major catalyst for solar nationwide." Gilpin points out: "Apart from the Solar Investment Tax Credit, the federal tax credit for solar, the Clean Power Plan is the first national policy for renewable energy."
The Energy Department's conclusions echo numerous comprehensive independent studies from across the ideological spectrum, including progressive analyses by the Hamilton Project led by Michael Levi, senior fellow and energy expert at the Council on Foreign Relations and research directed by Charles Ebinger at the Brookings Institution . This is a rare instance in which liberals and conservatives as well as industry and thoughtful environmentalists mostly agree.
One thing that is fairly predictable, and sometimes devastating in Russia this year, tragic is flooding. Right now an emergency in many parts of Northern Europe. Local flooding is fairly possible to predict, and risk areas ought to be rather easy to identify by now. As every year, take precautions, and think twice before building that dream house on that extraordinarily cheap piece of land on the river bank.
IPCC report downplays economic impacts of climate change, reviewer says
The press release states that IPCC has created an ever-broader informed consensus, which is true. This consensus is created by having experts sift through solid research and write up summaries based on personal judgment.
I'm not entirely comfortable sending the password around unsolicited, but haven't got better ideas at the moment. If you feel this makes you seemingly "complicit" in a way you don't like, don't take action.
Bill McKibben of 350.org, which organized the recent Washington, D.C. rally against the pipeline (CFACT was there!) called Keystone XL "the most important issue for the environmental movement in a very long time." What about "the oil will be developed with or without the pipeline' does McKibben fail to understand? Reality denial syndrome seems to take a severe toll on these enviro's ability to process and comprehend hard facts in the real world. They should probably stick to computer modeling.
By Staff Writers, GAO, Aug 4, 2015
The rest of the article is equally superficial. For example, there is lots of discussion of Arrhenius, but no mention of feedbacks. Does Robbins really not see that the difference between disaster and decades - centuries even - of gentle, beneficial warming is the feedbacks? What is gained by shouting "Arrhenius" at the top of your voice.
If you've paid any attention to the global warming debate, you've heard of James Hansen.
Russia's relation to the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, and its expectations, are of an altogether different nature. On the surface, to be sure, China and Russia appear to be the two main pillars of the SCO. Economically and militarily, the two countries' relation is, for the time being at least, one of genuine complementarity. But while the SCO constitutes the core of China's Islamic strategy, it is for Russia a tactical option to both manage the rise of China in Eurasia and to gain leverage over the West.15
Then they impose their preferences, their personal preferences based on their ideology or worsesocial and political pressures.
Meanwhile there 'who expects to be able to dance on the grave of that other prime minister, a famous historical figure still living and increasingly painted satanic traits, Margaret Thatcher. And really there is' a link between the two.
So droughts in North America are coincident with solar insolation minima. We already know of the cause and effect relationship between solar cycle minima and East African rainfall. West African drought has been found to be linked to Atlantic sea surface temperatures 2 .
A paper published in Quaternary Science Reviews finds that sea surface temperatures of the NE Atlantic have cooledapproximately 3 C over the past 2,400 years from 400 B.C. to 2000 A.D. The authors findthat the peak temperature of the Medieval Warm Period was approximately 2.2C greater than the peak temperature of the late 20th century, and that the peak temperature of the Roman Warm Period was about 2.7C greater than that of the late 20th century. As stated by The NIPCC Report , "the fact that the warmest portions of the Roman and Medieval Warm Periods in the vicinity of the northeast Atlantic were so much warmer than the warmest portion of the Current Warm Period - and at times when the air's CO2 content was so much less than it is currently - strongly suggests that the atmosphere's CO2 concentration had little to no impact on the late-Holocene climatic history of that part of the planet."
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Just as bad, in the view of the President and his allies, Jacksonians don't have much respect for the educated and the credentialed. Like William F. Buckley, they would rather be governed by the first 100 names in the phonebook than by the Harvard faculty. They loathe the interfering busybodies of the progressive state, believe that government (except for the police and the military) is a necessary evil, think most "experts" and university professors are no smarter or wiser than other people, and feel only contempt for the gender theorists and the social justice warriors of the contemporary classroom.
Their legs are good for a whole lot more than merely providing the raw materials for a delicious dish at a ritzy restaurant
Ukraine Meanwhile, Ukraine is at risk of undoing the Orange Revolution. The party of Viktor Commie Yanukovich has received 33 percent of votes while Viktor Western Yushchenko's party has only received 13 percent or so. Fortunately, the former ally of Yushchenko and the former prime minister, Yulia Tymoshenko, who is also a blogger (with a few blog secretaries), received 22 percent of votes and is ready to re-unify the orange coalition. Their union has broken after different attitudes to some corruption charges.
Dan Kish, senior vice president of the Institute for Energy Research, responded to the revelation saying: "In his testimony under oath, Beale, perhaps unwittingly, has laid bare the administration's end goal. The President's policies are not about carbon, they are not about coal, and they are not even about energy and the environment. They are about fundamentally altering the DNA of the capitalist system. These policies are not about energy, but power."
S. Fred Singer: First, there would be very little public interest in funding climate science, were it not for an assertion by alarmists in the political and environmental communities that a human-caused ("anthropogenic") global warming crisis exists, which can be mostly attributed to carbon-dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels to generate energy.
The 2007 Atlantic Hurricane season did not meet the hyperactive expectations of the storm pontificators. This is good news, just like it was last year. With the breathless media coverage prior to the 2006 and 2007 seasons predicting a catastrophic swarm of hurricanes potentially enhanced by global warming a la Katrina, there is currently plenty of twisting in the wind to explain away the hyperbolic projections. The predominant refrain mentions something about ???being lucky?? and having ???escaped?? the storms, and ???just wait for next year??.
E&E; Legal recently released documents obtained through FOIA from various state attorneys general offices that show communications among instrumental players in coordinating the March 29, 2016 press conference on combatting climate change. The emails allegedly show "The offices of New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman (D), and other politically-aligned AGs, secretly team up with anti-fossil fuel activists in their investigations against groups whose political speech challenged the global warming policy agenda."
Doctors brace for possible big Medicare pay cuts:
Typical of the Obama approach, this pragmatism will place results ahead of market ideology and process concerns. It will also begin by making clear to the public in all three countries what it is that their governments are attempting to do, issue by issue.
Jack Ward Thomas, President Clinton's forest service chief, noted a few years ago that court battles have tied the agency in a "Gordian knot" creating a "vicious cycle of increasing costs, time delays, and inability to carry out management actions." As a result, most national forests are a tinder box of old-growth trees ravaged by disease and insects.
Introduction and Summary Prudent Investing in Regulation to Mitigate Climate Change Participation by All Major Greenhouse Gas-Emitting Nations in Climate Regulation U.S. Interests and Global Climate Regulation The Elements of Sound Regulatory Design for Climate Policy Assessing and Correcting the Kyoto Protocol's Flaws U.S. Leadership in Reconstruction Conclusion
Ever since the 1999 intervention in Kosovo, NATO has been eager to prove that it stands for more than "No Action, Talk Only." But the adoption by the Alliance of the Marge Simpson doctrine ("Are we gonna just stand there like the French, or are we gonna do something?") has proved to be no substitute for a new strategic concept. Kosovo itself, waged in no small part to maintain the credibility of the Alliance, ended up paradoxically weakening NATO's credibility and the mutual bad blood afterwards constituted the single most important underlying reason of the 2003 near-death experience over Iraq.
October 23, 2012 AUSTRALIAS $46 million Antarctic airstrip is melting, leaving the government scrambling to find a new air link to the frozen continent.
Al Gore and his NASA scientific advisor James Hansen predicted sea levels would rise six metres by 2050 in 1988, a metre each decade (62 years-time), with the Florida Keys being one metre under water by the year 2000.. This is 96.8mm per year. Error to date is 5,693%
Another lie claims that there is a consensus among climate scientists that a known man-made global warming crisis exists. Official statements to the contrary presented by more than 650 international climate-related experts who presented contrary official testimony recorded in a 2008 U.S. Senate minority report suggest otherwise. So do petitions signed by more than 30,000 scientists that have challenged IPCC's 1995 procedures and report representations. Those circumstances prompted Dr. Frederick Seitz, former president of the U.S. Academy of Sciences, the American Physical Society, and Rockefeller University to write in The Wall Street Journal: "I have never witnessed a more disturbing corruption of the peer review process than events that led to this IPCC report."
President Obama has pledged to take every possible action to safely develop this energy. Mitt Romney calls the domestic gas a godsend. Energy tycoon T. Boone Pickens, an early natural gas booster, contends its obvious that Washington should enact policies to encourage natural gas production and use throughout the economy.
Peter Ferrara, Investor's Business Daily
IN the past collusive lawsuits and the problem of Chevron jurisprudence have been a focus of JunkScience postings along with the problems of junk science and issues of scientific evidentiary admissibility. All of these abuses of judicial power violate the constitution when they allow judges to become law makers and givers, rather than deciding cases by applying the law made.
Now this isn't meant to be an indictment of the scientific process. I just want to point out that scientists are people too. And while the most objective people I've ever met are scientists, for the most part, people that speak out on the issue of global warming have greater motivations than just searching for how things work.
Then in 2010 Sierra Club decided to end its relationship with Chesapeake Energy.
Just received a heads up that CTV news will be airing a whistleblower segment tonight, involving a government reclocation contract. Correction- it airs on Thursday, May 12.
At Pugh's website, a commenter ( Steve Goddard , unrelated to GISS) says the following: lewis,
A paper published last month in the journal Climate Dynamics finds that "The Antarctic sea ice extent (SIE) shows an increased trend during 19792009 , with a trend rate of 1.36 0.43% per decade. Ensemble empirical mode decomposition analysis shows that the rate of the increased trend has been accelerating in the past decade. "
He has taken up several lucrative posts since leaving office three years ago. He has a 1 million deal to advise the ruling royal family of Kuwait and has been paid a 4.6 million advance for his memoirs.
Like many true-believers, he is insufficiently trained in logic to know that absence of correlation between two datasets necessarily indicates absence of causation between them. The sharp fluctuations in global temperature in phase with the 60-year cycles of the ocean oscillations are not correlated with the monotonic changes in CO2 concentration.
And then there is the temperature "hiatus." Despite increasing atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations, there has been virtually no temperature increase since roughly 2002, despite the predictions of the climate models. No one knows why; the science is not settled, nor can it ever be, by definition.
That failure on his part to check with me when he could not find the sources of my data was clearly deliberate. He didn't want to give me any advance notice that he was planning to launch a widely-disseminated attack on me, because otherwise I might have pointed out his errors to him in advance, and that would have made it a great deal more difficult for him to get away with publishing them.
I personally believe that disclosure of any relevant content of the material is justified in the public interest, given the billions of pounds of public money spent on the climate scare maintained since the start of the Climategate email chain. Early in that chain, Michael Manns paleoclimatology work, including the infamous Hockey Stick used to scare policy makers into great expense on the publics behalf, is described as crap by other scientists who nonetheless did not speak up in public to allay the fears of impending climate doom it engendered. This is just one example of why the public has a right to know what went on behind the scenes at the heart of the Climate Research Unit and within the IPCC process.
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale, WUWT, Aug 12, 2015
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Leading climate analysts are designing a set of new policy scenarios that will be used to frame future climate policy analyses. This new exercise seeks to improve the realism of the scenarios used in climate policy analysis. In recent decades, rational choice institutionalism (RCI) has increasingly influenced several social sciences. A systematic effort to apply findings and concepts borrowed from RCI studies would offer three types of benefits to this scenario exercise. First, it would increase internal consistency within each of the projected scenarios. Second, it would enhance the realism of the entire suite of scenarios. Third, it would illuminate a range of factors, trends, and causal pathways than might otherwise be considered. These gains could be exploited best by engaging some leading RCI scholars in the scenario building process.
A SNR ratio of 1 appears to be exactly the same as the VZ erik167 network that Ive experimented on. In any of these pseudoproxy neworks if youre adding equal amounts of white noise you can usually get your signal back using simple averages. From the above networks, they calculated RE, r2 and CE results:
There were many in the established science community that embraced the Big Bang thinking that this disproved the existence of God, or at least Biblical prophesies. It is not an endorsement of Creationism to state the obvious. We live in the Milky Way Galaxy with between 200 and 400 billion other stars, many capable of having life supporting planets. Our galaxy is just one of at least 80 billion similar galaxies.
In the assessment of global warming (and global cooling), this research further shows that unless the role of near surfacevapor trends are included, a quantitatively erroneous assessment will necessarily result. Thus, when a media report or scientific paper claims thata certain increase (or decrease) in temperatures have occurred over a period of years, this cannot by itself, be used to say this is warming or cooling (in terms of heat), unless the changes in water vapor concentrations are simultaneously assessed so that moist enthalpy changes are computed.
Bjorn Lomborg is another high-profile climate sceptic who changed his mind after reviewing the evidence. He now believes climate change is real, but that it wont be the calamity predicted by some.
when a contentious issue comes up and takes the lead on walking out
Distinguishing the Roles of Natural and Anthropogenically Forced Decadal Climate Variability: Implications for Prediction
Dr Pachauri has repeatedly denied any conflict of interest between his work for the IPCC and his work for Teri. In a recent letter to The Sunday Telegraph, he said there was no question of either himself, the IPCC or Teri being influenced by associations with organisations.
"The Court did not rule, though, on whether states could use state public nuisance laws to regulate such emissions in court. The Second Circuit was directed to consider this issue on remand."
In 2011, Texas A&Ms Andrew Dessler announced that Texas was going to be hot and dry for the rest of the century based on a single data point.
After heavy rain during the night, we rolled south from Edinburgh in sporadic showers through the land of the giant bird shredders I stopped to look at them. Id not been up close to one in a decade or so, and like my daughter, oh, my how theyve grown in that time.
This is the key difference between politics and free enterprise. If politics were a product, it would have no customers. And yet, somehow, we end up spending a quarter of our gross domestic product on political goods and services that wouldn't get a single bid if they were for sale on E-bay.
Al Gore certainly looks like a man who is running for President in An Inconvenient Truth, a shamelessly propagandistic documentary that has all the artistry and subtlety of a campaign ad.
"Though CSR was labeled by free-market icon Milton Friedman as a "subversive doctrine,' much of the business community has embraced it, arguing that it is simply "good for our business.' Opponents of CSR have naturally argued the contrary, emphasizing the economic costs of following such a "misguided virtue' as CSR. But little attention has been paid to the actual arguments made by advocates of CSR within the business community. This is a shame, because a closer analysis of the "business case for CSR" shows that it is, indeed, based on a set of assumptions that undermine the legitimacy of the free-enterprise system."
From Arizona State University where I really don??t think they understand that warmer winters aren??t necessarily a product of ???climate change?? but are mostly weather pattern and ocean cycle pattern driven. Then there??s the recent study about waste heat where the researchers found:
Llasat et al .'s work revealed "an increase of flood events for the periods 1580-1620, 1760-1800 and 1830-1870," and they report that "these periods are coherent with chronologies of maximum advance in several alpine glaciers." In addition, we calculate from their tabulated data that for the aggregate of the three river basins noted above, the mean number of what Llasat et al . call catastrophic floods per century for the 14th through 19th centuries was 3.55 0.22, while the corresponding number for the 20th century was only 1.33 0.33. What it means
LNG exports could at most cost on average about $4 a month adding "as much as $50 to the annual electric bills for the poorest American households by the end of the decade," Levi write. "But the federal Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program could help shield the most vulnerable as long as its financing is protected."
They make a big deal out of the rifle being left in the car and the coroner (prior to doing any autopsies) saying the shooting was done with a rifle. Maybe its just hard to tell in the field and the guy guessed wrong when on camera.