Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
Those interested in additional information should find the following items useful. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce provides an excellent literature summary on global warming and air pollution in its detailed review of EPA's endangerment proposal and TSD. Joel Schwartz's book, No Way Back, explains why air pollution will continue to decline in the decades ahead. Finally, Joel presents his critique of the warming-will-destroy-air-quality scare in this video from the Heartland Institute's first annual International Conference on Climate Change.
In my post last week, Greenland Glaciers Melting Faster? , I suggested that there was no evidence that sea levels at Reykjavik have been rising at a faster rate in the last decade than before.
Instead, the evidence now points to the IPCC and its Climategate scientists conspiring to mislead. Thankfully, the vast majority of the world's scientists do not believe in the IPCC's climate political-science proclamations and thus continue performing/producing empirical research to determine the science truth.
To show how uncivil this crowd can get, Happer e-mailed me an article about an Australian professor who proposes quite seriously the death penalty for heretics such as Dyson. As did Galileo, they can get a reprieve if they recant.
This images indicates Yellowstone earthquake from the past week. One of the most intense siesmic "swarms" in the national park's history has been shaking the north end of Yellowstone Lake. Since Dec. 26, 900 quakes, 111 measuring magnitude 2.0 to 3.9, have been recorded. Image by the U.S. Geological Survey.
Meanwhile, global sea ice area is normal.
Thank you, Mr. Chairman, this concludes my testimony. I would be happy to try to answer any question that you or other Members of the Committee may have.
Elser writes, for example, that "Hietz et al . (2011) gathered data in tropical rainforests of Panama and Thailand," and he says the results indicate that "increasing levels of nitrogen deposition in the tropics have alleviated forest nitrogen limitation." And as a result, this phenomenon has allowed the aerial fertilization effect of the ongoing rise in the air's CO 2 content to significantly stimulate tropical forest growth nearly everywhere on earth, as has been demonstrated by the host of studies we have reviewed on our website and archived under the general heading of Forests (Tropical) in our Subject Index.
Not long ago some climate scientists announced winters with snow would be a thing of the past in Europe. Global warming, they said, would be especially noticeablein the wintertime. But then in the late 2000s and early 2010s, a string of harsh winters gripped the old continent and the trend in Germany went downhill: colder and snowier winters.
Continuing, Trenberth states that ???confidence in model results for changes in extremes is tempered by the large scatter among the extremes in modeling today??s climate, especially in the tropics and subtropics (Kharin et al ., 2007), which relates to poor depiction of transient tropical disturbances, including easterly waves, Madden-Julian Oscillations, tropical storms, and hurricanes (Lin et al ., 2006).?? These phenomena, in his words, ???are very resolution dependent, but also depend on parameterizations of sub-grid-scale convection, the shortcomings of which are revealed in diurnal cycle simulations,?? wherein ???models produce precipitation that is too frequent and with insufficient intensity (Yang and Slingo, 2001; Trenberth et al ., 2003; Dai and Trenberth, 2004; Dai, 2006).??
The union puts that power to a host of political uses, starting with state-level lobbying, which consumes by far the largest portion of its political budget. State filings show that 1199 and its affiliate, the Healthcare Education Project, have spent $30.7 million over the last decade, a sum that surpasses even the lobbying expenses of a perennial Albany powerhouse, the New York State United Teachers.
Once this global network has declared an issue to be of paramount importance climate change being the most prominent current example it can team up with elements of the global business community, eager to take advantage of whatever regulations, subsidies, and other measures are adopted to promote the latest fad. The result is the rise of a formidable coalition of power-hungry regulatory bureaucrats and rent-seeking companies, working with, and often funding, friendly non-governmental organizations (NGOs) for the purpose of transforming the world to suit their interests.
"But, Dad. That sounds to me like a bear doing what bears will always do. Eating easily available stuff in preference to less available stuff. It's hardly a sign of imminent climate doom."
The sizable government largesse helped forge a pragmatic bond between top Dow officials and Markey, an outspoken campaigner for climate change initiatives and against shale gas development. They haven't always been on the same page. For example, Markey has opposed a chemical security measure, which Dow has backed. But that issue is small potatoes compared to climate change, one of Markey's signature issues.
6. De-bottlenecking. EPA proposes to clarify that, when calculating actual emissions associated with a modification, emitters generally will need to look only at the unit undergoing the change. Emissions from units "upstream" or "downstream" of the unit being changed would be considered only when the permitted emissions limit of the upstream or downstream unit would be exceeded or increased as a result of the change.
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Now its necessary to scrutinize the figure very carefully. Looking across the wavelength scale at the bottom, H 2 O absorbs strongly in the 3-micron region, and again between 5 and 7 microns; then it absorbs to some degree beyond about 12 microns. CO 2 has absorption bands centered around 2.5 microns, 4.3 microns, and has a broad band out beyond 13 microns. Consequently, CO 2 adds a small contribution to the greenhouse effect. Notice that sometimes CO 2 bands overlap with H 2 O bands, and with vastly more H 2 O present, CO 2 doesnt matter in those bands.
In fact, he implicitly called for an eventual ban on virtually all forms of energy. The only forms of power generation Gore supported as truly green were wind, solar, and geothermal energy???which today produce a meager and extremely expensive 2% of our nations electricity.
Cheap gas makes it difficult for rival forms of fuel to compete, said Sam Brothwell, a senior utility analyst with Bloomberg Industries, in a telephone interview. Historically, gas-fired generators have been the least expensive to build, offset by a higher fuel cost, Brothwell said. With gas falling below $3, it makes all other forms of producing electricity look less competitive by comparison, he said.
Writing recently inJournal of American Physicians and Surgeons, Dr Richard S. Lindzen, Emeritus Professor of Atmospheric Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said of those with political agendas who found it useful to employ science, This immediately involves a distortion of science at a very basic level: namely science becomes a source of authority rather than a mode of inquiry. The real utility of science stems from the latter; the political utility stems from the former.
The United States produces well over 5 billion tons of CO2 alone every year. At $160 per ton, this means that the total cost is $800,000,000,000 each year, which is more than the gross domestic product of every state except California. To say the least, this seems unlikely.
Again, the solid red lines are the observations of cloud radiative effect. CM2 looks ???decent?? for the net effect, but it only gets a decent estimate because it underestimates the short wave radiation (by up to 70W / m2) and overestimates the longwave radiation. HadGem is ???less awful??.
It's true that, unlike the era of John Glenn and Neil Armstrong, the new age of space offers plenty of room for commercial ventures, whether it's by Elon Musk's SpaceX or Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic, and whether the aim is to launch satellites or to send tourists into space. The days when only a government agency could operate these advanced technologies safely or frequently are long gone.
About one-half of Blunder is a non-technical description of our new peer reviewed and soon-to-be-published research which supports the opinion that a majority of Americans already hold: that warming in recent decades is mostly due to a natural cycle in the climate system not to an increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide from fossil fuel burning.
only yield well under a dollar (present value) in benefits. So give up
"The idea that the Constitution grants only limited and enumerated powers and leaves the remainder to the states is foreign to those who believe that the national government should or even could address voters' every concern. But contrary to the view widely shared by the political class, Washingtonin particular, Congressdoes not have the power to pass any law it wants in the name of the 'general welfare.'"
The EPA could issue GHG performance standards for existing (as distinct from new or modified) coal power plants, as well as GHG performance standards for other industrial categories (refineries, cement production facilities, steel mills, paper mills, etc.).
Consumers have experienced the Prius and had a look at the future Chevy Volt and other EV??s, but inconveniently are rejecting these choices in favor of affordable vehicles . Big ones.
If you doubt this will happen, look at the wind and solar industries, which have used the same argument to extend their subsidies successfully half a dozen times, most recently in December.
As I forecast a couple of months ago, CET figures just released confirm that 2012 was the second coldest for sixteen years, second only to 2010. The provisional figure is 9.70C, which is 0.27C colder than the 1981-2010 average.
Maybebut only via serious venues like PBS's the NewsHour and The New York Times.
Manns reply to this (his "review") depends on Mann et al 2005 (J Clim 2005 available at his website) and Mann et al 2006 unpublished. (Isnt amazing how often the Teams supposed refutation of a point is in the still unpublished article?)
Delingpoles article (not written by him) was incorrect in many aspects. Certainly more dams should have been built even if they might have put pressure on the rare lesser spotted tadpole in the catchment area. The Greens of course and local landowners put an end to that and will continue to do so as long as the Greens exist. However more dams wouldnt have stopped the current severe floods unless an unrealistic number had been built. They may have saved some properties but the rivers do need to flow.
Although some of the stuff in the analysis is unanswered the most important trend is per capita figures for comparison.
Yeatman: In 2008, candidate Obama promised 5,000,000 green jobs. $90 billion stimulus later, he's talking about "tens of thousands of jobs"?
Safety. Right now most of the oil from Canadas oil sands and North Dakotas Bakken shale deposits moves by railroad and truck fuel tanks, often through populated areas. Truck and rail accidents have forced towns to evacuate and even killed 50 people in Lac-Megantic, Quebec. Corporate executives and federal regulators are working to improve tanker designs and reroute traffic. But even despite occasional accidents, pipelines have a much better safety record. KXL would be built with state-of-the-art pipe, valves and other components, to the latest design, manufacturing, construction and inspection specifications. It has been configured to avoid population centers, sensitive wildlife areas and the Ogallala Aquifer.
Simply put, white corals were physiologically healthy when compared to dark and light-brown colonies, which would lead to the "potential overestimation of coral bleaching" by nearly twice as much . One reason for this overestimation is that traditional coral monitoring is unable to detect between white and bleached (dead) colonies. Video transects from reef monitoring surveys off the coast of Brazil showed that the "proportion of bleached and white colonies is similar, thus suggesting that current coral reef surveys may be overestimating the bleaching of M. cavernosa by nearly twofold."
Judge Rules "I Heart Boobies' Bracelets Are OK For Students to Wear:
"Sens. Cruz and Rubio have slightly different understandings of climate science, but their policy positions are very close," said Ebell. "Cruz and Rubio have both said that they will overturn the EPA's greenhouse gas rules.
In other words, if you are a scientist funded by global warming research money, you make up whatever lie best suits your current funding requirements.
Potential crop failure due to drought led China to buy wheat on the international market and contributed to a doubling of global wheat prices
New report: Obesity promotes global warming
The most worrisome aspect of environmental lies is that they are used to justify governmental policies.
Kevin Long, a long-range weather forecaster based in Bendigo, Victoria, went on to explain that he believes we are at the beginning of another mega-drought in the Basin because of the solar minimum and phase of the current lunar cycle.
15b. Current state of scientific knowledge allow for a reasonable assessment of the effects of surface albedo
(1) Barbale (1970) and Madsen (1971, 1975) found that a tripling of the atmosphere's CO 2 concentration produced modest increases in the vitamin C concentration of tomato fruit, while Kimball and Mitchell (1981) found that atmospheric CO 2 enrichment enhanced the vitamin A content of tomatoes,
Heres his analysis (sic) where he struggles for the word satire:
it is easily argued that betting the monsoon on the ability of models to accurately capture such subtleties would require a foolhardy level of trust, a remarkable lack of concern for hundreds of millions of livelihoods or a startling desperation in the face of the alternative.
So you can see that degree days matter and that if you get it wrong you have Big Problems.
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Despite predictions that the temperature on the globe should rise with a huge speed, nothing has really happened the last 10-15 years, says the August 7 print edition of the Danish Jyllands-Posten , the famous daily that published the Muhammad caricatures .
What about the claim that researchers must hold smog-precursor emissions constant to isolate the global warming impact on future ozone concentrations? EPA offers the same rationale on p. 78 of the Technical Support Document (TSD) for its proposed finding that greenhouse gas emissions endanger public health and welfare (EPA's official response to the Supreme Court's decision in Massachusetts v. EPA, 2007). However, the only accurate way to isolate the "global warming effect" on ozone concentrations would be to compare ozone levels in warming and non-warming scenarios based on plausible projections of precursor emissions in the 2020s, 2050s, and 2080s.
The following will probably just demonstrate my total ignorance of networking protocols, but I am not sure why IPv6 couldn't be written in a way that the extra bytes would just be ignored by IPv4 systems. It could be assumed that all IPv4 addresses of the form www.xxx.yyy.zzz map to www.xxx.yyy.zzz.000.000 in IPv6, but this may be wildly simplifying what is going on.
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The Heartland affair has shown not merely that some climate alarmists (namely Gleick) will stoop to outright deception, and most of his peers will close ranks to defend him in a sort of Green Wall of Silence. Perhaps more disturbing, it reveals that these people really have no idea how their opponents on the climate issue actually view the world. So when they dismiss skeptics as having no legitimate arguments, it should make outsiders take pause.
The IPCC and other climate institutes have done their work. For 20 years temperatures have remained steady with a slight downward trend. The IPCC and the PIK Potsdam Institute can now be disbanded.
The Hansen Model: Another very simple disproof of Anthropogenic Global Warming.
There??s some very very curious relationships between Rutherford et al. and MM03. Rutherford et al. was submitted to Journal of Climate on July 23, 2003, at around the same time as MM03. As outlined below, I??ll bet dollars to doughnuts that the file "pcproxy.txt", the file at Mann??s FTP site (in Rutherford??s subdirectory) to which we were directed and now supposedly the "wrong file", was used in the original submission of Rutherford, Mann et al. and was fixed up after MM03 pointed out problems with it.
Pursuit of Climate Truth Comes at High Cost
During the Medieval Warm Period extensive fires burned through parts of the Giant Forest at intervals of about 3 to 10 years, he said. Any individual tree was probably in a fire about every 10 to 15 years.
"How much would it cost to download the same amount of data as you get bundled with your home broadband on a mobile roaming tariff? About the same price as a three-bedroom house in Surrey. "
"An assessment conducted in the light of the Second Law of Thermodynamics and the principles of vector algebra of the key greenhouse theory concept of "atmospheric backradiation' suggests that it is simply a mirage. The only "Backradiation Phenomenon' that needs explaining is how this physical nonsense maintains its place in numerous earth sciences textbooks at both school and university level."
None of this would be necessary. View Larger Map I must go away now and give my poor head a rest. Even Steyn got suckered by this one.
CRU still wants scientists to trust its conclusions on which even more climatology is based although it now admits that during an office move, it discarded computer tapes and paper records containing years of original weather-station observations. This is like telling an IRS auditor, Just read my tax return; I chucked my receipts. Proper science relies on generating reproducible results. Since these climate data now likely are locked in a landfill, CRUs results are, by definition, irreproducible. This means, ipso facto , they are non-scientific.
According to the radiative convective equilibrium concept, the equation for determining global average surface temperature of the planet is
We must do everything we can and more to cut down very drastically on our "carbon emissions', as we are now legally committed to do by the Climate Change Act at a cost of 18 billion a year.
Current climate models tend to underestimate the occurrence of the clouds ICECAPS researchers found, limiting those models?? ability to predict cloud response to Arctic climate change and possible feedback like spiking rates of ice melt.
Sure, energy will become really expensive if (i) you prohibit the production of economical forms of energy, such as domestic oil and gas; (ii) you force us to purchase very expensive and unreliable energy from wind; (iii) you jack up the price of the legacy energy output of coal and gas plants with carbon taxes; (iv) you prohibit the deployment of advanced combustion technologies for coal that reduce carbon (and other) emissions by 15-35%; and (v) you have missed a massive revolution in US energy supplies, brought to us by hydraulic fracturing of shale gas reservoirs.
forcing Senators to go on record for for against sensible climate policy
systematic damage from long-term climatic/environmental change Such a
A new study suggests that increasing the use of biofuels like ethanol in the name of combating global warming may actually make the situation worse.
The population bomb and its resource-scarcity corollaries have a quaint ring now, like bellbottoms, gas lines, Jimmy Carter's grin, and other totems of 1970s sensibility. It is this kind of ecoapocalypticism that Bjrn Lomborg called "The Litany":
ENVIRONMENTAL campaigner Rebecca Phyland has been educating the south-west about climate change and now shes taking her message to the world.
The great cat catastrophe of 2023 is by no means the only instance of risible fear-mongering found in the book. It would seem that there is no limit to the horrors that global warming will spawn, including a resurgence of bubonic plague (p. 30) and the creation of viral and retroviral agents never before seen (p. 25). Even typhus is predicted to make a major comeback owing to explosive increases in insect populations
Hmm. Worked in what sense, John? Added costs to every business in New Zealand? Check. Raised electricity prices for every Kiwi in the land? Double Check-a-rooney. Made everything that they buy in the shops more expensive? TripleCheck-a-doodle-doo.
In any event, Gummer is being disingenuous as the whole global warming scare was based on 17 years of warming. I dont recall him suggesting at the time that we wait another 13 years before jumping to conclusions.
Emperor penguins at risk of extinction, scientists warn | Environment | The Guardian
Global warming alarmists are predictable. If they see elevated sea surface temperature anomalies on a map anywhere close to a weather event, they immediately claim manmade global warming contributed, or will contribute, to the weather. They erred that way with Hurricane Sandy sea surface temperatures along Sandys storm track havent warmed in 70+ years and theyve done it again with the blizzard threatening New England today. Refer to the WattsUpWithThat post Propagandist Brad Johnson of Forecast the Facts tries to make the pending East Coast blizzard about the ocean warming Fails .
Kevin Trenberth is head of the large US National Centre for Atmospheric Research and one of the advisory high priests of the UNs Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
The Mail on Sunday ran an article by David Rose a couple of weeks ago, pointing out just how woeful most climate models had been in predicting global temperatures in the last decade or so. Added to other media reports in recent months, the public at large, at least in the UK. are now gradually becoming aware that temperatures have flatlined for several years.
And that transformation will require public support. But even Altman concedes he finds nuclear power a bit unsettling: " I know all of the physics, I know a lot about the engineering, and I know that it's totally safe. And I do not want a nuclear power plant on my block. I really don't. And it's totally irrational, but I understanding why people feel that way." As we have seen with other controversial issues, persistent use of the bully pulpit can sway opinion.
By Steven Hayward, Power Line, Aug 12, 2015
According to its most recent filings with the U.S. Department of Labor, 1199's annual budget is about $185 million, derived mostly from members' $18 to $75 monthly dues. Adjusted for inflation, annual revenues between 2002 and 2014 grew from $118 million to $180 million as the union's membership ballooned from 225,000 to 354,000, mainly through mergers with other unions.