Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
The station that got all this started with an errant temperature, Gravesend , is east of London along the Thames. I theorized then that that Thames itself might be a source of heat for that station, and given the density of power plants along it shown above, there might be some truth to that theory.
All told, from the start of the winter season to the very end, Boston received a record 110.6 inches of snow (which even the global warming experts have said is NOT supposed to happen, until it does). Much of it was due to a continuous stream of frigid air channeling down from the Arctic and colliding with the warmer air of the lower 48 states.
With respect to the ocean heat data specifically, Sen Gupta et al write that
The scientists cored trees in the headwaters of the Yellow River and statistically linked the ring widths to historical flows of the river. The tree rings extend back 593 years, and just like magic, the trees allow for a very accurate reconstruction of the total flow of the all-important Yellow River. Examining the plot below (Figure 2), and we just dont find anything curious going on recently that hasnt occurred in the past. The Guo et al. team note that There are several particularly dry periods indicated during the past 593 years, namely, 14801490s, 15901600s, 17001710s, 18201830s, and 19201930s and that he reconstruction demonstrated that 14801490 is the driest decade. Further, they note that The streamflow at Tangnaihai increased during much of the twentieth century. However, since the 1980s, Yellow River streamflow has decreased significantly. Nevertheless, it is not yet out of the range of earlier streamflow fluctuations reconstructed for the past several centuries.
According to data maintained by the federal National Climatic Data Center, drought conditions are no stranger to southern California.
If the crucifixion scandal isn't enough of a revelation of this war on natural gas, remember that the Sierra Club which recently gave the President its most enthusiastic endorsement has just rolled out its newest campaign: "Beyond Gas," a spin-off of its decade-old "Beyond Coal" campaign to phase out coal-fired power plants. As Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune explained "As we push to retire coal plants, we're going to work to make sure we're not simultaneously switching to natural-gas infrastructure. And we're going to be preventing new gas plants from being built wherever we can."
Agnotology, then, is a two-edged sword since either side in a debate may claim that general ignorance arises from misinformation allegedly circulated by the other. Significant questions about anthropogenic influences on climate remain. Therefore, Legates et al. appropriately asserted that partisan presentations of controversies stifle debate and have no place in education.
If global warming is happening ? and the clear downwards trend in temperatures in Britain over the past three years certainly doesn?t add to the evidence ? it is a pretty slow process and one which a rich country such as Britain ought to have little difficulty coping with.
To expose this lie, politicians can have their staff look at the many stagnant or failing countriesGreece, Argentina, Venezuela, France, and Italywhere anti-capitalist policies have been tried and failed. We should not want to join them.
As Food Riots Continue, Finance Ministers Criticize Ethanol Subsidies
I resisted the urge to say ?Duh!? and instead simply said, ?Yes, Tabitha. That is exactly what it seems like.?
Cross Country: Virginia Is Sitting on the Energy Mother Lode
India's Future Climate: No Cause for Alarm
The IPCC and most anthropogenic believers want to maintain the belief that global warming during the past 100 years has been caused by human activity alone, and this is why most of their climate talks and lectures do not even mention prior global warming cycles.
When St-Onge took the platform, she pointed to me and, in a jovial manner, said: "Marita, I hope you are wrong." I called out: "I hope I am too! And, I hate to be wrong."
In fact the report had been made public by the Pentagon, made clear that it was a scenario, not a forecast, and made no mention of the threat being greater than terrorism (that being a reference to the statement by Sir David King see recent issues).
Yet, as the film demonstrates, scientists don't want to talk about their failed predictions.
The six scientists state that the great increase they observed in plant water use efficiency "could be a major physiological advantage to growth under elevated CO 2 in this CAM bromeliad," and that this fact further suggests that CAM species should "be considered in an agronomic context as potential sources of biomass production on arid, marginal lands." Reviewed 1 October 2008
UN Launches "2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development"
Why should you be interested? Sea surface temperature records indicate El Nio and La Nia events are responsible for the warming of global sea surface temperature anomalies over the past 30 years, not manmade greenhouse gases. Ive searched sea surface temperature records for more than 4 years and ocean heat content records for more than 3 years, and I can find no evidence of an anthropogenic greenhouse gas signal in either dataset. That is, the warming of the global oceans has been caused by naturally occurring, sunlight-fueled, coupled ocean-atmosphere processes, not anthropogenic greenhouse gases.
Regardless, Obama is right insofar as Arizona's effort is the inevitable consequence of Washington's inability to take illegal immigration seriously.
Outlandish and misleading claims by global warming alarmists such as Running explain why the public increasingly tunes out the alarmists' unending predictions of doom and gloom. If they want people to take them seriously, they must begin speaking truth rather than propaganda.
It seems certain that Kyoto -- if ratified -- would ultimately prove enforceable (against the U.S.), pursuant to a 1920 Supreme Court decision in Missouri v. Holland which held that that treaties trump state law. This would be done domestically, in U.S. courts, which is admittedly not great comfort.
Last April, in the most devastating outbreak of tornadoes ever recorded, 148 twisters killed more than 300 people and caused half a billion dollars worth of damage in 13 U.S. states.
"The problem with tree rings appears to be that their variations reflect more than year-to-year climate differences (temperature and/or precipitation). As the trees age, tree-ring production changes and introduces a spurious trend in the tree-ring series. This aging effect differs among tree species, as well as within species, depending on the trees' growing conditions (soil type, elevation, slope aspect, etc.). It becomes difficult to separate trends due to aging from those due to climate.
The Chinese government institutes a monthly "no car day" to combat air pollution.
For example, the model range could be much tighter, indicating that the models were in better agreement with one another as to what the simulated trend should be. As it is now, the model range during the period 1951-2012 extends from 0.07C/decade to 0.21C/decade (note that the observed trend is 0.107C/decade). And this is from models which were run largely with observed changes in climate forcings (such as greenhouse gas emissions, aerosol emissions, volcanoes, etc.) and for a period of time (62 years) during which short-term weather variations should all average out. In other words, they are all over the place.
President Obama's January 28, 2014, State of the Union address declared: "But the debate is settled. Climate change is a fact. And when our children's children look us in the eye and ask if we did all we could to leave them a safer, more stable world, with new sources of energy, I want us to be able to say yes, we did."
?Some people say that global warming made each of the following events worse. How much do you agree or disagree??
Global Lukewarming: A Great Intellectual Year in 2011
Once again, we have evidence of considerably warmer temperatures than those of today over much of the past few thousand years - including a period of time coeval with the Medieval Warm Period - in the southeastern Barents Sea, which conditions are said to be reflective of conditions throughout northwestern Eurasia. And once again, therefore, we have the testimony of the very-real world refuting the climate alarmist claim that it is currently warmer than it has been at any time during the past millennium. Ah, there's nothing like DATA!
During the 2016 election, both candidates promised to bring manufacturing back to the U.S. Donald Trump made the recovery of jobs lost to China and Mexico a cornerstone of his campaign. Hillary Clinton's website states: "While too many politicians and experts in Washington gave up on American manufacturing, Hillary never did."
A portion of rainfall is evaporated, what remains goes into the ground and is available for the plants. Koppen divined what was effective, that is available for the plants, by identifying three different annual patterns: rainfall year round, 70% in the summer or 70% in the winter. Each may have the same annual total but the amount left for the plants varies considerably.
There is something disquieting, however, about a liberal like Gore issuing a public bravo for the Republican front-runner. Could it be that Democrats fear Romney's more ideas-focused rivals for the GOP nod? Do they want Romney to stay strong so a Chris Christie or Rick Perry doesn't enter the race, generating excitement for Reaganite grass-roots voters?
We were a bit late getting there due to airplane scheduling snafus, and as we rushed from the airport at 6:15 pm we passed the coal loading terminal at Newcastle. There, as if there was some madcap attempt at sustainability, was one of those huge wind turbines like Ive seen on the US plains. I attempted to get a photo, but my camera misfired with bad focus due to the car window, and I missed the shot.
Aussies refuse to dump beer fridges for sake of global "warming"
Greg Conko and Ron Bailey have prophesized that it's just a matter of time before China and India figure out that molecular plant breeding will save the day and that these two countries will ignore Europe's insistence that this technique should not be used. This is happening now.
Irradiance decrease from 1996 to 2008 solar minimum claimed to produce global cooling . . . but decrease in PMOD and ACRIM composites could be instrumental
The other problem ? and climate flatliners hate me for pointing this out ? is that the beginning of the period of ?no warming? includes the warmest year in the instrumental record, caused by the great El Nino of 1997-1998. In a modestly warming world, starting off at or near an anomalously high point pretty much assures little or no warming for years afterward.
Though the evidence of climate change has, if anything, solidified, Ms. Rosenthal lamented that Mr. Obama now talks about green jobs mostly as a strategy for improving the economy, but not the planet.
So the story leading to the letter begins with the development and approval of the APS Statement. There is evidence that the process itself that produced the Statement was at least highly questionable if not downright illegitimate. It is known that a small group of individuals, not satisfied with the degree of alarm contained in the original draft produced by the officially charged committee, acted unilaterally and without authority to raise the level of alarm. A senior APS professional confides in writing that
New Zealand marks end to coal power
Well, not that new after all, seeing that the peer-reviewed Climate Consensus and Misinformation: A Rejoinder to Agnotology, Scientific Consensus, and the Teaching and Learning of Climate Change by David Legates, Willie Soon, William Briggs, and Christopher Monckton of Brenchleythe same team that brought you the peer-reviewed Why models run hot has been e-vailable in Science and Education for a year and a half ( pdf ).
Ridiculous. There is hardly a skeptic alive who doesn??t think that human activity is causing some climate change, and in particular, some amount of warming. The question is whether one accepts the IPCC??s claim of extreme certainty that the human release of greenhouse gases is responsible for most late 20th century warming, and is on course to cause a dangerous amount of warming over the next century. Skeptics see this as unlikely, or as unsupported by the evidence, but it all comes down to the size of the human warming effect.
A report by the International Energy Agency claims that emissions which will be saved by COP21 / Paris climate pledges currently on the table, will only delay Climageddon by 8 months.
Inconvenient fact: The USA is currently enjoying the longest streak ever recorded without an intense hurricane landfall .
But while more mainstream corporate entities are deserting Heartland, others are stepping into the breach, including the coal lobby and conservative groups such as the Heritage Foundation.
(Update: When I updated, I added someone elses naive projection from Rogers blog. It was made using minitab.)
But what about the glaciers? Three years ago The Guardian was hysterical about an iceberg calving from the Petermann Glacier.
???scenario B assumes a reduced linear growth of trace gases, ?? ?? Hansen??s predicted temperature increase, from 1988 to 2012, is 0.75 C, OVER THREE TIMES HIGHER thanthe actual increase of 0.22 C.
Should this come as a big surprise after Energy Secretary, Steven Chu called upon his counterparts around the world to promote the widespread affordable development of clean coal technology?Well, maybe not. It seemsthat in addition to receiving at least $682 million in federal subsidies and tax credits, along with an unspecified amount of federal loan guarantees, the project has nearly doubled in cost over original estimates. Like Solyndra and other vaunted green government marvels, taxpayers get hit by the overruns, ratepayers get stuck with higher electricity costs, and shareholders get the green.
The vote on my resolution will clearly demonstrate to the American people which Senators will "hold the line" and stand with their constituents for jobs and affordable energy, and which Senators want to kill coal in favor of President Obama's radical global warming agenda that will be devastating to people in their states.
I saw the Nick Ross TV programme about weather disasters earlier in the week
New Jersey Attorney General Zulima V. Farber resigns after an ethics investigation.
One of the most infamous of these "schemes" was the vast Polonoroeste settlement program in Rondonia, funded by the international capital of the World Bank (with Thomas Lovejoy one of the advisors). "Before 1989, tax credits, subsidies, and inexpensive loans were given to people who carved farms out of the Amazon rainforest. Laws required owners to clear their properties to receive title to the land, encouraging property owners to clear much greater areas than they expected to farm many of these policies have been repealed or reformed since 1979 the rate of deforestation in Brazil thus has fallen dramatically." (Eco-Sanity, p.89)
Abbott opposes abortion and same-sex marriage, he is a skeptic on global warming and he wants to end immigration of asylum-seekers. The left-wing Oz commentariat said that made him unelectable. Yet he won big.
The Goddard article is here - so you can judge for yourself whether the bit is actually something Goddard said or not.
In Africa, drought continues for the sixth consecutive year, adding terribly to the toll of famine victims. During 1972 record rains in parts of the U.S., Pakistan and Japan caused some of the worst flooding in centuries
The above headline in the British tabloid newspaper The Sun was certainly apt for much of the British summer just past. The 10th of August was the hottest day ever registered in the UK, 101.3 Fahrenheit (38.5 Celsius) at Faversham in Kent. And the average in 2003 is around 10.65C. The previous highest on record was 1990 (10.63C) and in 1999 (10.62C).
S. 139 does not have the votes to be passed out of the Environment and Public Works Committee, yet McCain secured a vote for it on the Senate floor last October 30, when weaker version of the bill was defeated 43 to 55. McCain forced Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) to schedule this vote on S. 139 in exchange for McCain's agreement to allow the Domenici energy bill to be replaced by the Daschle energy bill from the previous Congress. That switch required unanimous consent under Senate rules.
What is the problem with receiving such funding? Apparently oil companies give handsome sums to climate activist organizations that do not find it taboo to take oil money. Those very recipients simultaneously damn others for taking such funds, even when none were received, sought, or offered. Why should oil companies fund skeptical groups to say what they would say anyway? Theyd get nothing but a kick in the pants for their trouble from the dogmatists.
The press release states that Al Gore is one of the world's leading environmental politicians, even though the administration he was the vice president of did not even manage to ratify the Kyoto Protocol. His one achievement was a public policy stunt full of scaremongering and misrepresentation.
Currently, a hybrid can cost from $3,500 to $6,000 more than a comparable gasoline vehicle. A typical hybrid doesnt come close to recouping this additional expense through fuel savings for many years. With an annual mileage of 15,000 miles and gas costing $4 a gallon, a hybrid would save between $650 and mid $700 a year in gas . If the hybrid saved $675 a year in fuel cost, it would take roughly 5 and half years for the hybrid to reach a fuel savings of $3,500, which is the low end of the additional cost incurred for owning a fuel-saving vehicle. The average American only owns a car for 6 years though. This means that gas would have to reach $8 a gallon for the hybrid to warrant spending the extra money.
The bottom line on this is simple: I can??t pretend to know the temperature within a few kilometers of my house right now to within a couple of degrees C without making basic scientific errors in everything from measurement and imagined precision to application ??? and when people like Jones and Hansen announce in all apparent seriousness that the entire earth is now 0.5C degrees warmer than it was during the period from 1961 to 1990 they??re asking us to accept a very precise number on the basis of data that??s much worse than mine and in the face of applicability, measurement, and computational ambiguities that are orders of magnitude greater.
The AGW-alarmist frenklade the world of s seems the Antarctic ice tillvxttrend as a great mystery. Or perhaps as an annoyance. Why grows the sea ice in Antarctica No global temperature reservoirs, and No. their models says that it should decrease? Evidently's make it good to blame on global warming when it is about the Arctic, but it gets more complicated No trend gr for second hole in Antarctica.
The administration has handed out $2.4 billion in grants to the EV sector, as well as nearly $2.6 billion in loans. None of those bets has paid off. Car buyers are staying away from all-electric vehicles in droves. And yet, for some reason, Romney avoided the subject in the debate.
China has further revised up its solar power development target for 2015 by 50 percent from its previous plan, state media reported on Thursday.
Nuclear engineering professor Higginbotham has been at OSU 24 years; he is president of the OSU Faculty Senate and director of a large NASA program on the campus. His inside knowledge of what the Department of Nuclear Engineering and Radiation Health Physics deans and certain faculty were doing to railroad the Robinson children made him Public Enemy Number One to the department Torquemadas who are trying to destroy his career and get him fired for his impertinence.
The rational is that sun spot activity increases electromagnetic emanations from the sun to interfere with cosmic rays from the universe that cause ionization of water vapor and encourage cloud formation. More sun spots, less clouds.
Of course, the negative PDO/more tornadoes connection will not necessarily hold every year, just as the La Nina/more hurricanes connection does not hold every year.
In Spiegel Online writes Matthias Schulz of Germany plans to build an additional 60,000 wind turbines in forests, p alpsluttningarna and even in protected areas The question is how many forests that have to be sacrificed, how many horizons that must flckas of wind turbines from Germany to n their new klimatml?
Aside from incompetent ideologically driven hacks such as himself who have no idea about climate science, or any science for that matter, there have been some serious scientists attending the conference. In particular, the conference was "remarkably well run", using Boslough's own words, by Dr Petr Chlek of LANL who has a degree from the same Charles University in Prague as your humble correspondent (it's my undergrad Alma Mater). Dr Chlek's advantage in the number of citations over Mr Boslough is about one order of magnitude .
Most authors use values close to k = 0.269 at the characteristic-emission level in the upper atmosphere: however, Kimoto is not the only author to question whether that value is applicable at the surface. Indeed, he says the value of k should really be as little as 0.15 K/W/m2, to make proper allowance for non-radiative transports in the atmosphere, such as evaporation from the Earths surface, which exercises a considerable cooling effect. In general, the models relied upon by the IPCC parametrize non-radiative transports very poorly, if at all.
With increasing greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, there is an imbalance in energy flows in and out of the earth system at the top of the atmosphere (TOA): the greenhouse gases increasingly trap more radiation and hence create warming (Solomon et al. 2007; Trenberth et al. 2009). Warming really means heating and extra energy, and hence it can be manifested in many ways. Rising surface temperatures are just one manifestation.
Most do not have a megalithic character, in fact, they tend to just be the ditch and mound around the outside. This, to me, tends to confirm the notion that they had some simple sighting apparatus, probably just some simple wooden poles, for local use in calendaring. It also points up the special character of Stonehenge and that is why I think it was the Henge College. The NIST or Standards Bureau of its day.
During the period 1941-1975, when global temperatures cooled, giving rise to concerns of a looming ice age, there were 11 years of moderate-to-severe drought.
3. Most significantly, the Rio Earth Summit in 1992 adopted the UNFCCC treaty on the basis of a 30-year cooling trend followed by only 12 years of warming. That treaty dogmatically redefined climate change as being anthropogenic and eventually committed over 190 countries to combat dangerous warming.
4. Langley, SP, 1876: Examination of the direct effect of sun-spots on terrestrial climates. Mon. Note. R. Astron. Soc., 37, 511.
There is no such match between the steady rise in atmospheric CO2 concentration and the often dramatic ups and downs of surface temperatures in and around the Arctic.
Since when is valuing personal freedoms, many of which are protected by the Constitution, and being suspicious of those scientists who have been claiming were all going to die, or questioning sweeping government intervention anything other than a deeply embedded American tradition and a very good idea under any circumstance?