Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
In light of their several findings and the analogous results of several other scientific teams, Crawfurd et al . conclude in the final sentence of their paper that "if all diatoms respond in a similar fashion to T. pseudonana , acidification of this magnitude in the future ocean may have little effect on diatom productivity."
1 Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things.
And why so? The first explanation that comes to mind and that the migration of the X century AD Slavoni dallattuale Serbian-Croatian border must have been really important
"Akin to the submarines that DCNS has been making for the French navy for 40 years, Flexblue is a cylindrical unit 100 metres in length and 12 to 15 metres in diameter. Inside would be a small nuclear power reactor and well as steam generators, turbines and a generator to produce 50 to 250 MWe."
Michael Crichton to Appear on C-Span 2 on February 12th & 13th
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Senior Fellow Iain Murray on what every citizen needs to know about global warming:
In the case of freshwater ecosystems, Joint et al . report that "Maberly (1996) showed that diel variations in a lake can be as much as 2-3 pH units," and that "Talling (2006) showed that in some English lakes, pH could change by >2.5 pH units over a depth of only 14 m," while noting that "phytoplankton, bacteria, archaea and metazoans are all present in lakes, and appear to be able to accommodate large daily and seasonal changes in pH."
CEI Experts Available to Comment: Adjunct Analyst Steven Milloy on the disputed link between dietary fat and cancer:
With the 19.5 inch two-day snowfall total measured at Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall airport?? the seasonal snowfall total in Baltimore stands at 79.9 inches. This would break the previous all-time seasonal snowfall record for
The Obama administration?s record of bad loans to companies providing renewable power?wind and solar?is testimony to the waste of billions of taxpayer dollars. In September, the Department of Energy made $66 million in green-energy subsidies to 33 companies, half of it to companies by a single venture capital firm with close ties to the White House.
Reviews are pouring in at amazon.com : 38 out of 46 reviewers give it 5 stars. Peter Gleick gives it 1 star, stating This book is a stunning compilation of lies, misrepresentations, and falsehoods about the fundamental science of climate change. It is difficult to believe that Gleick has read the book from the statements in his reviews; the book is not about the science of climate change. Rather, it is about the IPCC as an institution: the use of graduate students, WWF and Greenpeace sympathizers as IPCC authors; the use of gray environmentalist literature in IPCC (especially WG2); lack of conflict of interest oversight; the review process and the process producing the executive summaries; etc.
EPA's "Clean Power Plan" is Costly, Illegitimate, and Unlawful, CEI Experts Argue in Public Comment
The White House proposes freezing "subprime" mortgage rates for five years.
Meanwhile, David S. Chapman, Marshall G. Bartlett, and Robert N. Harris of the University of Utah, published in the April 7 edition of Geophysical Research Letters an examination of how Mann's imputation of temperatures from boreholes contradicts their work. Mann argues that borehole records of ground surface temperature (GST) do not accurately reflect surface air temperature (SAT) because of the effects of snowfall. Chapman et al., however, have found that "(1) GST tracks SAT extremely well at time scales that are appropriate for climate change considerations . (2) Snow cover can either warm or cool the ground relative to a ""no snow'' case and need not lead to any bias. (3) Finally, our observations have not revealed any physical process that would explain the supposed preconditioning of GST by a prior season SAT."
It is common sense that climate change would not happen in a neat, linear away but instead in fits and starts.
I regularly rotate between machines, browsers, etc. party to assure that no given platform has much of interest on it if it gets hacked. Partly just as I like to play on different platforms. Partly because some platforms have particular bits of software that I need. In general, Ive preferred Linux or Macintosh. The first for what it lets me do, the second for being about as secure and easy to use and you can get. For about the last year, Ive been on an HP Laptop with Windoz its pretty good but has issues. I wont go into all of them here ( the only HP one is that the keyboard had letters wear off inside 6 months. Now Ive got maybe 1/3 of the keys blank. Good thing I touch type)
SPPI note: see paper by Joanne Nova: http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/originals/climate money.html?Itemid=0
The Antarctic minimum extents, which are reached in the midst of the Antarctic summer, in February, have also slightly increased to 1.33 million square miles in 2012, or around 251,000 square miles more than the average minimum extent since 1979.
Never mind the abuses of fact and reason. Many find Murrays words disgusting because his short-cut through the complexities of the world is so cheap. It makes instrumental use of other peoples suffering, to service a political agenda, and turns it into a marketing opportunity. It hides behind authorities like the defence establishment and Kofi Annan, but flies in the face of empirical evidence and even the scientific consensus, to make claim that other peoples lives would be better there would be no war if only wed buy solar panels from Business Greens clients.
Ice extent was also higher than average in Baffin Bay, between Greenland and Canada, and the Sea of Okhotsk, north of Russia.
Note to Commenters: Many, many of you have disagreed with me vociferously on immigration. Please, I would love to see reasoned comments defending Brewer, particularly with data. In particular, please use the laws of supply and demand to explain how the majority of 8-12 million people are able to earn a living in the illegal drug trade in the southwest. To help you out, there are about 6.6 million people in Arizona. Based on national rates of 8% of over age 12 being users, about 500,000 of those are illegal drug users. One estimate is that there are 500,000 illegal immigrants in Arizona.
As for more detail on magic numbers for lipids and cholesterol and the debate about statins, read this essay by Dr. Miller, who is published by Dr. Orient and the Journal of the American Association of PHysicians and Surgeons, good info for you old duffers who worry about these things. I am a young at heart duffer/emergency physician and I dont worry so much:
YouTube - Global Cooling: Coming Ice Age This video gives background about the 70s ice age scare with an update about some the principal figures.
As already mentioned, there has been a steady increase in temperatures, albeit oscillating around the trend line. Although it could be argued that we are currently about half a degree above the trend, it is also noticeable that the present temperatures are no higher than they were for several years during the 1730s, when the rate of increase exceeded anything seen in recent years.
Sediment cores were extracted from thirteen small lakes distributed across a 20,000-km 2 region in Vermont and eastern New York, after which several techniques were used to identify and date terrigenous in-wash layers that depict the frequency of storm-related floods. What was learned
Hussein et al . conclude that "coastal marsh ecosystems tend to sequester C continuously with increasing storage capacity as marsh age progresses," and that "C sequestration in coastal marsh ecosystems under positive accretionary balance acts as a negative feedback mechanism to global warming," much as we have suggested in the past . References
Another says "Tropical treetops were the womb and nursery of humankind It comes as no surprise to me that we have a deep aesthetic love of forests; in our desire to preserve them, we are also preserving something of ourselves." (Lessons, Donald Perry, p.27)
Next, there is the recently-delayed but still-on-track EPA effort to further tighten air quality standards for ozone. As perhaps the most expensive EPA rule ever, it threatens to kill 7+ million jobs by 2020 and cost $1 trillion per year in compliance between 2020 and 2030.
Kyoto and Oslo: The failed legacy of Clinton-Gore
Global warming and Mann have been worth millions of grant dollars and lots of publicity for Penn State. But one would think the institution's integrity is worth more.
(Although operational at the time, the original records for 1934 are not available for Bremo Bluff and Piedmont, so figures for both years have instead been sourced from GISS).
Is this how Id like to do the analysis? Not at all. Id rather that everything were measured but this is the best we have, and the various climate scientists involved have used all of the available observational data from a variety of satellites to determine the various values, and have ground truthed the surface data in a variety of ways. So until we have better data, the CERES datasets are the closest we have to actual measurements and as near as I can tell they show no sign of the claimed 2 W/m2 increase in downwelling radiation that we are assured is going on over the period of record.
talking goes on beforehand, the big decisions are made at the eleventh hour by
And here's another lovely reason for hating CFLs, if you typically clean up the mess when a bulb breaks rather than call in your servants:
Guys, fyi...were looking to lend the Premier a bit of support in his commitment to taking action on property rights this year. If you have been affected by Native Vegetation Clearing Bans, Groundwater Protection Notices, Heritage Listing, Planning Regulations, Licencing Impositions, or other assaults on what you thought was your private property, come along and lend your support to this important PEACEFUL demonstration.
During his long and infamous career, Holdren has warned that the end is nigh on account of ???ecocide,?? global warming due to direct heating from power plant, global cooling due to particulate aerosol emissions, nuclear winter, population growth, and now, global warming due to greenhouse gases. Needless to say, Holdren has been proven wrong time and time again.
The leftmost image reveals the current condition of the modern "accelerating" global warming that both the IPCC and MSM claim is happening. This objective empirical evidence (from NASA / GISS - James Hansen's - climate research unit clearly indicates that over the last 15 years, through April 2012, that global warming is basically non-existent and that human CO2 has had little impact.
Online searches of media coverage of the ice-bound warming expedition reveal efforts by the warming compliant media to bury the lead, with little or no mention of the nature of the expedition. The irony of global warming researchers stuck in ice is so dramatic, however, that it seems unlikely that they will be able to contain the damage.
When you think about energy reserves, think about the hundreds of thousands of jobs they represent. Then think about the huge revenue in leases and taxes they represent to the government that needs to reduce its debt. Ultimately, though, try to imagine a nation that does not utilize petroleum in thousands of ways or fails to tap its enormous coal and natural gas reserves to generate the electricity upon which that everything depends.
Mark Steyn reacts in a post Rigor mortis, excerpts:
Updated data from NASA satellite instruments reveal the Earths polar ice caps have not receded at all since the satellite instruments began measuring the ice caps in 1979. Since the end of 2012, moreover, total polar ice extent has largely remained above the post-1979 average. The updated data contradict one of the most frequently asserted global warming claims that global warming is causing the polar ice caps to recede.
Obama has made the answer to the last of these questions clear by attending the Guadalajara summit, and plans to announce he will attend the next North American leaders meeting as well, which Canada will host in 2010. NAFTA and North American relations figured prominently in Obama's foreign policy statements during the presidential campaign, and this former "community organizer" has shown that he recognizes the importance of neighbourhood issues. Between his inauguration and the meeting in Guadalajara, Obama will have met with Prime Minister Stephen Harper eight times and with Mexican President Felipe Calderon six times, including presidential visits to each country and at international summits both attended.
On adjustments: For example, simply shifting from liquid-in-glass thermometers to electronic maximum-minimum temperature systems led to an average drop in maximum temperatures of about 0.4C and to an average rise in minimum temperatures of 0.3C. In addition, observers switched their time of observation afternoon to morning. Both of these changes would tend to artificially cool the U.S. temperature record.
The commander of the world's most powerful military reveals that he is skeptical that military power is a solution to what ails the world. Obama, in Goldberg's words, "believes that Churchillian rhetoric and, more to the point, Churchillian habits of thought, helped bring his predecessor, George W. Bush, to ruinous war in Iraq." Obama clearly fancies himself as an anti-Winston Churchill or, alternatively, a more successful Neville Chamberlain, a calm, dispassionate peacemaker. And seven years into his presidency, Obama clearly also still defines himself as the anti-George W. Bush. One thread that emerges in this portrait of the president is that seven years in, when confronted with a challenge, he still silently asks himself, "What would Bush do?" and then does the opposite.
"We are using 50% more resources than the Earth can sustainably produce, and unless we change course, that number will grow fastby 2030, even two planets will not be enough," says Jim Leape, director general of the World Wide Fund for Nature International (formerly the World Wildlife Fund).
See more about CEI's climate subpoena fight here.
At every single meeting I attended in two years, the only topic was funding, she said.
Mark Lynas first drew significant attention to himself for his views on climate change in 2001, when he threw a custard-pie into the face of Bjorn Lomborg, during a book launch.
The preliminary review included the Climategate e-mails themselves, an interview with Mann, and documents submitted by Mann. While one committee member did informally endeavor to get external views on Mann, they only came from Texas A&M;'s Gerald North and Stanford University's Donald Kennedy.
Iain Murray and James C. Bennett's op-ed in The Wall Street Journal Europe
It's not a strong field. Vice President Joe Biden is 72 and has low poll ratings. Elizabeth Warren inspires the Democratic Left, but says she's not running perhaps for fear of exposure of her dubious claim, when seeking prestigious law school jobs, of Cherokee ancestry.
K. M. Murphy, ?Some Simple Economics of Climate Change,? Paper at the Mont-Pelerin Society General Meeting, Tokyo, September 2008.
In Canada, they have a much shorter growing season than in California, and depend on more cold tolerant crops, so use lower reference points than the 50F for nighttime and have an interesting take on the night vs day temps:
Respected unpaid climate analyst, Malcolm Roberts, of Brisbane, Australia compiled the 'CSIROh! Report' on the invitation of ABC Radios Steve Austin. Across 29 pages Roberts details a litany of evidence proving that the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia's national science agency, corruptly and unlawfully misrepresented science, climate and Nature.
Alarm grew over the unrelenting Midwest drought on Tuesday, as one of the top corporate leaders in agriculture warned that the government must act quickly to reduce the amount of corn going to ethanol to prevent a sharp spike in food prices.
CEI Experts Available to Comment: General Counsel Sam Kazman on the results of the poll:
Against a backdrop of harsh winter weather across much of North America and Europe, the concept of rising global temperatures might seem incongruous.
Isnt it relevant to the debate about global warmingwhat to do about global warmingthat the alarmist side engages in this systematic campaign consisting of intimidation and threats, wheels falling off cars, abuses being inflicted on schoolchildren, demands of censorship, revising history, and telling flat-out lies?
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"We don't use this as a refutation of greenhouse warming," Edward Cook told CBS News. "But it does show that there are processes within the Earth's natural climate system that produce large changes that might be viewed as comparable to what we have seen in the 20th century. Greenhouse gases were not a factor back in the Medieval Warm Period."
Taking climate modeling back to basics to address the interplay between atmospheric water and the atmospheric circulation, and the complex couplings between the atmosphere and ocean, require going back to basics and looking at a hierarchy of models and a range of model structural forms. Better understanding and simulation of the climate requires that improve our understanding and treatment of these processes in climate models. It is pointless to worry about aerosols, carbon cycle etc in the context of climate models until these more fundamental issues are addressed.
Doh! NASA's James Hansen in 2008: Warm UK winters "are a clear sign that the climate is changing'
Carbon-intensive sectors such as coal would be the biggest losers under the new tax. Lawmakers from coal-producing regions are influential and would demand a share of the revenues.
In their final chapter, "A Declaration of Energy Independence: America's $50 Trillion Opportunity," Moore and White turn their attention to the United States' good energy fortune. According to the authors, America has more recoverable oil and gas than Russia, twice as much as China, and three times as much as Saudi Arabia.
Climate change analysts use research and analysis to make recommendations for climate-related legislation, fundraising, and awareness campaigns.
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The sound and the fury that has characterized the public discourse on global warming often obscures a basic economic fact: we are in the situation we are in because it requires fewer resources to generate electricity with coal or propel automobiles with petroleum than it does to accomplish those same goals with solar cells and biofuels. The ?green economy? our politicians have placed on a pedestal is not an improvement over our existing one ? there is no gain to be had in producing with the effort of three men what we previously accomplished with two. We should tolerate this inefficiency only insofar as it helps us avoid some other, greater harm.
A New Marshall Plan for Africa? AEI's R. Glenn Hubbard and Columbia lecturer William Duggan"s new book The Aid Trap (Columbia Business School Publishing, September 2009) argues for a Marshall Plan for Africa. Recognizing that current aid efforts are not producing intended results, Hubbard and Duggan explain how restructuring aid money so it goes through businesses, as the Marshall Plan to Europe after World War II did, might lead to better outcomes.
This is the exact opposite of the 100% fraudulent NCDC climate extremes index (CEI) which reports that the region of the country with unusually hot days has increased to record levels.
To counteract all this reverence and submission, but there a widespread delight in seeing yesterday's heroes as villains or failed today, and periodically choose a character like idol of the moment, to be preserved in order to vent their contempt more ' the '(and mourn his tragic demise in most cases) ..
Hurricane Sandy was asuper storm not because it was an intense hurricane (Sandywas a category 1before making landfall), but because it was massive in area and merged with a winter frontal storm. The combined storm system contained more integrated kinetic energy (IKE) than Hurricane Katrina . Scientistssimply do not know howglobal climate change affectsthe formation of such hybrid storms .
NASA's Hansen admits sulfates are a 'wild card'
This is a tough one. The above plot seems to suggest that the observations favor a low climate sensitivity?? maybe even less than any of the models. But the results are less than compelling.
One of them said, ?I am a Jew. How could you accuse me of being a member of the Hitler Youth?? I said, ?If you behave like the Hitler Youth than I will call it as I see it. And if you ever break up someone else?s meeting again and trample on other people?s freedom of speech, I will say it again.?
Alas, not so for some of the major environmental groups. This is because due to its hosting a folk "life" festival, the Smithsonian presents all aspects of rural living, including (gasp!) cars and (horrors!) machinery used for resource extraction. The technology that has improved rural life greatly doesn't fit today's enviros' definition of an idyllic rural culture. Last year, green groups such as the Natural Resources Defense Council actually protested the Folklife Festival because of one exhibit that focused on oil exploration in the tar sands of Alberta, Canada.
One can begin to arrive at the political problem of liberal progressivism when one notes that each of those reversals saw the white working class abandon Democrats in record numbers. Nixon's Silent Majority, Reagan Democrats, angry white malesthese catchphrases from those past elections are merely euphemisms for the white working class. In each election, it was their defection that cost the Democrats their majorities and gave victory to the GOP, and polls and casual observation suggest that the white working class is in revolt against President Obama. You can read my NRO article "GOP Heaven, West Virginia?" for the full argument, but suffice it to say that President Obama's approval rating among white working-class voters is in the neighborhood of 30 percent. By comparison, this is only a few points higher than Nixon's approval rating on the eve of his resignation.
The West Virginia Board of Education voted yesterday to put an end to months of controversy and open up teaching standards to permit students to consider both sides in the climate debate.
A committee of five middle school parents, three teachers and one administrator met to determine whether the book and video served a proper purpose within the curriculum.
After the modification of the photo was exposed last week, city officials defended the practice as common in advertising.
For the past decade the world has not warmed. Global warming has stopped. Its not a viewpoint or a sceptics inaccuracy. Its an observational fact. So we are led to the conclusion that either the hypothesis of carbon dioxide induced global warming holds but its effects are being modified in what seems to be an improbable though not impossible way, or, and this really is heresy according to some, the working hypothesis does not stand the test of data.