Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
Unilateral imposition of such a tax would offer little to no climate benefit. The idea that China and India would follow the US lead on this issue is absurd. As I like to say, China is as likely to follow the example of the U.S. on carbon controls as it has with regard to human rights, civil rights, religious freedoms, etc. China and India will act on their economic interests, and theyve been quite honest about that.
11.	"The industrialized countries have to decrease their emissions by 80% until 2050 " For what purpose? No, they don't have to do that, they cannot do that, and they won't do that.
Robert Repetto, vice president and senior economist at the World Resources Institute, argued that these predictions are "gross simplifications of the real world." Though Repetto agreed that a stabilization of emissions would lead to a 1 to 2.4 percent loss of GDP in 2020 for the U.S. he disputed the warnings of trade disadvantages. He also conceded that without commitments from the developing nations it would be impossible to stabilize emissions. But, he argued, developing countries have already taken steps to reduce greenhouse emissions.
Bureau of Land Management, "EPCA Phase III: Questions and Answers," http://www.blm.gov/wo/st/en/prog/energy/oil and gas/EPCA III/EPCA III faq.print.html (accessed July 6, 2016), and Institute for Energy Research, "Oil and Natural Gas Booms on Private and State Lands," April 14, 2015, http://instituteforenergyresearch.org/analysis/oil-and-natural-gas-production-booms-on-private-and-state-lands-plummets-on-federal-lands/ (accessed July 22, 2016).
In Praise of CO2: Earth is the Greenest its been in Decades, Perhaps in Centuries Written by Marc Morano
The cooling of the air causes an increase in the extension of glaciers and of snow fields, furthering lowering temperatures with their highly reflecting (high albedo) surfaces. Glaciers therefore increase even more, in a positive feedback that will bring us to a new Ice Age in a hundred years or even less .
Unlike their voters, who are in the country party and adhere tenaciously to their values, Republican politicians are eager to join the aristocracy, Codevilla observes:
Rock Outcrops Provide Biodiversity Refugia in Northern Patagonia
Another Example of Climate Model Failure: Actual Ozone In Wealthy Countries Does Exact Opposite of Predictions
Nor, of course, did Abraham mention the slide in which I showed a picture of the St. Regis Tower, San Francisco, with a map showing it to be just feet from the allegedly-rising ocean at Fisherman's Wharf, and a statement that in 2005, the very year in which Gore was making up his alarmist movie, he had spent $4 million buying a condo there. Would he have bought that condo if he had seriously thought sea level would imminently rise by 20 feet? That, as my Latin Grammar would put it, is "a question expecting the answer "No'".
The first glimpses I got behind the scenes did little to garner my trust in the state of climate science on the contrary. I found myself in front of a choice that just might have a global impact.
In light of their amazing findings, Norikane et al . conclude their paper by stating "there is great hope for using super-elevated CO 2 enrichment under cold cathode fluorescent lamps for more efficient and higher-quality commercial production of clonal orchid plantlets, which is a key objective of orchid biotechnology," citing Hossain et al . (2013) and Teixeira da Silva (2013). References
Proponents also claim ACESA can revive the economy by creating millions of "green jobs." The CRA study agrees that ACESA would lead to "increases in spending on energy efficiency and renewable energy, and as a result that significant numbers of people would be employed in 'green jobs' that would not exist in a no carbon policy world." However, proponents ignore both the fossil energy-related jobs ACESA would destroy and other job losses due to rising energy costs and lower productivity:
on Monday, October 7th, 2013 at 3:51 pm and is filed under Uncategorized.
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The LBT telescope uses adaptive optics to make "adjustments" and achieves a sharper image than the Hubble Space Telescope. Almost all the distortion caused by the atmosphere is basically removed.
One of Briffa??s regional chronologies was AVAM-TAIMYR, which was produced by merging the Taimyr chronology with another site, Bol??shoi Avam, located no less than 400 kilometres away. While the original Taimyr site had something of a divergence problem, with narrowing ring widths implying cooler temperatures, the new composite site of Avam???Taimyr had a rather warmer twentieth century and a cooler Medieval Warm Period. The effect of this blending of datasets was therefore, as so often with paleoclimate adjustments, to produce a warming trend.
Germany?s green energy strategy is likely to change significantly after federal elections on September 22; Merkel has promised voters to drastically curtail the ?20bn burden they have to pay renewable energy investors every year should she win.
EPA moves to fix air pollution rule after Supreme Court loss
As I mentioned above, we were accompanied on the cattle-viewing expedition by Sir Humphry Wakefield, who lives with his wonderful wife Katharine in Chillingham Castle. After our trip to see the cattle, Sir Humphry gave us a guided tour of the Castle itself.
7. When this theory was actually tested, the same researchers, Jensen et al (2008) discovered that global warming will have a positive effect on the suitability of Svalbard for nesting geese in terms of range expansion into the northern and eastern parts of Svalbard which are curently unsuitable.
This would be reasonable if only southern hemisphere sea ice were actually in decline rather than increase.
Common sense is emerging on Human Rights Commissions
It appears that the accidental sale of 14 copies of the latest Harry Potter book at a Coquitlam store last week may have been a marketing blessing in disguise.
2) Continued improvements in energy efficiency can reduce the intensity of energy use but not enough to offset the need for more energy to meet the economic aspirations of the world?s current 6.2 billion people, let alone 7.5 billion in a mere 20 years? time.
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Issues related to religion (particularly Evangelical Christianity) and the global warming issue have been discussed previously here:
Again, LOST supporters say don't worry, but it is not clear they are being straight with us. The World Wildlife Federation and Don Kraus of Citizens for Global Solutions have been telling environmentalists that LOST could stop Russian from polluting the Arctic.
The results of the present study were low compared to those of other such studies of French forests, which have shown productivity increases on the order of 100% over the 20th century. Nevertheless, the authors' results still portended significant growth enhancements throughout the current century. Under a doubled-CO 2 scenario of enhanced greenhouse and aerial fertilization effects, for example, they calculated NPP increases for 14 of the 21 stands studied, obtaining enhancements that ranged from 8 to 55%.
Stated more plainly, the historical temperature record does not agree with what computer models say should have happened. The upshot is that, if the models get the past 10 thousand years or so wrong, how can we trust them to predict the future? The answer, of course, is that we can not. The situation is made clearer in the graphic from the paper referenced in the quote above.
United Nations climate envoys have proposed the creation of a global "climate court" that would be responsible for enforcing a sprawling set of rules requiring developed countries to cut emissions while compensating poorer countries in order to pay off a "historical climate debt."
Is this destruction and poisoning of the natural world, this trampling of human rights, the legacy that climate campaignerswant to leave the world? Is this really the only ethical way to deal with the question of global warming? Is it even ethical at all?
Further, in the presence of multidecadal oscillations with a nominal 60-80 yr time scale, convincing attribution requires that you can attribute the variability for more than one 60-80 yr period, preferably back to the mid 19th century. Not being able to address the attribution of change in the early 20th century to my mind precludes any highly confident attribution of change in the late 20th century.
Conservative Groups Criticize Senate Climate Title
The books' subtitles hint at the authors' shared questions of interest but also their divergent styles and methods. Sanger's book is about Obama's "surprising use of American power," whereas Mann focuses on a struggle to "redefine American power." Sanger, who is the New York Times chief Washington correspondent, takes readers more deeply into the workings of
The editors of the journal remonstrated. They said that despite the article's admittedly poor methodology and the strenuous objections of the paper's referees, they published it to make constructive progress in the debate among scientists, the media, and the general public about a highly charged issue. Unleashing it has proved anything but constructive, because its publication is frequently cited as a presumptive validation of its spurious conclusions. The rationalization by the editors makes a mockery of the peer-review process.
SM: We were very pleased. The last election was the first we were engaged in. We were involved in 16 congressional races and we won 10. So, we felt good about that-- especially because, with the exception of one or two of them, all the rest were highly competitive, very close races, where we really feel that the money that our members raised for these candidates had a decisive influence. We took on some incumbent Republicans and Democrats, and by doing so I think we really put the fear of God in some of these people, and hopefully changed their voting in Congress.
As ever more anthropogenic CO 2 is emitted into the atmosphere and the air's CO 2 concentration rises ever higher, so too does the photosynthetic prowess of earth's terrestrial vegetation grow ever stronger, as the great global greening of the earth gains ever more momentum and sucks ever more CO 2 out of the air and incorporates it into living biomass and soil organic matter, thereby muting the rate of global warming that would otherwise prevail in the absence of this important negative feedback phenomenon. References
Simple arguments allow us to understand why there are differences in horizontal temperature gradients among the planets. There are two fundamental time scales that determine how a planetary atmosphere transfers heat. The radiative timescale, t rad , is the time it would take for an atmosphere above some pressure level p 0 to reduce its temperature by 1/e of its initial value via radiative cooling if solar radiation were turned off. The dynamic timescale, t dyn , is the time required to move a parcel over a characteristic distance in the atmosphere and, in so doing, transport heat from one location to another.
My conclusion (which, is different from that of the authors) based upon the research presented by Santer et al.?that the models are on the verge of failing?is further strengthened by the results of another paper published in 2011 by Foster and Rahmstorf.
The second largest henge structure known to exist in Britain or Continental Europe is Durrington Walls Henge in Wiltshire, Southern England, second only to Marden Henge further NNW.
Where??s that positive feedback that is supposed to manifest itself in water vapor, the most potent natural greenhouse gas?
In short, the careerist climate AGW scientists and their political insiders conspired to convince the world that humans had to pay dearly for exhaling the carbon gases that the natural world and our trees inhales to flourish.
Most Americans even think that on cultural issues things are getting worse: things like crime rates and infant mortality rates and the number of illegitimate births and so on. And we find in the last 15 or 20 years that even these trends show improvement. The crime rate is down, the abortion rate is down, the rate of drug use has declined from its peak in the 1970s. These are good times, and Americans and people around the world tend to resist that message. But we think that the book provides a very powerful refutation of the idea that things are getting worse, not better.
Wanted or Not: Alternative-Fuel Cars Flood Auto Show
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In the context of motor vehicles, the decision probably does not matter much. The statute contains a safety valve that allows the administrator consider "cost, energy, and safety factors." For practical purposes, the agency discretion that was rejected in the initial decision returns through the medium of drafting specific standards.
Germany has told its folks to just bail on I.E. and move on. I agree.
Dead bodies demand organic food moratorium
Here is the basic assumption and aim of the study. Consider exactly what their basic premise implies:
Of greater concern to the system's advocates is that prices of tradable emissions permits in the EU ETS have declined to record lows in the commodities marketplace. While the European Union just released preliminary (and incomplete) data showing that its carbon emissions have fallen at a greater-than-expected volume in 2011 (by 2.45 percent), this positive news has also had a negative effect on the marketplace for carbon emissions. A total of 1.88 billion tons of carbon were emitted in 2011, down from 1.94 billion tons in 2010. The 2011 emissions level was 144 million tons below the EU ETS cap. This is the sixth time in the last seven years there has been an oversupply of carbon offset allowances.
The results of this study ???indicate that seawater chemistry can drive phenotypic plasticity in coralline algae,?? and that ???the ability to change the energy allocation between cell growth and structural support is a clear adaptive response of the organism,?? which they say ???is likely to increase its ability to survive in a high CO 2 world???? Read More
The latest news, as reported by Myron Ebell, the director for energy and environment of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, is that "Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) this week introduced a bill to block the Environmental Protection Agency's proposed rules to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from new and existing power plants. S. 1324, the Affordable Reliable Energy Now Act, has 26 original co-sponsors, including Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), Senate Environmental and Public Works Committee Chairman James M. Inhofe (R-Okla.), and Democrat Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.)."
A further study on North American drought story appeared in mid-2013 in PNAS by Asmerom et al. Interestingly, these authors describe a long-lasting mega-drought that over three centuries took place in the Little Ice Age. Yemane Asmerom and colleagues see a connection with the low solar activity at this time, which had changed the monsoon. Here is the short version:
Why the Medicaid Mandates on States Violate the General Welfare Clause:
The Norwegians' past decision to give a Nobel Prize to Jimmy Carter, which was a poorly-veiled attempt to sway American voters in favor of John Kerry and against George Bush, failed to achieve its objective. Similarly, giving Al Gore the prize will not likely have any lasting effect on American politics.
Fortunately, we have solved this problem before. In 1949 the federal government built a test facility at Idaho National Laboratory to study and evaluate new nuclear reactor designs. We owe our nuclear power industry to the foresight of those New Dealers, and we need their openness to innovation again today. Earlier this year, the House of Representatives passed a bill calling for reform of our national laboratories; recently, the White House hosted a summit meeting to support nuclear energy. However, now that the speeches are over, we still lack a plan to fund and prototype the new reactors that we badly need.
Britain's winter ends tomorrow with further indications of a striking environmental change: snow is starting to disappear from our lives.
Unfortunately for their credibility, since at least the year 2000 global temperatures have trended level despite significant increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide.
I am fully aware of the fact that I am making many assumptions here. For example, I am assuming the average human emissions of CO2 over the next 6000 years will the same as for the last 60 years. As a result, rising temperatures in the oceans could accelerate if it were not for the logarithmic affect of additional CO2. This also assumes that there will be enough fossil fuels to last that long.
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How to Talk About Climate Change So People Will Listen: A Skeptic's View
You certainly know the jig is up when the New York Times finally recognizes that the feverish climate fervor is overheated. They reported on June 6 that The rise in the surface temperature of Earth has been markedly slower over the last 15 years than in the 20 years before that. And that lull in warming has occurred even as greenhouse gases have accumulated in the atmosphere at a record pace. Reporter Justin Gillis went on to admit that the break in temperature increases highlights important gaps in our knowledge of the climate system, whereby the lack of warming is a bit of a mystery to climate scientists.
Graeme Pearman Claims Antarctica is Warming (Global Warming and The Cosmos, Part 1)
It is known that low-altitude clouds have an overall cooling effect on the Earths surface. Hence, variations in cloud cover caused by cosmic rays can change the surface temperature. The existence of such a cosmic connection to Earths climate might thus help to explain past and present variations in Earths climate.
The economic cost of the expansion of renewable energy could become prohibitively expensive. Subsidies in the EU for solar and wind power should be phased out as quickly as possible.
New paper: GISS temps and solar activity
This morning I read a terrific recounting of the the fact that a whole section of the scientific establishment is defending Gleick on the grounds that it??s OK to lie to promote their cause?? from the intellectual heights of the establishment and specifically from those who have proclaimed themselves to be experts on scientific ethics. (Fake But Accurate Science, TIA Daily , subscription required). Following on my post Fakegate: Its what they do , and Anthonys continuing elaboration of the noble cause corruption, this recalled for me a recent experience that had nagged at the back of my mind, bothersome for what it indicates. And it all fits together.
More pertinently, exploitation of previously inaccessible resources could significantly diversify U.S. oil and gas--a longstanding objective of U.S. energy security policy.
The problem: Meehl et al (2013) are using a climate model ( NCAR CCSM4 ) that doesnt properly simulate the coupled ocean-atmosphere processes that drive El Nios and La Nias. As far as I know, there are no climate models that properly simulate El Nio and La Nia processes. Weve discussed this numerous times, and as a reference on those occasions, Ive presented Guilyardi et al (2009) Understanding El Nio in Ocean-Atmosphere General Circulation Models: progress and challenges . Guilyardi et al (2009) is a detailed overview of the problems climate models have in their attempts at simulating ENSO, and it cites more than 100 other papers. I introduced Guilyardi et al (2009) in my post here . Later in this post, well also present one of the very obvious failures that occur because models cant simulate El Nio and La Nia processes.
Gaia's indulgences printed by CFACT, The Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, state, "This indulgence serves as a remittance for all your carbon sins. You are hereby forgiven for: flying where you choose, machine washed clothes, driving your vehicle, your computer and electronic conveniences, taking hot showers, exhaling carbon dioxide, making things in factories, growing food with tractors, eating meat, watching your favorite TV shows, refrigerated food, Edison's light bulb, air conditioning and heating and attending international conferences."
The scientific facts indicate that all the temperature changes observed in the last 100 years were largely natural changes and were not caused by carbon dioxide produced in human activities.?? ??? Robert Jastrow
It's called All Models are Wrong , the corollary of course being that some are useful. I predict that this will become a must-read.
A chief complaint of Lomborg's many critics is that his "Litany" was a straw man. Allen Hammond of the World Resources Institute, for example, argued at an AEI forum in October 2001 that Lomborg's Litany "paints a caricature of the environmental agenda based on sometimes mistaken views widely held thirty years ago, but to which no serious environmental institution subscribes today" (emphasis added). Michael Grubb of Cambridge University, one of Britain's leading environmental figures, wrote in a Science magazine review of Lomborg that "to any professional, it is no news at all that the 1972 Limits to Growth study was mostly wrong or that Paul Ehrlich and Lester Brown have perennially exaggerated the problems of food supply."
on Thursday, August 11th, 2011 at 10:47 pm and is filed under Uncategorized.
The latest target of the Warmists: Viscount Christopher Monckton begin of the skype highlighting end of the skype highlighting of Brenchley, a mathematician and leading critic of the global warming theory, a.k.a. "climate change." Monckton was recently mocked and browbeaten in a 115-slide presentation by John Abraham, a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota. His "hit and run" slide-show attack was an attempt to discredit a presentation that Monckton had given in St. Paul, Minnesota, in October 2009.
Figures 13 and 14 reminded me of two things:
In May, researchers reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that the rate of manmade carbon dioxide emissions was three times greater during 2000 to 2004 than during the 1990s. But while humans may be burning more fossil fuels than ever before, that ever-increasing activity isn't having any sort of discernible or proportionate impact on global temperatures.
Economic growth is a major issue in this presidential campaign. Research has done much to uncover the factors that contribute to growth. Secure property rights, rule of law, open markets, and limited trade restrictions all play important roles. But the Trump and Clinton campaign messages are all critical of freer trade. It is falsea lieto claim that freer trade has hurt us as a nation, as my Hoover colleague David Henderson has pointed out.
Im pulling it up here as I found it interesting, but a little unclear, and doubt that it will be clarified there.
Professor Denning had mixed feeling about the 10-year-old documentary and was surprised that the movie was not exactly as he had remembered it to be when viewing again in preparation for his Heartland appearance. Although surprised that the film had aged fairly well, Denning said he disagreed with the film mostly on emphasis rather than the accuracy of the movie.
Calls for an independent inquiry into what is being dubbed Climategate are growing as the foundation for man-made global warming implodes following the release of emails which prove researchers colluded to manipulate data in order to hide the decline in global temperatures.