Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
In sum, most of the contributors to the RegBlog series on regulatory capture overlooked the fact that ideological special interests, no less than industry, are capable of unduly influencing administrative agencies. Though there's no empirical data, I'd bet that policy groups now are more likely to capture agencies than industry. Regarding this intuition, it is perhaps telling that I couldn't find one example of regulatory capture by industry in any of the posts of the series.
The buyer of the first Nissan Leaf did it for the planet his image
To state the obvious: Briggs is a petty bourgeois pedant and moralist a parasitic excrescence . Even a cursory review of his moral effluvia shows him chewing the rags of absolutist ethics and eternal truths, revealing him as nothing more than a vulgar philistine spewing ideas that colonize the masses and ignore the only end that needs no justification: the liberation of mankind.
With the average price for 1kWh of electricity in the UK at around 11 pence, this wind turbine is predicted to save its owner just 55 to 154 per year giving a pay back period of 45 to 125 years!
The results of this study indicate that, at least for the crop investigated, the positive effects of atmospheric CO 2 enrichment on flower and biomass production are greater at more realistic or natural values of UV-B radiation than what are characteristic of many greenhouses. The authors thus say their results "clearly indicate the importance of using UV-B transmittant greenhouses or open-top chambers when conducting CO 2 studies." If this is not done, their work suggests the results obtained may not depict the true magnitude of biological benefits to be received from atmospheric CO 2 enrichment.
You??ve no doubt heard that global warming will make life harder for some species. But have you also heard that rising temperatures may actually benefit others? Well believe it or not such may be the case, as seen for example by mountain lizards in France and butterflies in England. According to an article in World Climate Report, researchers in France discovered that, as temperatures have increased modestly in recent years, so too has the size and fertility of that nation??s mountain lizards. A similar finding regarding butterflies has also been observed, as scientists in England discovered that the richness of British butterfly species has actually increased as temperatures have warmed. Apparently some species, like some humans, like it hot.
"For the most part, the problems stem from the fact that merely transferring management fails to shift risk to the appropriate parties. Feasibility studies and traffic forecasts are often overly optimistic, and political factorssuch as opposition to tolls out of principle, changing regulatory frameworks, and cronyism and a lack of competition in procurement and contractingexacerbate the risk-sharing problems."
Thompson et al (2009) Identifying signatures of natural climate variability in time series of global-mean surface temperature: Methodology and Insights reinforces the 1945 discontinuity and provide advanced notice of the Hadley Centres intent. They write, THE SST DATA CORRECTED FOR INSTRUMENT CHANGES IN THE MID 20TH CENTURY ARE EXPECTED TO BECOME AVAILABLE IN 2009, and it will be interesting to see how the corrections affect the time history of global-mean temperatures, particularly in the middle part of the century.
These and other renewable energy programs may have originated for the best of intentions. However, the assumptions underlying those intentions are questionable, at best, and many are rooted in anti-hydrocarbon worldviews and Club of Rome strategies that raised the specter of "looming disasters" like resource depletion and catastrophic manmade global warming, in which the "real enemy" is "humanity itself." They also underscore how hard it is to alter policies and programs once they have been launched by Washington politicians, creating armies of special interests, lobbyists and campaign contributors.
Like the recurrence to computer models in Limits to Growth, Speth recurs to Paul Ehrlich's famous mathematical formula as a device to explain the certainty of our environmental doom: I=PAT, where I represents the adverse human impact on the Earth, with P standing for population, A for affluence, and T for technology. The endurance of this simplistic formula is an indicator of the isolation of so-called "mainstream" environmentalists, as it has been thoroughly controverted countless times over the last two decades. Speth and others who employ I=PAT seem unaware of these critiques or perhaps feel it is unnecessary to reckon with them. Rather than engage contrary points of view seriously, all three books employ the argument of authority and cite the 1992 "World Scientists' Warning to Humanity" report, signed by 1,600 scientists, including 102 Nobel laureates, so it must be true:
He's right of course. For the zillionth time, weather and climate are two entirely different things. A hot year with a drought doesn't prove the globe is heating up, much less than the alleged heating up is man-made. But the greens make such claims time and again. It's no more valid for other to say a cold, snowy winter shows the opposite. That's just the point Milbank goes on to make:
These American heroes the astronauts that took to space and the scientists and engineers that put them there are simply stating their concern over NASAs extreme advocacy for an unproven theory, said Leighton Steward. Theres a concern that if it turns out that CO2 is not a major cause of climate change, NASA will have put the reputation of NASA, NASAs current and former employees, and even the very reputation of science itself at risk of public ridicule and distrust.
And as the report also makes clear, the big change in the energy mix has been the rise of gas:
By Andrew Montford, Bishop Hill, Aug 12, 2015
Washington Take Note: The Era of Great Power Politics Is Far from Over in Asia
2. U.S. oil production is rising, but we will still need to import oil, and lots of it. Thanks to the shale revolution, domestic oil production could rise by as much as 2 million barrels per day over the next few years. That's great news. But that increased production will not cover all of America's needs. The more oil we can get from North America, the better.
In fact, Brian Groombridge who edited the most recent edition of the IUCN's Red List of Threatened Animals points out that "around 75 percent of recorded extinctions have occurred on islands; almost all bird and mollusc extinctions have been on islands very few extinctions have been recorded in continental tropical forest habitat where mass extinction events have been predicted to be underway." (Stephen Edwards, "The True State of the Planet," p.218)
However, that??s just evidence in support of my hypothesis that the clouds (and other emergent phenomena) act to minimize changes in temperature. It says nothing about whether there is a solar signal there or not. To determine that, I calculated the periodogram for the average cloud percentages shown in Figure 4.
Even though I am virtually certain we shall lose on McCain-Lieberman, they are
The next day, I got the chance to go salmon fishing with Matt Ridley and my gorgeous ex-fiance. We went to a stretch of the River Coquet, heres Matt and Ellie on the river.
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Xinhua, the state-owned news agency often used by the government to deliver blunter messages, was more direct.
Flawed articles have raised false alarms over the safety of genetically modified (GM) plants, and such reports are then splashed across the popular press. Poor scientific papers published by trustworthy journals have helped spread the propaganda of antitechnology activists.
Update : Julio noticed I lost the final point in Rogers data set when I cut and pasted his series of numbers. I updated my image to show the uptick. Heres the link to the first image.
How deniers work What accusations has he raised? Here's an excerpt:
Olle Hggstrm comes out that climate scientists focusing on uppvrmningspausen
The FDA may soon make it impossible to obtain over-the-counter asthma inhalers.
One hundred years ago, the average Westerner had an annual income equivalent to $4,000. A man could only work somewhere he could walk to; a woman spent much of her life performing back-breaking domestic labor. Medical science, while advancing, was still almost medieval in its practical application.
Looking at the list, it would seem that so such person is to be found among the eminent individuals who make up the Deutsche Bank's Climate Advisory Board: all appear as people who are (to quote a nice phrase from Clive Crook) 'precommitted to the urgency of the climate cause'. A more representative Board, spanning a wider range of opinions. might have taken more trouble to ensure that any published work issued under its auspices would measure up to professional standards.
During the last six months, CEI has held an all day conference, a half-day Hill briefing, and has published scores of op-eds and letters regarding global warming. CEI is a member of the Cooler Heads Coalition, a group dedicated to spreading the truth about the uncertainty surrounding global warming. In addition, Mr. Smith and others at CEI have made numerous appearances on TV and radio to discuss this issue.
Open Access Property Rights and GHG Emissions
All responsible citizens are environmentalists, but that is no reason to yield to mass delusion. more
"Material previously appeared here in which a guest blogger made an allegation that Mr. Richard Warman had posted a bigoted attack on the internet against Senator Anne Cools. I have no evidence that this is true and I retract it and apologize to Mr. Warman for it without reservation." -- Kate McMillan
The economic impacts outline above (and discussed further below) include only the excess burden. At least in the Heritage analysis, the tax revenue is rebated immediately and directly to taxpayers. What remains is the damage done to the economy.
The studys results are compelling because this is the first study of its kind to test the effects of HFCS and sucrose on liver fat levels in humans using real world conditions, said Dr. Rippe, who received a grant from the Corn Refiners Association (CRA) to conduct the study. Previous studies that sought to find a link between caloric sweeteners and diseases such as type 2 diabetes and liver disease often subjected individuals to unrealistically high levels of fructose or had subjects consume fructose independent of glucose, which is just not how fructose is consumed in our daily diet. Using real world conditions, we find that HFCS and other caloric sweeteners do not appear to increase liver fat or contribute to insulin resistance.
Inspired by the Brexit decision of the British people to withdraw from the grasp of the EU bureaucracy, CLEXIT (Climate Exit), a new international organization, has formed to encourage countries' leaders not to ratify the Paris climate agreement. The secretary of CLEXIT, Viv Forbes, said enforcement of the Paris climate treaty would be a global tragedy, heralding the end of low-cost fossil fuel use for transportation and electricity in developed countries while denying developing countries "the benefits of reliable low-cost hydrocarbon energy, compelling them to rely on biomass heating and costly weather-dependent and unreliable power supplies, thus prolonging and increasing their dependency on international handouts."
Ji et al present a methodology to analyse global (excluding Antarctica) spatiotemporal patterns of temperature change, using mean monthly temperatures obtained from the updated Climate Research Unit (CRU) high-resolution gridded climate database. Their analysis fails to take into account several key characteristics of the CRU database, seriously compromising the conclusions regarding the spatiotemporal patterns of global warming during the twentieth century.
Schneiderman justified his investigation with the platitude that the First Amendment "does not give you the right to commit fraud." But courts have struck down laws against "lies" in the political arena. As the Washington state supreme court noted in Rickert v. State Pub. Disclosure Commission (2007), our forefathers "did not trust any government to separate the true from the false for us" in the realm of politics.
Weve already mentioned a few reasons why it does matter. And what matters even more is that there is
Environmentalists (or mainstream Americans) wont suddenly vote Republican because theres a carbon tax. They wont accept the development of Canadas oil sands because there is a carbon tax. They wont suddenly accept Keystone XL because there is a carbon tax.
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How did it come to this? Just two years ago, all things seemed possible for Democrats. In possession of congressional majorities larger than any since 1980, led by a seemingly historic figure who had just won a larger share of the popular vote than any non-incumbent Democrat since FDR in 1932, Democrats forecast an American political sky that would remain endlessly blue. Today, Democrats are headed for a reversal of fortune of proportions not seen since the landslide elections of 1946 and 1948.
Whether its sea ice data, accumulated cyclone energy, the last two brutal German winters, ocean cycles, satellite data, etc., Rahmstorf refuses to believe the data no matter what. The climates after us.
There is considerable evidence that the People's Climate March wasn't as much about climate as it was an excuse for those who want a different political system. If you really believe that capitalism is destroying the Earth and hurting people or even if you don't really believe it then environmentalism becomes a really good excuse to dump capitalism.
The plot in Showed yesterday Agreed With The NOAA announcement That July 2009 was unusually warmNOAA Claims it was even a new record for July based upon Their 100+ year record of global SSTS.
Thats very obvious. We showed the sea surface temperatures for the global oceans have warmed in Figure 2. If the East Pacific data hasnt warmed in 30 years, then the warming has to have come from someplace and logically thats going to be in the sea surface temperature data for the area were calling the Rest-of-the-World. We can see this in a graph that compares East Pacific and Rest-of-the-World sea surface temperature anomalies, Figure 6.
By Mohamed A. El-Erian, Project Syndicate, Aug 14, 2015
" ...all models contain large errors in precipitation simulations, both in terms of mean fields and their annual cycle, as well as their characteristics: the intensity, frequency, and duration of precipitation..."
As of this writing (January 9), it looks like the coldest temperatures in the Lower 48 are yet to come, as the coldest airmass over northwest Canada finds its way down into the central and eastern U.S. starting around next Wednesday (January 14) or so. Gee, where is global warming when you really need it?
"'Socialismo o muerte' ("socialism or death') may be the choice that Fidel Castro has imposed upon Cuba's population for decades, but many Cubans are responding, "Neither.' As The Washington Post reports, Cubans all over the island are resorting to thriving "black market' enterprisea lot of which would be legal just about anywhere else, with the exception of, say, North Korea."
Your best bet is to look at the process that produced, maintains, and communicates the ostensible consensus. I don't know of any exhaustive list of signs of suspicion, but, using climate change as a test study, I propose this checklist as a rough-and-ready list of signs for when to consider doubting a scientific "consensus," whatever the subject. One of these signs may be enough to give pause. If they start to pile up, then it's wise to be suspicious.
The last sentence is one of the best quotes Ive found on global warming from a serious site. Why? you ask. Because the entire melting of the last 3 decades indicates the total global sea ice loss is only .. 4%.
This is only one example by which climate activists can confuse the publicand often even themselvesinto believing that there is a consensus on DAGW. Look at two typical recent headlines:
jamspid on April 26, 2015 at 11:52 pm
This is an outlook I call "growth skepticism." Typically, it professes support for growth in principle but often undermines it in practice. It represents an indirect attack on prosperity rather than a full-frontal assault. It essentially says, "I support growth, but " with emphasis on the "but." To most people, this position is far more convincing than the outright rejection favored by deep greens, supporters of voluntary simplicity, and advocates of steady state economics.
The union spends less locally on lobbying and electioneering, reflecting in part New York City's tighter campaign-finance regulations and the fact that most major health-care policy decisions are made in Albany. Still, 1199 ranks as the top donor in each of the last three citywide election cycles. It has made good use of the new campaign-finance latitude afforded by Citizens Unitedwhich struck down restrictions on political spending by corporations and unionsand related high court decisions, devoting about $440,000 to "independent expenditures" in addition to the $150,000 it gave directly to candidates. Last year, the union donated $250,000 to "Campaign for One New York," Mayor de Blasio's "dark-money" fund that's now bankrolling much of his "Progressive Contract with America."
Dueling Claims About How Global Warming Affects Winters: "The IPCC says global warming makes winter mild with less snow' "Milder winter temps will decrease heavy snowstorms' "Settled science also tells us global warming makes winter cold and snowy in the US Climatologist Dr. Roy Spencer Mocks Gore: OMG! ANOTHER GLOBAL WARMING SNOWSTORM!! "Gore has caused the spread of more pseudo-scientific incompetence on the subject of global warming than any climate scientist could possibly have ever accomplished No serious climate researcher ? including the ones I disagree with ? believes global warming can cause colder weather. Unless they have become delusional as a result of some sort of mental illness'
This new theory contends that variations in the suns energy pulses is clearly the primary driver of earths climate, however another heretofore under-appreciated force contributes greatly to modifying earths climate.
John Walsh, The Independent, 19 January 2010: Some climatologists hint that the Office's problem is political; its computer model of future weather behaviour habitually feeds in government-backed assumptions about climate change that aren't borne out by the facts. To the Met Office, the weather's always warmer than it really is, because it's expecting it to be, because it expects climate change to wreak its stealthy havoc. If it really has had its thumb on the scales for the last decade, I'm afraid it deserves to be shown the door.
So you should understand that as long as Czechs approach this "problem" rationally, they are going to prefer warming over cooling and they are certainly not going to pay a lot of money just for a chance to avoid some warming - even if it were a few degrees. Instead, they are paying millions of dollars for their vacations in much warmer countries (by 15 C). If you look at the map, you will understand that the same thing holds for the bulk of North America and Eurasia.
That exploration and production must go beyond state and private lands, though. Opening more federal onshore and offshore lands to leasing and drilling is essential and would magnify these benefits many times over. These resources belong to all Americans, not only to those who oppose fossil fuel use.
Toyota Recall 2010: Avalon, Lexus Among 1.53 Million Recalled Cars:
Could a carbon tax work in the real world?
Open letter to Al Gore about Global Warming, this in light of House Democrats refusing to allow a debate of the issue with scientists who say it is BS
military strike against Iran's nuclear facilities, and the Sanger book details President Obama's effort to avert a rush to war.
The pipeline, as Marc Morano who publishes CFACT's Climate Depot news and information service recently reported, will carry "ethical oil" from Canada, decreasing dependence on "conflict oil" from dictatorships.
An earlier report on climategate from the House of Commons assumed that a subsequent probe by a panel under Lord Oxburgh, a former academic and chairman of Shell, would deal with the science. The Oxburgh report, though, sought to show only that the science was not fraudulent or systematically flawed, not that it was actually reliable. And nor did Sir Muir, with this third report, think judging the science was his job.
to convince everyone that SS is an insurance program, not a welfare
These claims will be investigated by several competing experiments in the near future. XENON1T is an upgraded XENON experiment before the upgrade, the XENON folks were staunch members of the "dark matter is not seen" axis. However, very soon, a new and so far neutral player could enter the war: LUX in South Dakota ; see also LUX news .
Take environmental writer Steve Zwick. Writing for Forbes.com, Zwick has called on so-called "climate deniers" to be treated like virtual war criminals: "We know who the active denialists are--not the people who buy the lies, mind you, but the people who create the lies," he writes. "Let's start keeping track of them now, and when the famines come, let's make them pay. Let's let their houses burn until the innocent are rescued. Let's swap their safe land for submerged islands. Let's force them to bear the cost of rising food prices. They broke the climate. Why should the rest of us have to pay for it?"
uncertainty and be honest. Phil, hopefully we can find time to discuss these
When asked by McIntyre to provide examples of such activities, instead of responding, Karoly retreats to the cosseted environment of Un-Skeptical Pseudo-Science to resume his victimhood, protesting in the comments:
Man alive, if this isn't the absolute zenith of mental illness in the Left, we sure hope never live to actually see THAT.
However, things get worse for the global warming idea. Problem is that 2010 in the very end of the shown period is in fact a ratherwarmEl Nino year. And still, the trends 2002-2010are just?? flat. Even now after the warm 2010. As if the global warming idea just barely holds on in the months just after a warm 2010.
On May 6, 2014 USGCRP released its National Climate Assessment. The report contains 8 regional reports and one for the 48 . The regional report for the Southeast U.S. projects a major general warming of about 10 F for the region even though The lack of mid-20th century warming in the Southeast is not simulated by the models. However, 21st century simulations of temperature indicate that future warming will be much larger than the observed values for the 20th century. There is no logically reason for this assertion ant the inconsistency between data and models.
Over the past 25 years, there has been no net change in Northern Hemisphere snow cover. The amount of snow in autumn and winter has increased, while spring and summer snow cover has decreased. Note that there has been a large increase in peak snow cover, but no change in the minimum.
Myneni's dull website is getting hundreds of hits a day. How could it possibly collect one billion signatures? Drudgereport.com hasn't seen a billion of distinct visitors. No website with any content produced by an individual has ever seen a billion of visitors.
For this reason, I also agree with Steven Mosher, an independent climate skeptic (with experience in graduate studies in literature and management in 3D graphics companies) who has also co-authored a book about Climategate . In a guest blog post,
"On the contrary, this is the time for international organizations, including the United Nations, to reduce their expenditures, make their administrations thinner, and leave the solutions to the governments of member states," he said.