Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
The four researchers report that "none of the plants grown under high levels of CO 2 for 90 days presented either significant differences in fresh weight and dry weight compared with controls, or macroscopic alteration of morphogenesis (number and length of nodes/internodes, branching, leaf area and chlorosis, etc.), at any of the sampling times." However , they did find that "in plants grown under elevated CO 2 , a relative increase in oil yield of 32, 34 and 32% was, respectively, recorded in the first, second and third sampling-time (July, August and September)," and they observed a "general depression of the oxidative stress under elevated CO 2 " that led to a "down-regulation of leaf reactive oxygen species-scavenging enzymes under elevated CO 2 ." What it means
In 1906, forecasts depended on 28 unknowns. By 2007, scientists from the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology were using 73. So insisting that just one variable ? atmospheric carbon-dioxide levels ? will drive future monsoons is unscientific.
Alex Cull on June 18, 2008 at 12:27 pm
The science that will be put forward will be as unremittingly bogus as we have been hearing and reading since the late 1980s when the global warming hoax was launched.
The rise in dissent in the corridors of power is matched by a new willingness among impartial observers to review the very cornerstone of climate alarmism, the so-called greenhouse gas theory which researchers at Principia Scientific International (PSI) say is also refuted. One of PSI's leading climatologists, Professor Ole Humlum of the University of Olso recently published a telling study in the respected Global and Planetery Journal that used only approved government-sourced data to prove that temperatures rose before levels of carbon dioxide (CO2). Professor Humlum and his team concluded: "Changes in ocean temperatures explain a substantial part of the observed changes in atmospheric CO2 since January 1980. Changes in atmospheric CO2 are not tracking changes in human emissions.
John: Climategate, Copenhagen, conflict of interest, Glaciergate. Blizzards in the northern hemisphere. Anything to do with Climate Change, actually. Its all gone to custard.
By Paul Homewood h/t Sunshine Hours http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/oct/09/why-is-antarctic-sea-ice-at-record-levels-despite-global-warming According to Professor Turner, expanding Antarctic sea ice was the last thing climate scientists expected. Meanwhile, the Guardian also report: Dr Guy Williams, a sea ice scientist at the Tasmanian Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (Imas) , In some ways its a bit counterintuitive for people trying to understand how global warming is affecting our polar regions, but in fact its actually completely in line with how climate scientists expect Antarctica and the Southern Ocean to respond. And they wonder why people dont take them seriously.
Should the actual recorded data of world temperature, sea levels, storms, droughts, floods and all the rest be banned from our classrooms? Is comparing this data to the pronouncements of highly funded global warming pressure groups heresy?
IPCC wanted to prove human CO2 was causing global warming as part of their belief that industrialized populations would exhaust all resources and had to be shut down. Their only objective was to show human production was steadily, inexorably increasing. Their calculations predetermine that, because human CO2 production is directly linked to population increase. A population increase guarantees a CO2 increase. It is another of their circular arguments that has no basis in science.
Vsevolod Gavrilov, head of the department of natural resources at the Russian Economic Development and Trade Ministry, said, "We will try to ratify the pact within a year, but we cannot make it by the time the World Summit on Sustainable Development is held."
John Tierney puts together a good summary of the discoveries from the emails and code that is worth reading. Here are some thought-provoking remarks from his conclusion.
\] Whenever this inequality holds, there is some correlation. Entanglement means that there is a correlation, using the language of quantum mechanics. An entangled state in combination with the laws of quantum mechanics produces or predicts correlations in various quantities that couldn't be extracted from any classical model . But that shouldn't be shocking. Classical physics is a fundamentally different kind of a theory so it gives fundamentally different predictions than quantum mechanics does. So there is absolutely no reason to expect that their predictions should agree with the other side, that one framework should be easily "emulated" by the other. Quantum mechanics cannot be emulated by classical physics; classical physics may be just approximately emulated by quantum mechanics in a classical limit.
Expect global cooling for the next 2-3 decades that will be far more damaging than global warming would have been??
Date: 11/06/ 2013 Dr David Whitehouse
"... Found little or no evidence for on-going positive sea level acceleration for the tide gauges located in the North Sea in between 1870 and the late 1980's of the sort suggested for the 20 th century Itself by climate models. "
President Obama has picked Harvard Law Professor Elizabeth Warren to run the new Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection--but he's managed to bypass a Senate vote on her nomination through a technicality.
Not anymore. The ozone hole closing is counter-acting the warming affect. But this study is still using models, read here . The models depend on the temperature increasing. What if the temperature doesnt follow the rules? And it has not over the last decade plus.
1. A winning short-term strategy for politicians in developed countries is to talk tough on climate change but do relatively little. The appearance of doing something can go a long way toward assuaging the concerns of most citizens while helping to neutralize pressures from environmental groups.
Now correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't it the aerosols that were supposed to have prevented warming taking off at the predicted rates in the past? And now their influence is slight?
The adjacent chart plots the scientific empirical evidence - the globe naturally cycles through periods of extreme cooling and warming. And as the evidence reveals, the Obama/Kerry climate-porn duo exist during a period of cooling, not the extreme accelerating global warming that they claim.
Pupils and teachers being used as human guinea pigs to test the green experiment. Despite all the complaints, authorities have taken no action and are playing down the problems. According to teacher and administrator Andrea Eisenbltter:
Chaos artificial reservoir correction to sea level . This correction to Church and Whites sea level dataleads t0a (supposed)larger sea level rise during the 20th century. But this correction has some critical flaws.
But I suppose thats just not good politics. Better to curse someone else for the darkness than to light a candle
Canadian Forest Company Seeks Millions from Greenpeace in U.S. Courts
Now, I know that Curry doesn't want to win against Mann. She doesn't want to set the precedent that thin-skinned scientists can run around bullying their critics. So she should sue with the goal of making a settlement: that she will drop Curry vs. Mann?if he drops Mann vs. Steyn. It's a kind of mutually assured destruction for censorship.
Yet Taylor also points out that there are few environmental benefits accruing from such government orders. The Energy Information Administration has calculated that 80 percent of renewable energy needed to comply with such mandates will come from biomass fed into existing coal-fired plants. A recent survey by Thomas Sundqvist and Patrik Soderholm found that every kilowatt of energy produced from biomass has an external cost of 7 cents worth of environmental damage. This compares unfavorably to nuclear energy (4 cents), is about the same as for energy from natural gas, and only slightly less than coal-fired electricity (9 cents).
Barking madness in the New York Times: Global warming blamed for coldest winter in China in 30 years and many other extreme cold events; story illustrated with a photo of snow on the palm trees of Jerusalem
Putin disagrees, but hopes Obama goes on thinking as he does.
Rothbard warns that ?Global warming campaigners see this presidency and the Paris U.N. Summit as the best chance they are likely to see to take control of American energy. The ramifications are disastrous for American freedom and prosperity.?
Bear in mind that a proportion of those comments is orchestrated and for all we know there are only a handful of people with multiple electronic personas each, who are paid to create disproportionate noise.
CEI Expert Available to Comment: General Counsel Sam Kazman on CNN on the debate over SUV safety:
These historic changes in land level-dramatic or gradual- will have been taken into account in academic studies (although there is not unanimity over the rate of change). However all these factors demonstrate that accurate sea level reconstruction is problematic.
Figure 1:Sine wave characteristic of the 60/65-year ocean cycle(Source: Bob Tisdale atWUWT).
Baliunas: Yes, the correlation is very strong. For the temperature records going back on Earth, we can reconstruct the Northern Hemisphere about 250 years or so. And the ups and downs of temperature match almost exactly the ups and downs and change in magnetism, and so, the energy output of the sun. . . .
Once again, we have another example of climate-alarmist (IPCC) contentions widely missing the mark when it comes to predicting which temperature extreme - hot or cold - produces both more frequent and more intense precipitation events, as well as the flooding that accompanies them.
The Wall Street Journal editorial's concluding comment is spot on: "In the department of inconvenient truths, this one surely deserves a closer look by the media, the U.S. Congress and other investigative bodies."
To some extent, her policies were motivated by politics: with a candidate running to her left, she banked left. But she isn t the only one to favor government solutions. Sen. Barack Obama supports mandates too (if not quite as expansively) and a major expansion of government.
First, congrats to many millions of people who can remain in this country, a status they should have always have had. We can argue whether anyone who makes his or her way over the border should be able to vote or draw benefits, but there is no doubt in my mind that they should be able to live anywhere they can pay the rent and work anywhere that there is an employer willing to pay them.
Residents of Pretoria, named after an early war hero of the white Afrikaners who later invented apartheid, won a battle last year to keep the capital city's name on the map, albeit as part of a broader metropolitan area called Tshwane. Next year those towns celebrating British royalty and other figures will be under scrutiny, and several may face the chop. Two that look set to go are the industrial city of Port Elizabeth, named after the wife of a Cape Colony governor, and George, a sleepy town on the south coast, more famous for its lush golf courses than the English king to whom it pays homage. National Geographical Names Council chairman Tommy Ntsewa said: "Personally, I would support such a move, because why should we be honouring King George? For what? For colonising us?"
Synthetic bovine growth hormone (also known as rbST) is widely administered to dairy cows to increase milk production. According to the Food and Drug Administration but contrary to the Stonyfield ad rbST is safe to humans and cows. Milk from cows given rbST contains no more bovine growth hormone than milk from cows not treated with rbST.
The Science and Public Policy Institute has been asked to comment on the apparent inconsistency between the news that July 2012 was the warmest July since 1895 in the contiguous United States and the news that the Meteorological Office in the UK has cut its global warming forecast for the coming years. The present paper is a response to that interesting question.
Even under the worst case scenario warming, when the usual method of comparing the cost and benefit of policy is used, it is more cost effective to deal with any problems that occur than to pay to try to stop them.
The climate change causes war argument is the nexus of the two main preoccupations of risk- and security-obsessed politics, also known as the politics of fear. The surprising outcome of the politics of fear is that it produces more of what its agents claim to eliminate. The Bush-Blair doctrine of eliminating the risk of terrorists seems instead to have unleashed a horrific and savage Islamic movement that has capitalised on the chaos and power vacuum left in their wake. A similar paradox emerges from the arguments of those who want to eliminate the risk of climate change. As has been explained here, environmentalism is a self-fulfilling prophecy . That is to say that incautious attempts to mitigate climate change risk increasing societys vulnerability to the climate.
Well start with the energy imbalance in anomaly form. We presented the outgoing shortwave radiation (Figure 6) and outgoing longwave radiation (Figure 9) as anomalies to show the differences between the individual models. But for the energy imbalance, Figure 11, theyre presented as anomalies to show how similar the curves are. That is, there were amazing differences in the basic curve shapes and trends of the individual model simulations of outgoing longwave and shortwave radiation, but remarkably, though not unexpectedly, the basic curves of the modeled TOA energy imbalance are much more similar in shape.
Dr. MANN: This very unprecedented warmth of the 20th century had ahad ahad a very close relationship with the increase in greenhouse gases during the past century.
133. As with his previous legal threats and actions, Plaintiff has brought this lawsuit for the purpose of wrongfully interfering with critics? statutorily protected right of advocacy on an issue of great public interest and constitutionally protected free-speech rights.
Newt Gingrich: Even if he's not a presidential contender, the former House speaker is still the best political ideas man in the business. As such, he's a powerful draw on the speech and lecture circuitand a force for other Republicans to reckon with.
Many people have urged me to sue Mann; I can?t be bothered and I don?t have money to throw away on such stuff?. Further, I would like to stand up for Michael Mann?s right to make insulting and defamatory tweets, statements in op-eds, etc. As an American, I am pretty attached to the right to free speech.
Also, there are controversial studies linking cosmic ray fluxes to cloudiness and climate change on Earth. That link may be tested in the years ahead.
The host of the interview starts by telling the audience that climate scientists have come under pressure because the average temperature indeed has not risen in 15 years . Kirchhof:
"The agency estimates a 20 percent increase in global nuclear generation until the end of 2020, followed by a decrease, resulting in global nuclear generation in 2030 that will be only 12 percent higher than in 2002. Nuclear power's share of global electricity generation is projected at 12 percent in 2030, compared with 16 percent in 2002, the IAEA said.
When the winds are from the west, air rises on the western side of the Olympics (producing heavy rain) and descends on the eastern slopes (causing drying).
An isolated observation? From a 2007 PDF file, "ExxonMobil's Tobacco-like Disinformation Campaign on Global Warming Science" at the Union of Concerned Scientists' site:
So Global Warming causes droughts up until a week ago. No doubt they are working on a paper that proves that Global Warming can cause a flood now and then. A peer reviewed article in Nature will appear soon. Data freely available on request except of course to anyone who has dealings with CA. Thats the way science is done after all.
Snowcover hangs toughwith warm Gulf of Mexicospells spring trouble
I'm starting to think that not occupying schoolyards with pitchforks and burning tires is a failed parent-teacher night.
In relation to the wider world, however, most people's support for economic growth and its resulting prosperity is likely to be heavily qualified. Indeed, it is remarkable how many lines of attack against prosperity exist.
"Even if only a few of the proposed projects are built, hundreds of square miles of wild land will be scraped clear. Several thousand miles of power transmission corridors will be created.
Implying that it might not be, the eight researchers note that "broadleaf deciduous stands are characterized by higher leaf moisture loading and lower flammability and rate of wildfire ignition and initiation than needleleaf evergreen stands," citing the work of Paatalo (1998), Campbell and Flannigan (2000) and Hely et al. (2001). And they therefore speculate that the introduction of broadleaf trees into dense needleleaf evergreen landscapes "could decrease the intensity and rate of spread of wildfires, improving suppression effectiveness, and reducing wildfire impacts," citing the studies of Amiro et al. (2001) and Hirsch et al. (2004). But to be more confident about this line of reasoning, they proceeded to conduct their own study of the subject.
TIME Magazine June 1974: Another Ice Age? Follow The Money
US climate expert Professor Judith Curry said last night: In fact, the uncertainty is getting bigger. Its now clear the models are way too sensitive to carbon dioxide. I cannot see any basis for the IPCC increasing its confidence level.
This is a defense commonly employed against FOIA requests when seeking to withhold certain communications with, for example, paid consultants.
This makes "arguments in support of intelligent design sound rigorous by comparison".
Next, Monckton discusses the Stefan-Boltzmann equation and the huge range of temperature changes published in the literature for a doubling of CO2. Moncktons own calculation, based on IPCC 2007, is 1.6C for a doubling of CO2, but the IPCC says 3C. He points out that Svante Arrhenius calculated a 4C to 8C temperature change for a doubling of CO2 in 1896, but in 1906, he had the Stefan-Boltzmann equation available to him and re-calculated everything to give 1.6C.
Carbon cycling was much smaller during last ice age than in todays climate Atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) is one of the most important greenhouse gases and the increase of its abundance in the atmosphere by fossil fuel burning is the main cause of future global warming. In past times, during the transition between an ice age and a warm period, atmospheric CO2 concentrations changed by some 100 parts per million (ppm) from an ice age value of 180 ppm to about 280 ppm during warm periods.
Dem AG Backs Down in Exxon Climate Fight
UK likely to miss its emissions reduction targets.
HAYDEN: Okay, Moose. We can go. But I have to see mother first.
The major enforcement mechanisms that have emerged in international discussions are carbon tariffs and related trade sanctions on non-adhering exporters in international trade.The use of trade policy to enforce GHG mitigation agreements, however, could strain the international trading structure that has been so globally valuable, yet very difficult to assemble in the first place. Consider how long it takes to negotiate multilateral or even bilateral trade agreements, such as those ongoing between the US and the EU.
To the extent that the world did implement some kind of internationally harmonized carbon tax regime, as my friend and colleague Ben Zycher at AEI has argued, it would almost certainly result in a tax set too high, and undermined by offsetting competitive behavior (auto industry subsidies, for example) among different regimes.
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Director of Global Warming Policy Myron Ebell on the implications of the G8 communiqu.
The primary weakness of ACESA is its GHG reduction program. The U.S. should, indeed, put a modest price on GHG emissions, but ACESA's abatement costs are likely to be far too high. Its regulatory mandates can only increase the net costs, and ACESA's goals are at odds with the strategic logic of the GHG control problem, which is essentially the subject of an international bargain about cost sharing.
The WTO's able and indefatigable Director General, Pascal Lamy, has acknowledge that after a decade of intense deliberations, Doha Round negotiations are in "paralysis." Rather than picking over the bones of Doha, the December Ministerial should be devoted to clearing the decks and then beginning the complicated process of planning for a future agenda-if and when the elusive "political will" ever reappears among the political leaders of WTO members.
The skepticism is up from an already high 48 percent of pastors in 2008 who somewhat or strongly disagreed with the strong scientific consensus on manmade global warming.
Following on from the no snow by 2050 story earlier today , the ABC gleefully reports more doom and gloom on the state of the alpine catchments. Perhaps they thought nobody would check:
Housing. Housing turns out to be a relative bargain in terms of indirect energy consumption, accounting for less than 10 percent of all indirect energy consumption (see table 6). This includes the use of not only the physical structure of the dwelling, but items like home furnishings, furniture, china, glassware, tableware, utensils, kitchen equipment, and cleaning and polishing solutions. In fact, maintenance (cleaning, polishing, and preparation) is the second largest indirect energy consumption component after the housing unit itself.
But temperatures may also fall in the future so this is not a definition of anything.
It is more likely that the cost of climate action will end up costing upwards of twice as much as climate inaction in this century areasonable estimate could be 2.8% of GDP towards the end of the century.
Carlo Stagnaro of Istituto Bruno Leoni reports:
NASA is constantly cooling the past and warming the present in order to make it appear that Hansens theories arent the miserable failure which they actually are.
Using data collected between 1976 and 2008, the authors conclude that a longer growing season has boosted marmots?? individual size, overall strength and general population. The average weight of fully grown marmots jumped from 6.82 pounds in the early years of the study to 7.56 pounds in the later half of the study.
On April 1, the California Senate's Environmental Quality Committee approved a bill that would limit carbon dioxide emissions from car tailpipes on a 5 to 2 party-line vote, with Democrats voting in favor and Republicans against. The bill passed the California Assembly on January 31.
As the cost of government measures to combat climate change hit households and businesses, a new study published by the Global Warming Policy Foundation casts grave doubts on the validity of the Stern Review of the Economics of Climate Change which the government relies on to justify its policies.
The Minoan Warming period had temperatures that possibly exceeded current temperatures by 1C, in spite of lower CO2 levels.
accordingly? Smart presidents don't wait until they are hit upside the head with
Bloomberg's Low Carbon Footprint Plan
Date: April 28, 2010 Time: 7:00 pm Central DST
Consistency across indicators is important to finishing high in the rankings; there is much lower variance on subindices for top performers than for worse performers. In fact, the worst performers often do well in one or two subindices, rather than fail in all of them. The top fourteen countries have consistently high ratings. Only two countries, Yemen and Zimbabwe, have consistently poor indicators.
Mad as it may sound, Danish researchers have announced a theory that may not only explain why people all over the world are getting fatter and fatter, but also warn of the serious consequences for life on Earth of continued pollution of the atmosphere by CO2 emissions. In itself, the theory is quite simple: CO2 contributes to making us fat.