Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
This last applies to the sun (and the wind), the ultimate source of ???renewable?? energy. The vast majority of sunlight does not provide usable energy given any known technology . True, through photovoltaic conversion, a solar panel in most places can generate an electrical current of some magnitude. But who cares? A hurricane produces many h-bombs worth of mechanical energy???does that make it an energy resource? Not if it can??t be harnessed in a manner that provides the cheap, reliable power that we can use to meet our present and future needs. In the vast majority of cases, solar conversion technology can??t, the energy collected is too dilute and intermittent to be a useful source of large-scale energy.
During the debate, Lord Whitty, former environment minister under the Labor government, claimed 95 percent of scientists were in agreement that man was responsible for a coming climatic cataclysm. Lord Monckton, representing climate realists, asked him to provide a reference backing up the claim. The audience jeered Lord Whitty for having none beyond, "Everyone knows it's true."
An article on Tech Central Station quoted Gray last year as saying that, while some groups and individuals say that hurricane activity lately "may be in some way related to the effects of increased man-made greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, there is no reasonable scientific way that such an interpretation can be made."
Why did he do it? His answer was both angry and anguished: "Climate science has already directed where humanity puts its capability, innovation, mental and material "might' . The price of "climate protection' with its cumulative and collateral effects is bound to destroy and debilitate in great numbers, for decades and generations," he wrote. "We can't pour trillions in this massive hole-digging-and-filling-up endeavor and pretend it's not away from something and someone else."
The Heartlander: September-October 2009 (executive summary)
We are left questioning the realism of a RCP 8.5 scenario. Is there any likelihood of the atmospheric CO2 reaching about 1120 ppm by 2100? IPCC has raised a straw man scenario to give a dangerous global temperature rise of about 3C early in the 22 nd century knowing full well that such a concentration has an extremely low probability of being achieved. But, of course, this is not explained to the politicians and policymakers. They are told of the dangerous outcome if the RCP8.5 is followed without being told of the low probability of it occurring.
Early Global Warming coincided with a slight increase in CO2 emissions, while Global Cooling was paralleled by a dramatic increase in CO2 emissions from 4.0 Gt/yr in 1942 to 20.0 Gt/yr in 1975.
The world is no warmer today than it was in 1998, we cant have people thinking that global warming has stopped. Below is an easy to understand flow diagram on how to deal with global warming skeptics in a cooling world
the screeching at RC in response to my Hantemirov post occurred in comments (see page 4 on) to their Yamal post of May 11, which chronologically was screeching in fury at my post of May 6 about regional reconstructions.
Global Warming Hoax Weekly Round-Up, June 12th 2009
Marshall's observation explains much about Obama's first year. By associating himself so closely with congressional Democrats, Obama became responsible for their every misstep. Their reckless overspending and earmarks became his. Their corrupt deal to buy Senator Ben Nelson's support for nationalized health care became his sordid bargain. Their command-and-control approach to global warming, which will set nationwide limits on energy use and industrial production, became his socialist program.
By 1879, however, naturalist John Muir discovered that the ice had retreated more than 30 miles forming an actual bay. By 1916, the Grand Pacific Glacier the main glacier credited with carving the bay had melted back 60 miles to the head of what is now Tarr Inlet.
"The grotesque mishandling of Britain's energy policy by the politicians of all parties, as they chase their childish chimeras of CO2-induced global warming and windmills, has been arguably the greatest act of political irresponsibility in our history.
With more and longer lateral roots in a future CO 2 -enriched atmosphere, tomato plants (and likely other plants as well) should be better equipped to take up both major and micro nutrients from the soils in which they grow, making them both bigger and better and more apt to produce larger and more nutritious fruit ... and more of it .
Company biologists spent weeks amid the scrub and Joshua trees studying two pairs of eagles to see if they would be harmed by turbines for the 74 megawatt wind farm enough to supply more than 75,000 homes yearly. BLM biologist LaPre, who also studied the situation, did not think an avian protection plan was needed but was overruled by other BLM and wildlife officials.
Three Signs the EPA/Army Corps Water Rule is a Disaster
First, the 400,000 years reconstruction shows huge spikes in temperature, the low point nearest to the zero year on the first graph is the last major ice age 12000 years ago. But it was 9C colder than now or 16 Fahrenheit on average. Think about that, 16 degrees colder all summer long than average, an 80 degree F day today was normally 64. What else we can see is that it went on for a hundred thousand years. A hundred thousand years of 64 degree weather!!!! In the summer! I grew up in Michigan, the weather there is very cold in the winter, typically running 20 degrees F with 0 degrees fairly often. A 16 degree drop on average is unimaginable. Of course Michigan was under a mile thick glacier 15000 years ago.
Reality: There are three things wrong with this statement. First, the stable period referred to is called the Holocene. The Holocene has already lasted 10,000 years, during which time (i) a long term cooling of 1-2 deg. C has occurred; and (ii) regular temperature oscillations of about 1 deg. C have occurred on multidecadal and centennial time scales, the last of which occurred during the 20th century.
Chump, however, is the word that comes to mind when one looks closer at that op-ed. At one point the learned authors say, "According to a United Nations' study, every ton of greenhouse gas emitted into the atmosphere costs each American up to $160and we are emitting billions of tons each year." When you're saying things like that, it helps to do the math to see if the statement passes the laugh test. This one doesn't. The United States produces well over five billion tons of CO2 alone every year. At $160 per ton, this means that the total cost is $800,000,000,000 each year, which is more than the gross domestic product of every state except California. To say the least, this seems unlikely. And this is the charitable interpretation of what they said. It could be read as implying that greenhouse-gas emissions cost each American that sumall 280 million of us.
By Marcelo Rochabrun, Pro Publica, Aug 11, 2015
We dont have to look far for the cause of the variation in temperature between November and March. Its the El Nino Southern Oscillation. Is there any agreement as to the cause of this phenomenon? No. Can we rule it out as a possible cause of climate change? Obviously not.
Its popular among those who want to cut off debate to call skeptics deniers, in large part because it evokes the term holocaust denier and therefore marginalizes criticism of catastrophic man-made global warming theory.
Both Carter and Clinton were nominated when Democrats feared that more openly liberal candidates were unelectable. But over the last 20 years, when Democrats have won the popular vote in five of six presidential elections, Democratic primary voters have come to insist on liberal purity.
The background is that here in the land of OZ, on our ABC (public funded TV, ie arm of big-government) there is a duo called John Clark and Bryan Dawe who do a weekly prime-time spot. Their pattern is to pretend to be a politician or two and bat questions back and forward. At the bottom of this post is a Youtube video of them on Climate Change from two years ago. You can see an archive of them here. Deadpan is the usual delivery.
The GAO report confirms suspicions that the administration is less interested in the costs of reducing emissions controls than in acquiring the controls themselves.
During his closing remarks at the Heartland Institutes Seventh International Conference on Climate Change, Heartland President Joseph Bast revealed that the group has no plans to hold another conference and is struggling to pay its staff following the defections of corporate sponsors in the wake of the disastrous Unabomber billboard campaign and Deniergate document dump .
Yesterday, Labour Party leader, Ed Miliband, chastised his counterpart, Conservative Party leader David Cameron, as the BBC reports
Apparently it never occurs to them that the warming they were so concerned about is simply part of earths background (and perfectly normal) climate cycles. And the cold now is not proof of warming but simply a result in phase change in one or more of earths cycles.
Most outrageous of all, though, was how ill-prepared the region was for another major storm and how many political decisions had virtually ensured that any repeat of the 1893, 1938, 1944 and other storms would bring devastation far worse than would likely have occurred in the absence of those decisions.
But that commitment to transparency has been flouted throughout the government, especially in Holder's own Justice Department. In March 2014, the Associated Press reported that "more often than ever, the administration censored government files or outright denied access to them last year under the U.S. Freedom of Information Act ." Similarly, The Wall Street Journal concluded that this is "the least transparent administration." The situation has continued to worsen in 2014 and 2015, according to the Associated Press.
Joe Bastardi Discusses The Record August Weather Turnaround
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February, 1936 : Montana Was 26 Degrees Below Normal
2. "We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation," wrote Washington University biologist Barry Commoner in the Earth Day issue of the scholarly journal Environment.
Most of the time, the three bodies are not located at a line at all. Instead, they're vertices of a triangle. The Sun acts like a light bulb that can make an otherwise dark Moon look bright. If this light bulb is located somewhere on the left side from the Moon (imagine that you are looking at the Moon from the Earth), the left half of the moon will be illuminated and the right side will remain dark; the Moon will look like a "C". If the Sun is on the right side, the left half will remain dark while the right side is illuminated and the Sun will look like a "D".
A group of Democratic attorneys general have suffered another blow in their bid to find oil-giant Exxon Mobil guilty of fraud in a highly-politicized climate change investigation.
Groups including the Sierra Club, Washington Environmental Council, and Climate Solutions are fighting the proposal because, rather than using the revenues generated by the tax to fund programs they support, the initiative aims to be revenue-neutral, cutting tax rates and ending the Business and Occupation tax for manufacturers.
GE's CEO Jeffrey Immelt wants the U.S. government to set a long-term price for carbon so the U.S. can compete with China in the green energy market.
As I mentioned earlier, carbon taxes will not be in lieu of regulations and standards, they will be on top of . I have never heard a single environmentalist or regulator offer to rescind vehicle fuel economy standards, appliance standards, renewable fuel standards, or anything else in place of a carbon tax.
"They're arriving at airports across the country. Some complain they are invasive and an assault on our privacy. But are body scanners at security checkpoints dangerous?"
Myron Ebell, Director of Energy and Global Warming Policy mebell@cei.org
In depressing testimony to how far America has strayed from its Constitution and founding principles, we have reached the point where congressmen can lavish key supporters with tax dollars and in return get votes, campaign contributions, rallies and volunteers on our campuses and be assured of vicious retribution against the families of anyone rash enough to run against them.
It seems depending on who you talk to, climate sensitivity is either underestimated or overestimated. In this case, a model suggests forcing is underestimated. One thing is clear, science does not yet know for certain what the true climate sensitivity to CO2 forcings is.
It's like these commercials were directed by Susan Traversy, they're so crazy.
Climate Change Analyst jobs are not expected to see much growth beyond their current levels in the next decade.
I never used the name of the club in signing my name. Therefore, I must be understood that I did it in my own way to help a friend. Besides, the letter was well written and there seem nothing is unpleasant for me to extend a little help.
The El Nio years are isolated in Figures 8 and 9. Using the El Nio years as defined by Nuccitelli, Figure 8, it could be argued that the warming rate of global surface temperatures slowed in recent years but its for a short time period, but with the NOAA method, the warming rate of El Nio years have definitely slowed, Figure 9.
Everything in the Working Group II report depends entirely on Working Group I.
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Piereson, in addition to being naive to say that Piketty was not a committed socialist, also seems to have a problem, not realizing that capitalism, unfettered by government overreach is not what we have at the presentwe have an administrative state that picks winners and losers and influences prices and borrowing and interest rates and so much more.
Did the midterm elections break the polarized fever in Washington? Will we now have an era of cooperation, legislation and compromise, with, as soon-to-be Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has said, a return to the regular order in the Senate of bipartisan committee action, open amendments on the floor and a broken logjam of accumulated bills awaiting action for the past few years? In a word: No.
If it were not for the charismatic and diligent leadership of one man, America and the rest of the industrialized world might not have understood the expense and the socialistic aspects of the proposed Copenhagen treaty until it was way too late. Let us send a "heart" out to the Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, otherwise known as Lord Christopher Monckton of the Science and Public Policy Institute (SPPI), for his tireless efforts in the past two months.Monckton and the scholars at SPPI, have been critics of the theory of "anthropogenic global warming" for years. As Copenhagen's treaty summit drew nearer, Monckton went public in an unprecedented way. A YouTube video of him speaking October 14, 2009 in Minnesota was "viral" within days. It has been viewed more than 2.5 million times.
Can they find protection in the shade of beachfront mangroves? In a word, yes. This "previously undocumented refuge for corals provides evidence for adaptation of coastal organisms and ecosystem transition due to recent climate change," and that is great news for these valuable marine organisms
The devil, as they say is in the details. In each of the steps there is some leeway for, shall we say, intervention. The early criticisms of Mann et al.??s analyses were confined to relatively minor points about the presence of autocorrelated errors, linear specification, etc. But a funny thing happened on the way to Copenhagen: a couple of Canadian researchers, McIntyre and McKitrick , found that when they ran simulations of ???red noise?? random principal components data into Mann??s reconstruction model, 99% of the time it produced the same hockey stick pattern . They attributed this to Mann??s method / time frame for selecting of principal components.
In summation, with the passage of time, more and more evidence is accumulating that suggests the impacts of ocean acidification on echinoderms may not be as bad as many initially thought. Indeed, for many echinoderm species, the impacts will likely be minimal, if not altogether positive.
The critics of the atmospheric greenhouse effect have been relentless in their attacks. They continue to blast holes in the theory, whose roots go back to the traditional works of Fourier (1824), Tyndall (1861), and Arrhenius (1896).
"It's almost like he can't admit he made a mistake," Morano told FoxNews.com. "He needs to say it was a brain fart, at the very least."
Yet temperature data from thousands of stations of vastly lower quality around the world used without adjustment to prove global warming are bound to carry far more errors that we know little or nothing about. And the adjustments at Cobar alone are as large as the claimed rate of global warming over decades.
Worth far more mockery is a much older TV appearance. Viewer warning, the clip below features unedited hippies in a commune-type environment listening to a younger Suzuki talking, well, balls.
This dynamic is familiar from our tax code, coupling high rates with myriads of exemptions, privileges and special rules for favored industries and activities.
Spotting Talent. Last July, in its series on talented young economists under 40, The American profiled Esther Duflo, an up-and-coming economist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She told The American that her research goal is to determine "on the most micro level, how people make decisions, and how poverty changes the way people make decisions." Others are recognizing her promise. She was recently named one of twenty-four MacArthur Fellows by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and will receive a $500,000 grant from the foundation.
Fortunately, science provides a procedure for resolving concerns about possible bias: replication. This eliminates the need to speculate because it requires full disclosure of data and procedures. It allows researchers to assess, for example, whether unexplained revisions in the data might consistently favor one hypothesis, as has been shown, for example, in research supporting forecasts of global warming.
already mentioned: Thornborough Henges, Knowlton Circles, Stanton Drew stone circles, Arbor Low;
The Motion Picture Association of America has come out against net neutrality sort of. In its filing with the FCC late last week, the MPAA reminded the commission of the importance of content companies in driving new infrastructure technologies, and claims that protecting these content companies (i.e. forcing ISPs to filter out file-sharers) is vital for the future health of the internet. >>Liberty Week PodcastEpisode 67: Cash for Kids in Court
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Just to be absolutely clear on what the CDC and other government bodies are funding here through HHS: this isnt documentary or factual television were talking about, but inserting references to global warming into fictional TV shows and movies.
EPA's terrible performance is important for a number of reasons. First and foremost, by ignoring its mandatory responsibilities under the Clean Air Act, the agency frees up resources to pursue discretionary regulationsnamely, climate rules. That is, the agency is free lancing. This raises serious questions whether the EPA is faithfully executing the Clean Air Act, as is required by the Constitution.
President Clinton stated that for the U.S. to do its part, "we must first convince the American people that the climate change problem is real and imminent." He promised to "personally . . . take a role . . . so that our people understand why we must act." He repeated the Administration's position that the industrialized nations must sign the treaty with binding emissions reductions and establish an international trading system for emission allowances.
Although critics may well dispute Castles and Henderson's work (the IPCC itself is reviewing it now), at the very least it vividly demonstrates the difficulty of making reliable, long-term projections about such complex matters, and the degree to which outcomes are driven by the assumptions that are used to construct complex forecasting models.
The paper's findings were, however, inconclusive, as the predicted range of heat waves for 2080-2099 overlapped with the modeled range for the current climate. In other words, the paper found that the number of heat waves might decrease in 80 years' time. Moreover, the models also relied on the discredited SRES scenarios referred to above.
> >> a more usable risk assessment framework. Such a framework
To meet its Kyoto targets, Canada would have to reduce its energy emissions by 28 percent below the levels that would otherwise be reached in 2010. This would mean raising gasoline prices by 24 cents a liter and doubling natural gas prices. This could also hurt Canadian industry's ability to compete in international markets, since they are already a comparatively high-cost producer (Financial Times, October 26, 1999).
That governments at all levels should "ignore any plea for money to fund global climate change or "climate justice' initiatives."
Al Gore and the climate crowd couldn't wait to exploit the situation by blaming it on global warming. They know no shame and think we are blind to the facts. Professor Roger Pielke, Jr. dispelled that nonsense by rolling out the data.
Consider some of the statements posted on climatedepot.com from scientists who question the honesty of those producing climate change evidence.
And temperatures at the North Pole (fastest warming place on Earth) are also running cold, after the coldest summer on record.
Then we have the discovery of the shale gas resources all around the planet. Even Israel finally has some domestic energy resources. How unconventional is that? Australia just announced a huge find. China has massive gas resources. A preliminary assessment says including shale gas we have enough gas for the next couple of hundred years.
There are attempts in the paper to link the supposed increase in tornado intensity to climate change. Elsner goes further in an earlier presentation , saying
Despite its oft-quoted "likely mostly" conclusion mentioned earlier, the NRC was also quite clear in expressing the extent of the uncertainty remaining in the science when it comes to assessing the influence of humans on the climate.
Domestic oil has the advantage of flowing free of foreign tyrants and turmoil, but the supply is currently limited to 42 percent of the nation's needs. Allowing production in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) and other new U.S. sites would only dent, but not substantially reduce, our dependence on foreign crude.
But even rich nations will be more serious about getting the job done if they can do it cheaply. Virtually every economic study suggests that there could be substantial savings to designing a market-based program for greenhouse gases, similar to the U.S. allowance-trading to reduce sulfur dioxide emissions, which gives business flexibility in meeting prescribed targets.
Monbiot made the mistake of pretending that he understood the fundamental equation of radiative transfer, of which he had plainly not previously heard.
Not one of these operations will survive if forced to use costly and unreliable wind or solar power.
On the specific issue of whether the planned chronology of Briffa et al 2013 would differ from the 2006 regional chronology, Schmidt and I could not have been more in agreement.
Snowfall was also expected elsewhere in the Inland Empire above 8,000 fee t, the weather service stated. Heavy precipitation was expected in the San Jacinto Mountains east of Hemet.