Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
And things do not look much better for ethanol made from cellulose crops, such as switch grass. Kreider and Curtiss estimate that switch grass would require between 146 and 149 gallons of water per gallon of ethanol produced from cellulose depending on the scale of production. Thus, meeting the Bush administration's target of 35 billion gallons of renewable and alternative fuels production in the United States by 2017 with cellulosic ethanol would require about 5 trillion gallons of water per year. That is a bit more than the average annual flow of the Colorado River, which the Southern Nevada Water Authority lists at 15 million acre-feet, or a little under 5 trillion gallons.
If my name were Ken Cuccinelli I would want to chase down one or two grant and funding sources; with proof of collusion a case for fraud holds water. That's treble damages and Virginia's taxpayers will be sitting $1.5 million better off plus expenses.
Trees are growing at an accelerated rate due to global warming, scientists conclude in a new peer-reviewed study. The study documents faster tree growth in recent decades and concludes longer growing seasons and rising atmospheric carbon dioxide levels are stimulating the benefits.A team of European forestry scientists analyzed growth rates of Norway spruce and European beech trees ??? the dominant tree species in Central Europe ??? since 1870. The scientists discovered both species are growing substantially faster since 1960 than in the decades before 1960. Norway spruce trees are growing a healthy 32 percent faster since 1960, while European beech trees are growing an astounding 77 percent faster since 1970. Boosted by this accelerated growth, the volume of Norway spruce stands is increasing 10 percent faster than prior to 1960, while the volume of European beech stands is increasing 30 percent faster than prior to 1960.
But that doesn't stop an enviro-predator like Robert F. Kennedy Jr. from writing on the Huffingtonpost website: "Now we are all learning what it's like to reap the whirlwind of fossil fuel dependence which Barbour and his cronies have encouraged. Our destructive addiction has given us a catastrophic war in the Middle East andnowKatrina is giving our nation a glimpse of the climate chaos we are bequeathing our children."
It is a unique pattern of changing climate whose detection would suggest that recent warming is caused by greenhouse gases from human activities, as opposed to natural processes.
(Note: 1 Mega electron Volt = 1.60217646 10 -13 joules)
The ultimate First World roadblock: Africa spends virtually no money on developing new high-yield seedsbut thanks to Europe it already has a complete set of environmental regulatory hurdles ready to block biotech crops on the grounds of unproven risks to "food and environmental safety." The regulators seem to ignore the obvious potential benefits such as food security and wildlands preservation.
Losing Green Jobs September 19, 2010 by Al Gore
"Limousines, the very symbol of wealth and excess, are usually the domain of corporate executives and the rich. But the number of limos owned by Uncle Sam increased by 73 percent during the first two years of the Obama administration, according to an analysis of records by iWatch News."
===> The greatest warming (acceleration) trends ever recorded took place during the 1870s; the largest cooling trends occurred during the late 1870s and early 1880s.
WEFA, Inc. has released its analysis of the cost of complying with Kyoto. U.S. citizens in the year 2010 would see job losses, lower incomes and price increases across the board. Food prices would increase 11 percent, medicine 14 percent, and housing 7 percent. Real income for a household of four would drop by $2,700 in 2010. And 2.4 million jobs would disappear. Gasoline would rise by $.65 per gallon and home heating oil would rise by 70 percent (Investor's Business Daily, June 15, 1998).
A member of Russia's Duma, Vladimir Grachev, told the BBC (March 22, 2002) that, "The Kyoto Protocol for industrial gas emission cuts has turned into "a smoke screen' for diktat in international trade and it no longer promotes improvement of the ecological situation in the world."
Surface temperatures will continue to increase Lower stratospheric temperature will remain at about current levels Total ozone will increase, exceeding 1980 levels as soon as 2025
Canada Says it Will Ratify, Oil Chiefs Attack
The security dimension of the U.S.-India partnership is also critical as reflected in the death of American citizens in the deadly Mumbai attacks of November 2008. The two countries have military-to-military ties, deepening arms sales and a common desire to defend the domains of cyber and outer space. Counter-terrorism cooperation is at an all-time high, and American intelligence support was appreciated at the recent Commonwealth Games in New Delhi.
After 2.5 years of atmospheric CO 2 exposure, seedlings fumigated with air containing 700 ppm CO 2 exhibited rates of net photosynthesis that were 128 and 31% greater than those of control seedlings growing on soils containing high and low nitrogen contents, respectively. Neither elevated CO 2 nor soil nitrogen content, however, had any significant effects on seedling stomatal conductances . In addition, rates of dark respiration were increased by 22 and 9% in CO 2 -enriched seedlings growing on soils containing high and low nitrogen contents, respectively. Nonetheless, the net direction of carbon flow was into and not out of seedlings, as indicated by 34 and 13% increases in total dry mass production for seedlings growing on nitrogen-rich and nitrogen-poor soils, respectively. In addition, elevated CO 2 increased seedling stem density by 23 and 13% at low and high levels of soil nitrogen, respectively.
Donald Trump plans to "roll back progress" on climate change, energy and the environment, activists, regulators and their media allies assert. The claim depends on one's definition of "progress."
"Thick spring ice near shore drives seals to give birth elsewhere because they cannot maintain their breathing holes in the ice," Crockford wrote on her blog. "This leaves mothers emerging from onshore dens with newborn cubs with nothing to eat at a time when they desperately need food: cubs die quickly, mothers more slowly."
There were no surface observations under that storm. But we can see the total precipitation for the entire thunderstorm period (based on radar) in the following figure. Keep in mind that radar-based precipitation totals are rough estimates and that the north Cascades blocked a lot of the radar echo. Clearly, the eastern side of the Cascades was hammered, with some places getting 4-6 inches over a several day period. I cannot imagine what happened under that intense thunderstorm over the North Cascades.
And we did. My experience at the Council gave CEI its basic structure: an emphasis on regulation, an activist approach that would bridge the gap between the think tank and political worlds, and a soup-to-nuts organization modeled explicitly on the aggressive environmental groups I'd encountered. As much as I rejected their policies, I still admired their tactics. I envisioned an organization that would publish studies and organize path-breaking seminars, aggressively market these ideas to the relevant interest groups, and seek policy change by pushing legislators and regulators to " do the right thing"and sue when they wouldn't.
Back in April, a new scheme was launched whereby the government(?), via the utility companies, pays cash to anyone generating energy from a small-scale renewable scheme at a set level for a long period (25 years in the case of solar). (and just where does the government get its money from?)
Based on real-world knowledge of how earth's plant life responds to increases in air temperature and atmospheric CO 2 concentration (or the best approximations of it available at the time), this study predicts dramatic increases in biospheric prowess , as recent historical trends of these two parameters continue into the future. Hence, it is not surprising that the authors state that "caution should be taken in using these NEP results in policy discussions relevant to anthropogenic CO 2 emissions and carbon taxes." Sure . If they were included, it would indicate that carbon taxes to reduce CO 2 emissions are totally absurd , as CO 2 emissions - and even temperature increases - are a tremendous help to the biosphere. And that admission would not be politically correct.
President Obama and other world leaders are in Paris for talks to limit climate-altering emissions.
We went out into the night, where on every public building and in every city square there are lurid green banners and vast, costly, wasteful, electricity-guzzling displays, accompanied by the hilariously improbable slogans that are the hallmark of totalitarianism everywhere ? for instance, the mawkishly messianic ?Brad Pitt Saves The Planet?.
After his wife died in 1988, Robinson raised and home-schooled his six children all of whom became remarkable scholars, collaborating on research and a popular DVD series on math and science for home-schooled students and their parents. Five of the children have BS degrees in chemistry; one a degree in mathematics. Two earned doctorates in veterinary medicine; one a PhD in chemistry.
The claimed melt areas of Antarctica (Larsen, WAIS) have excess sea ice, indicating the water and air is persistently colder than normal and nearor below the freezing point.
No doubt that is why, although the models predicted that global warming would accelerate during the first decade of the 21st century, so far this century there has been no recorded global warming at all.
* Floating surface buoys ("drifters"), record temperatures within a meter below the actual sea surface. The temperature data is collected by satellite, and should show a post-noon maximum.
Dr. Hoerling has published research suggesting that the 2010 Russian heat wave was largely a consequence of natural climate variability , and a forthcoming study he carried out on the Texas drought of 2011 also says natural factors were the main cause.
So cosmic rays are ionizing and increase clouds, and clouds have an albedo effect. Clouds are water so they have circulatory effects created by temperatures. Thunderstorms, for example are big venting events.
MOOSE: What truth? All I hear are insults. You think by makin me look bad in front of Spunky, here, that well forget you dont have an argument. Noting but distractions.
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I agree that transparency is ???crucial?? to the IPCC process. As discussed elsewhere, IPCC has opposed transparency in favour of confidentiality, with the situation getting worse with the furtive adoption of the Jones-Stocker amendment. In addition, it would be easy enough to add back the reviewer name when the review comments were published. The present system is designed not for transparency, but to enable authors to decide how to respond, depending on who the reviewer was.
Also, in a circuit, when the feedbacks reach a threshold value the current suddenly changes direction and goes around the circuit the other way. A positive current instantaneously becomes a negative current. In process engineers jargon, the current flicks from the positive to the negative rail. But in the climate rising feedbacks cannot flick temperature down when they were driving it up just before.
Global warming has recently become both a symbol and a prototype of the tension between the truth and propaganda. One politically correct truth has taken over and it is not easy to oppose it although a significant number of people, including top scientists, see the climate change issues, its reasons, and its impact very differently. They are scared by the arrogance of the advocates of the global warming hypothesis and the related conjecture that connects this warming with particular acts of Man. They are afraid of the consequences that it will have for all of us. The best environment for humans is the environment of freedom. It is the only right criterion to judge all environmentalist visions and all their categoric demands. The current debate about global warming is thus inherently a debate about the freedom.
The bottom line is that the President is giving the American people what they want to hear. They want to hear that we are exceptional and great, and that this status is a birthright and does not require cross-generational devotion of effort to sustain. They want to hear that we are world leaders without having to consider what world leadership requires. They want to believe the narrative, the narrative that our President is ably providing us.
"Regulatory compliance costs rival estimated 2008 individual income taxes of $1.2 trillion, and they dwarf corporate income taxes of $345 billion," said Wayne Crews, author of the annual report, Ten Thousand Commandments: An Annual Snapshot of the Federal Regulatory State. The new and updated 2009 report is due out this spring.
U.S. high school students, who are currently being bombarded with a steady stream of radical environmentalists' lies, should read this book.
The blue and red are warmer and the green and tan are cooler. Uncolored is the same as the 30 year average.
First I tried everything I could with stats until the RegEm program began converging. Ive been able to use the Automatic Weather Station data (AWS) combined with the surface stations to recreate an AWS reconstruction. Without the actual implementation code or appropriately detailed descriptions Im forced to guess at actual parameters for implementation.
is expensive and yet it is not effective in cutting CO2 emissions. If it were not for the renewables targets set by the Renewables Directive, wind-power would not even be entertained as a cost-effective way of generating electricity or cutting emissions. The renewables targets should be renegotiated with the EU.
Arctic ice shrinks annually when Earth is too warm, but Siberian and Canadian snowfall increases, increasing Northern Hemisphere solar reflectivity, causing Earth to cool and ice to grow again. A plausible mechanism for these regular 40,000-year ice age cycles has been related to the shallowness of the Barents Sea south of Spitsbergen where the Gulf Stream can break through to the Arctic Ocean. Data indicate another regular ice age began since 2000. CO 2 is not involved.
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While shuttering coal-fueled power plants, the Climate Action Plan calls for more "clean energy" which will "cut our dependence on foreign oil." He's directing the Department of Interior to "green light" wind and solar projects on public lands and wants Congress to "invest in the clean-energy companies."
However, this conclusion indicates that there exist two things that are worse than global warming and science, namely senility and gullibility.
With an energy input of 1.22 x 1017Joules over a hemisphere in one second from the Sun, and an energy output from the Earth of 1.22 x 1017Joules from the entire globe, i.e. both hemispheres, it is not physically correct to equate these energy values in terms of flux. These values are true and totally correct in terms of energy. They can not be made to be equal in terms of flux.
Additionally, areas can be developed for particular purposes that can benefit people while reducing impact on more primary forests. In one case, a company has developed a eucalyptus tree that when grown in the rainforest, grows quickly, has a minimum of side branches (which reduces the amount of room it needs), matures in only seven years instead of the 12 it takes in Spain and Portugal or 35 in northern Europe, and can be used for paper production. Said one company spokesman, "We do not cut the Amazon and replace it with eucalyptus we plant on land which has already lost biodiversity By giving this land an economic function, we are preventing further incursion into the Amazon." (Financial Times, 1/8/92)
The new snowfall brought the depth of accumulated snow to 65 centimetres (26 inches), setting an all-time record for April.
Your SUV has overheated the planet, and caused one of the coldest years on record in the US.
Today, we can still see the clouds of smoke, and smell them.
During the last 2 billion years the Earth??s climate has alternated between a frigid ???Ice House??, like today??s world, and a steaming ???Hot House??, like the world of the dinosaurs.
Still, the IER study is the first of its kind to compare the cost of electricity from existing sources with that of new sources. Previous studies only compared the cost of electricity from new sources. That is, if a new facility is being constructed, what technology can produce electricity over the life of the plant at the lowest cost? Now a price tag can be put on policies that force power plants to retire early.
Particularly for the past decade, climate models have been running too hot, predicting more warming than has been observed (refer to the figure on page 6 of my testimony http://www.climate-lab-book.ac.uk/comparing-cmip5-observations/ .
NSIDC ignores satellite data from before 1979, which allows them to pretend that Arctic ice is decreasing linearly due to man-made CO2.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is ready to unleash its first wave of carbon-dioxide regulations. Some members of Congress want to tax hydrocarbon use and carbon-dioxide emissions. Moreover, United Nations climate alarmists are trying to devise a new treaty to regulate energy use at the international level. Even one of these government actions would send shock waves through the economy. If all three are imposed (or worse, imposed in conjunction with Obamacare and other tax increases on job and wealth creators) the impacts will be devastating.
(This essay will form, when re-written more intelligently, part of Chapter 15, the final Chapter, of my book. Which is coming.soon? The material below is not easy nor brief, folks. But it is very important.)
Chantrill, very able writer at American Thinker and prolific, shows how Piketty is just plain ignorant of the value of time in markets, why discounting and interest are part of any sensible discussion of free markets. Why the market rewards service and product and people rise to wealth by providing something of value.
melt being due to recent warming (let alone man-made warming)?
The Competitive Enterprise Institute will be holding a one day conference, "The Costs of Kyoto," on Tuesday, July 15 at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. For more information contact Nicole Hamilton at (202) 331-1010.
Hr p TCS presented a gstinlgg of a vlknd climate scientists, Professor Lennart Bengtsson, who Besides at Uppsala University, rr working at ISSI in Bern and University of Reading.
I doubt that Julia Slingo of the Met Office knows much about the Hockey Stick controversy based on actual personal knowledge of the issues. Nonetheless, she saw fit to weigh in on the controversy at the UK Parliamentary Committee hearings. A few days after the hearings, I emailed her asking her for citations/references for two highly questionable assertions that she made to the Parliamentary Committee. A couple of days ago, she replied. Instead of providing the requested citations/references, her reply ??? in all-too-familiar re-framing climate scientist style ??? failed to answer the question. Rathering than answering the question, she pontificated about irrelevant issues, pontifications that were themselves inaccurate.
The Senate Finance Committee approves major new health care legislation.
The incident was the first of its kind, and lasted only a few hours. Low temperatures were an aggravating factor, because Denmarks combined heat and power plants were also running full bore and generating a lot of electricity.
From the regime's point of view, the political circumstances were even less troublesome. After 20 years of relentless suppression of political opposition, virtually all the prominent dissidents had been imprisoned, exiled (as Andrei Sakharov had been since 1980), forced to emigrate, or had died in camps and jails.
"The coal industry is crying foul over new Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations which they say will be among the most be costly rules ever imposed by the agency on coal-fueled power plants."
Maybe these modelers should contact them for advice or even on line education programs for wannabe climate modelers.
Thanks to Speedy for sharing his talent. Hes captured the pairs voices and genre to a tee (even though Id actually be shocked speechless if I heard them say this on the ABC).
following the template of President Bush's Iraq War surge, forces would be cut to pre-surge levels within two years. From
Several utilities estimated the impact a narrow interpretation of the RMR&R; exclusion would have had on their ability to produce electricity, had the policy been consistently enforced during the past 20 years.25 The results are stunning: the TVA would have lost 32 percent of its coal system's energy capability; the Southern Company said it would not have been able to meet 38 percent of its customer demand; First Energy estimated it would have lost 39 percent of its coal-fired generating capacity, and so on. Negative environmental effects would also have occurred because reducing the utilization of highly efficient low-cost baseline generators would mean having to use less-efficient and dirtier units more often.26
Hillary Calls Out Deniers Well, I'm Here And Waiting, Hillary!
17. Is there a consensus among climate scientists that greenhouse warming from human activities is a major threat?
* Editor's note: This week's lead essay is a guest essay by Isaac Orr (iorr@heartland.org), a Heartland research fellow specializing in fracking, and is excerpted from a forthcoming Heartland Policy Study. For more information, see Heartland's Fracking Facts page at https://www.heartland.org/topics/energy/fracking-facts/.
... sneaking out between Bodega Rock and Bodega Head itself, the little shallow passage the fishermen call between the rock and the hard place, where once my heart almost stopped with fear, or at least it started with fear, but other emotions got involved. The channel there is shallow, the sport fishing boat Mary Jane was capsized in 1986 with the loss of nine souls by a sneaker wave, full fathom five thy fishermen lie, of their bones are coral made ...
* Executive Summary (pdf) Lilley-Stern Executive Summary
By Steven Hayward, Power Line, Aug 13, 2015
the appointees who "serve at the pleasure of the president" work alongside career officers responsible for every aspect of diplomacy, development, warfare, and intelligence and the bureaucracy's levers for decision-making and implementation.
For the current study of the Yamalia region, the problems of a biased RCS curve and a temporally inconsistent chronology clearly outweigh the benefits of reduced sampling error, and therefore this strategy is not adopted in the main part of this study.
Finally, Krupp argued that by retiring emission credits EDF would not be profiting from its role as a third party verifier. But, as Ridenour pointed out, "the incentives such a system would provide to corporations to give and give generously to the EDF or similar organization," should be of grave concern.
Previously, the fluctuating amount of radiation given out by the sun was thought to play a large role in the climate.
(a) Concerning ICCC-7, we set a record for the number of cosponsors (60), 12 speakers asked to speak after only 2 withdrew, and the mood was decidedly upbeat. Opponents (including Forecast the Facts and Occupy Wall Street) promised to disrupt the conference and failed utterly fewer than 50 people showed up for their rallies. Those who did show up wore boots on their heads and refused Christopher Moncktons invitation to debate.