Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
In recent years snows have fallen in unusual places like Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Buenos Aires, southern Brazil. Johannesburg, South Africa, southern Australia, the Mediterranean Coast and Greece. All-time record snows fell in many locales across the western and northern United States from Washington State and Oregon and Colorado to Iowa, Wisconsin, Michigan, Vermont and Maine. All-time records were also set in southern Canada.
There really is a trade-off: denying aid for fossil fuels hurts the poor
Irelands deputy chief medical officer warned in March that people who live near wind turbines risk having their health and psychological well-being compromise by the infrasound emissions, in a condition she called wind turbine syndrome.
think of a good way to argue this. I am hopeful of finding something in the
However, the real world isn't a classical model of quantum mechanics. The real world is an intrinsically, genuinely quantum system. It's not a classical caricature, it's the real quantum thing, stupid. It doesn't need (and it doesn't allow) any superluminal communication whatsoever. The contradictions with special relativity only exist if we demand that the world isn't quantum; it's a classical model of a quantum world. But the world isn't a classical model and that's why these contradictions evaporate. For this reason, special relativity and quantum mechanics are "on the same side of a barricade". Special relativity is another argument why we must accept that quantum mechanics with its positivist, probabilistic rules is the only right description while any attempt to "emulate" quantum mechanics by something that isn't truly quantum is just wrong.
Heavy snow will return occasionally, says Dr Viner, but when it does we will be unprepared. "We're really going to get caught out. Snow will probably cause chaos in 20 years time," he said.
Nuclear Fission: Atomic Power Looking Better and Worse Bloomberg View "It's a collision between long-term concerns over global warming which gives nuclear power appeal as a practical form of carbon-free energy and anxieties heightened by three reactor meltdowns at the Fukushima plant in northern Japan on March 11, 2011. Nowhere are the conflicts more evident than within Japan, which in early August prepared to begin operating its first nuclear reactor in almost two years even though much of the public is still opposed."
The University of Colorado claim that the rate of sea level rise since 1992 is 3.1mm/year, but this includes an isostatic adjustment of 0.3mm/year, meaning that the sea level, as measured on our coastline, is only rising by 2.8mm/year. (Basically, they argue the sea floor is sinking: more information here ). Taking this along with the Pinatubo factor, it is clear that the underlying rate of rise is not much greater than the generally accepted 20thC rise of about 190mm.
I am sure that history will file your names alongside such credentialed luminaries as Hwang Woo-suk, Luk Van Parijs, Jon Sudbo, and William Summerlin.
It will be interesting to see how predictions by the government-funded Met Office compare with independent forecasters. ( source )
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Just as the second half of the 20th century was characterized by America's Atlantic partnership, the India-U.S. relationship will be the defining feature of the 21st century.
The consequent enviro-rage will be swift and merciless, of course. As Air Force bomber crews know, ?If you?re not taking flak, you?re not over the target.? Coal proponents must have the courage to attack the real reasons for the EPA rules.
So, I decided to have a look at that tidal issue. Again Bing aerial view is our friend:
" If no Germans were hurt or killed in the construction of Route Summit , it's because the guys who kicked your asses all over Europe in two world wars showed up to defend them this time around. A little gratitude wouldn't hurt, Asshat."
The intermittent power of wind towers plays havoc with electricity grids. Power black outs in India are so bad, they cut off the supply to 600 million or so people for two days last year. To make the grid more stable, an official somewhere decided it would help to have at least one days warning of how much electricity will flow from those towers. (Why not two days I say?)
Meanwhile, over in Japan, diplomats met to discuss climate policy and industry. This was Tony Blair's first public appearance in his new role as a roving, international climate ambassador, and he took the opportunity to urge all nations to agree to reduce emissions. This is essentially the U.S. position, and it has proven unpopular, so you have to admire the former Prime Minister's temerity.
An investigation of Australia's national science agency, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), and a review of their document titled "The Science of Tackling Climate Change." Through the use of methodically solid data and sound analysis, this report finds CSIRO comments, behavior, and publications to be, on the topic of climate, unscientific and blatantly political, and thus, threaten Australia's national governance.
Others on the WUWT sea ice page suggest it could go either way. What isn??t debatable though is that there has been a dramatic slowing of loss of Arctic ice extent in the past couple of weeks, as shown below, and that the current extent is well within the +/- 2 standard deviation.
Nevertheless, nuclear power plants and big dams are negative symbols for the environmentalist ideologues, much like the wind turbines and solar panels are their positive symbols. All green people are obliged to worship the wind turbines and to criticize dams and nuclear power plants.
So the real problem is CAFE, not SUVs. The next time you hear the term SUV, remember: The "S" might as well stand for scapegoat.
Editorial, WSJ, Via The Hockey Schtick, Aug 12, 2015
The question "which time are you lying?" came to mind, though it was not at all clear that the answer could not be "both." The FOIA documents 900 pages, so far show great internal concern among high level DoE political appointees when this question was pressed, and a resistance to put the answer in writing.
The Competitive Enterprise Institute has produced a book and a highlights video based on The Costs of Kyoto conference held in July 1997. Both the book and the video are available for $15 or buy both for $25. To order call CEI at (202) 331-1010, or e-mail to info@cei.org.
Suppose that the US decides to implement a policy to reduce CO2 emissions. There are six basic options:
1983: 50 companies controlled 90% of the media consumed by Americans
So far the temperature is around 0 C so it melts rapidly. But that should change during the following days. For Tuesday, the temperature is forecast to go to -12 C . Brrr. Do you have deja vu? Yes, see 2007 .
Quantification of long term tornado trends has been hampered by the fact that many more tornadoes are reported today than was the case in the past. NOAA summarise this well:-
As a result of that press release, a Capital Weather Gang blog post by Andrew Freedman was dutifully dispatched as damage control, since we had inconveniently noted the continuing disagreement between climate models used to predict global warming and the satellite observations.
Steve Runyun of Willow Alaska : Here in Willow, Alaska, we are mired in a cold snap entering its 13th day. After one of the coldest summers in Alaskan history, we are seeing a winter reminiscent of the 70s and 80s. Temps at our house have averaged -25*F, dipping into the low minus 30s and getting as high as -19, for a very brief moment yesterday. Temps in Anchorage have also been below zero for this same time frame, very unusual for them, and interior Alaska has been in the 60s below zero. Over Christmas break, airports across the country were closed due to snow and ice. Even Las Vegas got snow! Whereas the spectre of global warming once was quite appalling, today its quite appealing! Bring it on, says I! If I really could spur it a little, I think I would, at this point!
Mrner, N.-A. 2012. Sea Level Is Not Rising. SPPI Reprint Series , December 6, 2012.
This Washington Post headline from earlier this month illustrates one of worrisome side-effects of authoritarian rule. Political freedom is denied the citizenry but the pressures to allow some form of dissent remain. Religious dissent often is treated more liberally and the eco-theocratic values of today are the dominant religion of our secular society. The risk the Russians face is that in their effort to escape Red tyranny they may rush into the hands of the Greens. That would be tragic Virginia Postrel noted long ago that she preferred the old Reds to the new Greens. Both restricted economic and individual freedom but, at least, the Reds aimed at helping humanity. That goal is rarely given much priority by green zealots.
We know the US government uses sock-puppets, one fan of the Big Scare admitted to using spam bots to generate fake comments, and though I cant prove anything, there have been plenty of anonymous commenters here who returned with different names to write hate-filled messages with unsubstantiated insults. There was also even one commenter who wrote 440 comments on this blog under his real name, in business hours, from a government office.
The results show that increased carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels causes an inconsequential impact on world temperature. The most significant conclusion, however, is that increased moisture, the presumed cause of feedback, causes a decrease in the warming effect of CO2 (negative feedback).
(They mention lots of other possible hurdles; I don't want to copy their paper here, however.)
Repeatedly throughout the past couple of decades, we've been pummeled with dire predictions and told "time is short." In 1989, the UN predicted that "Global warming would destroy entire nations by 2000." In 2007, we were told: "Scientists believe we have less than 10 years to bring emissions under control to prevent a catastrophe." In 2008, Britain's Prince Charles said we only had 100 months left to solve the problem. Gore, in 2009, said: "We have to do it this year."
85) Ice-core data clearly show that temperatures change centuries before concentrations of atmospheric CO2 change. Thus, there appears to be little evidence for insisting that changes in concentrations of CO2 are the cause of past temperature and climate change.
In conversations with colleagues who bemoan the President's seeming disinterest in assertive American leadership, I often remind them that he is very effectively broadcasting on the carrier frequency of American public opinion. The foreign policy of the Obama Administration is designed not to protect, advance, and sustain the position of the United States in the world, but to do as little damage to the President's domestic agenda as possible. Indeed, for weeks now the White House has been leaking that President Obama's foreign policy mantra is "don't do stupid stuff." And it seems to stop there. Helike the country as a wholeis focused inward. He and his approach are far better tuned to the political environment in the United States than the more assertive and engaged policy that I and others might prefer. It is we who are out of step with the country, not the President. Time will tell whether the President's political judgment is matched by his strategic judgment.
The Williams Lake Airport received 51 cm (20 inches), with the next highest being the Coquihalla Summit where they received 35 cm (14 inches), and Allison Pass which received 32 cm (13 inches).
The effects on the Sun and on the Earth??s climate were not due to the Galactic cosmic rays themselves, but to the cosmic dust that these cosmic rays transported into the Solar System. Observations have shown that the Solar System is presently immersed in a dense cloud of cosmic dust, material that is normally kept at bay by the outward pressure of the solar wind. But, with the arrival of this Galactic cosmic ray volley, the solar wind was overpowered and large quantities of this material were pushed inward. The Sun was enveloped in a cocoon of dust that caused its spectrum to shift toward the infrared. In addition, the dust grains filling the Solar System scattered radiation back to the Earth, producing an ???interplanetary hothouse effect?? that substantially increased the influx of solar radiation to the Earth.??
I have mentioned the effect of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) below . The Alaska Climate Research Center have just released their update to the Alaska data. Heres that information:
If, for example, you are Laurence Tribe in 1984, Harvard professor of law, leftist pillar of the establishment, you can "write" your magnum opus by using the products of your student assistant, Ron Klain.
Participants at the UN's Habitat III conference in Quito, Ecuador are exhorted on blue and white (the UN's colors) billboards to do their best for the world's cities. Our personal favorite read "Compact Cities."
Although there was essentially no acclimation or down regulation of photosynthesis in this long-term study, no significant increase in soil carbon content was detected over the experiment's duration.?? However, as demonstrated in our Editorial of 5 Mar 2003 , it is sometimes necessary to conduct studies of biological responses to atmospheric CO 2 enrichment for considerably longer than a decade in order to determine their true ultimate impact.?? Indeed, the study of Schneider et al . (2004) on the identical L. perenne plots studied here suggests the very same thing with respect to the slowly increasing (though non-significant) trend in harvestable biomass observed in the low soil nitrogen treatment. References
Figure 2. Reproduction of Figure 10.20a from AR5
It is appropriate that the theme of this year's conference was Reconsidering the Science and Economics, as much has happened since Heartland's Third International Conference on Climate Change held in Washington, D.C. in June of last year. Among the happenings: It was in November of last year that emails and other documents from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia revealed a pattern of mismanagement of temperature data, interference with peer review, and an effort to suppress academic debate on global warming (Climategate). In December of 2009, negotiations in Copenhagen, meant as a successor to the Kyoto Protocol, collapsed, leaving the world without a binding international agreement after Kyoto expires in 2012.
Last year was declared the warmest on record, but only by 0.05 degrees Celsius. Satellite temperature records, however, show that 2014 was at most the third warmest year on record 00 but it could be the sixth warmest as well.
If, as the President seems to assume, all weather anomalies are due to global climate change,then how would he explain the extraordinary 7-year drought ofintense landfalling U.S. hurricanes?
Not all the arguments in favor of such reconceptualizations of "national security" are necessarily disingenuous special pleading, of course. It might well be that traditional paradigms of "national security" sometimes neglect important issues that really do have dramatic security implications, and which will later with hindsight clearly be understood as having had genuine and direct importance in this regard all along. (If you think our security boffins are omniscient and infallible, you haven't been paying much attention. Let us stipulate, at the very least, that they do indeed miss things from time to time.) If rising sea levels eventually force population migrations or even erase certain island nations, there could be international security implications. And I'm willing to believe that obese soldiers indeed cannot fight as well as fit ones.
DOJ seeks mandatory data retention requirement for ISPs:
The following excerpt from his PNAS paper tells you everything you need to know about James Hansens paper:
With figures of $2,000,000,000,000 being banded about as the cost, Ive got to wonder where Clinton and Obama might not understand the different between a billion ($1,000,000,000) and a trillion ($1,000,000,000,000) after all it is very easy to mistake one for the other! The difference is that rather than a few dollars for each American, the cost is a few 10s of thousands per household.
Yet the biggest challenges may be more technical than financial.
So the three unimpeached studies in Figure 10.20a support a median TCR estimate of about 1.35C, and a top of the likely range for TCR of about 2.0C based on downgrading 595% ranges, following AR5.
But let's suppose the rumour is true. If so, it would raise all kinds of profound policy questionsand also a question of crass politics. The Bush administration has, until now, taken a skeptical view toward climate change. What is the best way for an administration to change course like this?
Figure 9 compares the approximated HadCRUT4 land plus sea surface temperature data to the 4 RCP-based hindcasts from 1901 to 2006. The end date of 2006 is dictated by the HADSST3 data, which still (as of now) has not been brought up to date by the Hadley Centre. The models appear as though they are capable of reproducing the rate at which global temperatures warmed during the late warming period of 1976 to 2006, but it looks like they are still not capable of reproducing the rates at which global temperature anomalies warmed and cooled before that. Lets check.
"The Obama administration is crediting its anti-recession stimulus plan with creating up to 50,000 jobs on dozens of wind farms, even though many of those wind farms were built before the stimulus money began to flow or even before President Barack Obama was inaugurated."
I have in the past, called for Dr. Hansens firing after his arrest episodes where he acts as an activist and protestor. I repeat that call today and will continue to do so. NASA administrator Bolden, fire Dr. James Hansen. He is an embarrassment to NASA, and an embarrassment to science. Show him the door.
This is the second time Walker was forced to withdraw a subpoena in the climate fight. Walker had gone after the free-market Competitive Enterprise Institute a few months ago for its ties to the oil company. The think tank responded with threats of sanctions and Walker withdrew.
Poll shows public doesn't fear global warming
from 1951 onwards, KNMI shifted from so-called climatological temperature measurements to synoptical measurements. However, the climatological measurements continued to 1970. For the 1951-1970 period these measurements may be considered as more reliable than the synoptical measurements. Therefore, in the homogenized series the climatological measurements extend to 1970.
Can require pressure change be explained by drier conditions in ice-age?
The United States is also unhappy about the idea of U.S. airlines having to pay new taxes to European governments.
In February 2012, Time's Bryan Walsh broke news that Chesapeake Energyone of the largest natural gas companies in North Americagave $26 million to the Sierra Club from 2007 to 2010. Walsh reports that the donations helped fund the Sierra Club's "Beyond Coal" campaign, the avowed purpose of which is to eliminate coal-fired electricity in America. Chesapeake Energy's $26 million in donations was a significant component of Sierra Club's total revenues during that period. The Sierra Club's total assets were $50 million in 2010, according to Politico.
According to MarketWatch.com, the percentage of people who work in manufacturing is at a record low of 8.5%which compares to "20% in 1980, 30% in 1960 and a record 39% during World War Two."
For months President Obama has been in the uncomfortable position of straddling a barbed-wire fencedoes he appease his ardent environmental supporters or advocate for economic growth that will help all of America? In his speech outlining his Climate Action Plan, he made his choice clear. He's abandoning what is best for America and has bowed to the political pressure from environmental lobbyists like the Sierra Club and the Natural Resources Defense Council.
The story here is mostly that base metals have stopped dropping. We had a quick swing trade up, but thats ended as metals took a dip. Prices are still below the SMA stack, which has gone flat but is not yet in a weave. That means the prior falling trend is still the one we follow. While its likely a bottom, or a bottom soon, its not yet a confirmed bottom and could fall away at any time. In that context, you swing trade the ripples on a very fast chart.
Interestingly, neither seawater warming nor seawater acidification (caused by contact with CO 2 -enriched air) had either a positive or a negative effect of sea urchin fertilization, suggesting, as the five scientists concluded, that "sea urchin fertilization is robust to climate change stressors." References
Immigration from the Third World will not provide a long-term solution, as fertility rates are declining there as well. The average fertility rate for Latin America was six children per woman in the 1960s; by 2005, it had dropped to 2.5. At that rate of decline, within a few decades, Latin American countries will likely have a fertility rate lower than that of the United States.
This is basically the regional breakdown of the U.S.-average relationship shown in the first plot above, which demonstrates that the increased frequency of strong tornadoes with cooler, not warmer, temperatures. This is no doubt an indirect effect, mirroring the more frequent intrusion of unseasonably cool air masses, which cause the wind shear conditions more conducive to tornado formation.
The figure below is a portion of a screen capture from the Heat-Related Deaths section of the EPAs new Climate Change Indicators website . It is labeled Deaths Classified as Heat-Related in the United States, 19792010.
So what is that? Met site is top right. Four piles at the base, is a large power grid pylon, can look bizarre from an aircraft (these are aerial photos, not satellite).
That makes for expensive power. Experts have estimated that electricity from giant solar projects will cost at least twice as much as electricity from conventional sources. But neither the utilities that have contracted to buy the power nor state regulators have disclosed what the price will be, only that it will be passed on to electricity customers.??
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Americas natural gas boom has been a rare economic bright spot, and even President Obama likes to take credit for it. But as his term winds down, the Administration is waging a war of regulatory attrition to raise drilling costs and reduce its competitive advantage over wind and solar power.
They scored one major success, in Colorado. There, ex-Governor Bill Ritter had made the New Energy Economy, the centerpiece of his administration. As such, he was receptive to fuel switching as a way to meet his Climate Action Plan, a non-binding mandate to reduce the states greenhouse gas emissions 20% below 2008 levels. As Ive written about at length here , the Ritter Administration engaged in a number of deceptions to carry Chesapeakes water.
ACESA considers the problem of leakage and proposes a number of measures in Title IV, Part 2, Section 412. In the next section, Section 413, the draft wisely concludes, "Congress finds that the purposes described in Section 412 can be most effectively addressed and achieved through agreements negotiated between the United States and foreign countries." Actually, that finding should be applied to the entire scope of Title IV. That is to say, effective GHG control regime, by its very nature, requires international agreement. Yet ACESA, as domestic legislation, can mandate only U.S. action.
They accomplished this through a spectacular hockey stick of adjustments, which increases post 2000 temperatures by more than one degree, and decreases pre-2000 temperatures by as much as two degrees.
Weaver Suggests Buddy Review for Mann et al 2005
In 2010, Sir Alex Ferguson had the topscorerin the BPL and didnt play him in his humiliatingChampionsLeague smack down by Barcelona.
>> I am putting the finishing touches to my new scenario paper for Africa and