Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
The term nihilism was coined by French writer Albert Camus and refers to people who believe in things that do not exist. Most modern-day nihilists also consider certain policies more important than freedom and dignity, and according to Gaerter there are strong nihilist tendencies among many of today's environmentalists.
Critique of Monckton, Soon et al. paper
Plants grown in CO 2 -enriched air exhibited rates of net photosynthesis that were approximately 50% greater than those displayed by ambiently-grown plants, regardless of soil nitrate availability. These increases in photosynthetic carbon uptake contributed to CO 2 -induced increases in aboveground organ dry weights that were 1.6-, 1.4-, and 1.3-fold greater than dry weights observed in control plants receiving one-half, standard, and three-fold levels of soil nitrate, respectively. Root weights, however, were less responsive to atmospheric CO 2 enrichment, displaying 10 and 30% increases in dry weight at one-half and standard nitrate levels, while no significant response was detected at the high soil nitrate concentration. What it means
Hiroko MIYAHARA: Effects of Galactic Cosmic Rays on Weather and Climate
Thats not because I dont think air quality is an issue requiring constant attention. But to holier-than-thou lefties, the right-wing Fraser Institute is pure evil. And they invariably savage anyone politically incorrect enough to mention its name, snuffing out reasoned discussion.
Because the main patterns of results persist across the revised tables, the original discussions as worded in our paper need only minor modification, and our overall conclusion, re-stated here, is unaffected:
And the borrowers who benefit most may not necessarily be poor struggling homeowners on the brink of foreclosure. http://www.openmarket.org/2011/10/24/obama-fannie-regressive-refinance-ripoff-for-taxpayers-and-middle-class-investors/y
Apparentincreases inone type of extreme weather ??? flooding ??? may haveaneven simpler explanation:more people living in places where floods occur.
The Heartland Institute of Chicago, Joseph L. Bast, President, held its Fourth International Conference on Climate Change in Chicago at the Marriott Magnificent Mile Hotel on Michigan Avenue from May 16 l8. The Heartland Institute is a nonprofit, nonpartisan Chicago-based research organization founded in 1984. Its purpose is to discover, develop and promote free-market solutions to social and economic problems. For more information about the Heartland Institute, visit http://www.heartland.org/ or call 312/377-4000.
Graph and fitted spline curve from 1979 through to February 2008, from Professors John Christy and Roy Spencer, University of Alabama, Huntsville
This years wet weather could lead to a repeat of 2007 , when the UK was hit by widespread flooding following torrential rain, causing butterfly numbers to plummet. The charity is urging the public to take part in the Big Butterfly Count to help assess the impact the rainy weather has had on butterflies.
It is absurd to subsidize the expansion of energy that only works d is not needed. Is it really hard to understand that the sun does not shine at night?
High Tech Continues To Prove UN's Global Warming A Pseudo-Crisis: Satellites Find Global Temps Well Below IPCC Hype Level
Unusually cold and wet conditions across the middle of the country led to several snowfall records. Cheyenne, Wyoming observed 28 inches of snow during October, making this the city??s snowiest October on record. North Platte, Nebraska recorded 30.3 inches of snowfall, making October 2009 the snowiest month of all months on record for the city. The previous record was 27.8 inches, in March 1912.
The full Wilkins 6,000 square mile ice shelf is just 0.39% of the current ice sheet (just 0.1% of the extent last September). Only a small portion of it between 1/10th-1/20th of Wilkins has separated so far, like an icicle falling off a snow and ice covered house. And this winter is coming on quickly. In fact the ice is returning so fast, it is running an amazing 60% ahead (4.0 vs 2.5 million square km extent) of last year when it set a new record. The ice extent is already approaching the second highest level for extent since the measurements began by satellite in 1979 and just a few days into the Southern Hemisphere winter and 6 months ahead of the peak. Wilkins like all the others that temporarily broke up will refreeze soon. We are very likely going to exceed last years record. Yet the world is left with the false impression Antarcticas ice sheet is also starting to disappear.
The most the furnace could do is heat the air to the temperature of the fire inside it, and no insulation will make this temperature higher, because the temperature of the fire is determined by the flux density of the energy release from the combustion of natural gas. You cant make this combustive release of energy hotter by reflecting or trapping its own energy on itself the maximum temperature is determined by the source supply of energy, coming from a chemical reaction (natural gas oxidation).
ED FACES all round among the profiteers of doom. A wrong equation that falsely triples the tiny direct warming caused by doubling CO2 concentration has been discovered and exposed in a major peer-reviewed paper just published in the Science Bulletin of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, one of the worlds top learned journals. No rogue equation, no climate crisis.
* The ship-engine cooling-water intake method collects and records ocean temperatures at depths of several meters.
We can allrecall the climate hockey teams similar reaction. Andrew Montford wrote a whole book on it. First they tried to hide the numbers, claiming they were lost. Then they said the numbers were out there and anyone could see them. When the numbers were exposed, they had other experts bogusly confirm that they were right. And when these were shown to be flawed, they made up new phonycurves. In the end, it was all about hiding an ugly truth. Today, except for the fabricators themselves, nobody believes the climate hockey stick curves anymore.
16g. The ability of global climate models to model sea level rise for the next 10 years
Rebecca Burgess is the manager of the American Enterprise Institute's Program on American Citizenship and a PhD (ABD) in politics from the University of Dallas.
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35 T.H. Tietenberg, Emissions Trading: An Exercise in Reforming Pollution Policy (Washington, DC: Resources for the Future, 1985).
After the election, the new administration was happy to comply with the directive, but, perhaps out of eagerness to comply with the Court's mandate, it rushed the job. The result is an agency decision that has no chance of withstanding judicial review, unless all normal legal doctrines designed to provide quality control are suspended.
The Competitive Enterprise Institute has been issued a subpoena by the attorney general of the Virgin Islands to hand over all communictions between 1997 and 2007 on climate change.
Many families are moving their homesteads and fodder stores onto raised platforms to keep out of the rising floodwater. They have built small hills with corals and feed stations on top to keep their cattle dry. Similarly, they use chicken houses and portable ovens that can be picked up and moved to dry land during floods.
In a provocative paper they entitled ???Food for Thought: Lower-Than-Expected Crop Yield Stimulation with Rising CO2 Concentrations,?? Long et al. (2006)1 suggested that future increases in crop production caused by the fertilization effect of the atmosphere??s rising CO2 concentration may be only half as large as what had long been believed would be the case, due to confounding influences they claimed were inherent in all experimental assessments of the growth-promoting effects of atmospheric CO2 enrichment except those employing Free-Air CO2- Enrichment or FACE technology. Quite to the contrary, however, there is a strong possibility that just the opposite could well be true, i.e., that future increases in crop production caused by the aerial fertilization effect of the atmosphere??s rising CO2 concentration may well be twice as large as what FACE experiments suggest.
I'm therefore slightly bemused that Hay et al think that there is still an enigma that needs to be solved, unless they are referring to the 20th century only. But more interestingly, if the astronomical data is saying that the change in sea level due to mass changes is less than 5cm/century, how can this be consistent with the GRACE satellite data saying it is 20cm/century or so? What does the astronomical data say now and is it consistent with GRACE? Does anyone know?
Incidentally, NOAA's "corrections" to suggest warming between a huge 1998 El Nio and another big one last year contradict data provided by other wider-coverage and higher quality measurements.
Rs who strongly feel the impulse to do somethingneed merely wait untilJanuary 2011, when they are widely expected to hold more seats in both the House and Senate, and when Waxman-Markey will no longer be in play.
Briefly put, when I had to balance the interests of my own safety, privacy\career of a few scientists, and the well-being of billions of people living in the coming several decades, the first two weren't the decisive concern.
That is unquestionably a formula for reducing U.S. autonomy and our authority over government. Most Americans feel we don't adequately control government now, so it is no wonder that, once aware of the scope of the threat, they will refuse to cede even more authority to distant bodies where U.S. influence is reduced or uncertain.
OPT Report: Fewer Emitters, Lower Emissions, Less Cost.
The only problem is nothing humans did 150 years ago could have caused this. CO2 didnt start rapidly rising until much later. Phil Jones has attributed the 1860-1880 and 1910-1940 warming to natural causes, like the sun.
The biggest turnaround will come on the climate change agenda. While Obama will not back down, committees have significant influence, as previously mentioned, through the appropriation process. Also, expect oversight on Obama Administration policies.
Agreement signed at Washington December 21, 2004; entered into force December 21, 2004.
13 hours ago AUSTRALIAS $46 million Antarctic airstrip is melting, leaving the government scrambling to find a new air link to the frozen continent.
"I just started driving around town, particularly to the areas I knew had been hit the hardest," Graham said. "I partnered with some people who were just doing the same thing I was-helping whoever needed help without ever having met them before. It was really emotional, seeing how many folks came out to help the community. It's a terrible disaster but we'll always be here for our fellow Louisianans." You can follow Graham's efforts at CFACT Campus.
But if no one died, doesn't that mean EPA is lying when it says there is no safe level, that all PM2.5 particulates are toxic, that its regulations are saving countless lives, and that the direct and ancillary benefits vastly outweigh their multi-billion-dollar annual costs? And if that is the case, shouldn't EPA officials be prosecuted for lying to Congress and public, and imposing all those costs for no real benefits?
23 Edward Luttwak, "The Middle of Nowhere," Prospect (May 2007); James Zogby, "Arab Attitudes in 2005," Arab-American Institute; Joseph Joffe, "A World Without Israel" Foreign Policy (January/February 2005); Eytan Gilboa, "Public Diplomacy: The Missing Component in Israel's Foreign Policy," Israel Affairs (October 2006).
New study: tropical forests are using far more CO2 and so growing far faster than previously believed.
It should be remembered that we have had accurate satellite measurements of sea ice only since 1979, a period which has been entirely during the positive (warming) phase of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO, see graph below). The PDO is an index of weather patterns over the North Pacific Ocean that flips every 30 years or so. The coincidence that the satellite era started right after the ???Great Climate Shift of 1977?? has probably biased what we consider to be normal for global climate. In fact, based upon the 2,000-year temperature graph shown previously, one might argue that there is no such thing as normal climate.
On the other hand, federal, state, and local taxes on gasoline and diesel fuel average 48 cents a gallon. The federal 18.4 cents gas tax and 24.4 cents diesel tax raised $35 billion in 2014, which is used to fund mass transit as well as highway projects. Electric vehicles make no contribution to maintaining our roads or our mass transit systems.
7. Aggregation. EPA proposes to consider modifications to be separate and independent projects unless they are dependent upon another project to be economically or technically viable or the project has been intentionally split from other projects to avoid NSR. EPA says it "generally would defer to the States to implement the Agency's aggregation rule."
In either event, shouldn't the researchers and universities be compelled to return the hundreds of millions of dollars they received for these deceptive, unethical, illegal human experiments and compensate the test subjects for subjecting them to emotional distress when they realize they received "lethal" doses? Shouldn't EPA officials be fired and prosecuted for their roles in all of this?
But it would be irresponsible to not mention how incredibly irresponsible key members of the climate science community have become.
The types of fuel that are the main sources of energyThe main uses of energy suppliesWhich countries supply the U.S. with the most oilThe extent of oil reservesThe rate of global warmingThe terms of the Kyoto Protocol international environmental treatyThe environmental record of nuclear power plantsThe extent of urban air pollutionThe effects of conservation and increases in energy efficiencyHerein we report on what might be called the "energy myths" to which many Americans subscribe "and their correctives. "Energy Myths, Energy Facts" is intended as a primer for educators, journalists, and public officials "for concerned citizens generally "as we seek twin goals: an energy supply sufficient to fuel continued economic growth; and environmental policies that will protect the public health and the quality of our lives.
During last year??s summer drought, NASA scientist James Hansen made a big splash with a study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and a Washington Post op-ed arguing that global warming was the cause ofthe four biggest hot spells of the past 10 years. However, as noted in skeptical blogs, meteorological analyses of the European heat wave of 2003 , the Russian heat wave of 2010 , the Texas-Oklahoma drought of 2011 , and the Midwest drought of 2012 attribute those events principally to natural variability.
Daschle thwarts ANWR vote, unveils own proposal
Or so reason the people who lately claimed that the U.S. heat over the past 13 months was only a one in 1.6 million event. After making this dubious calculation, it was argued that because the result was so incredibly tiny, something-that-could-only-be-global-warming caused the temperature to take the values it did.
The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) is coordinating a search and rescue for a Russian passenger ship beset by ice approximately 1500 nautical miles south of Hobart.
Mo nukes, mo nukes, mo nukes. The inevitable outcome of green activism is more nuclear power its the gift that keeps on giving. Jennifer Marohasy has the Aussie version of this hippie head-popper .
Delegates from around the world gather in Bonn this weekend to chart the future of a new global-warming treaty they hope to sign in Mexico this fall or in South Africa in 2011 at the latest. This treaty would lock our nation into massive new taxation, regulation, subsidies and redistribution; take unprecedented control of our economy; and radically alter our way of life. Laws and regulations that increase the power of government are seldom repealed. Treaties are tougher still. The costs and burdens of the treaty these delegates hope to sign are so extraordinary, they cannot be justified unless every link in the chain of logic supporting the treaty is beyond reproach.
Like the cloud trails seen in the Wilson cloud chamber, cosmic ray ionization trails in our atmosphere can act as cloud seeds. Some studies suggest that ions play a central role in creating aerosols. Aerosols are minute but important atmospheric particles that can serve as the cores of growing cloud droplets. Aerosols can cause clouds to form in the upper atmosphere, after the particles collide with other atmospheric particles in the troposphere and conglomerate into larger particles.
Let us look at the last three decades average global temperature but update the Met Office graph to Hadcrut4. You will notice it is essentially the same showing a steady increase the unchanging underlying rate of global warming. Now, bearing in mind the imposed constraint in the Met Office approach of decades with arbitrary start and end points, take the same Hadcrut4 data but this time use all the available and work backwards in 5-year integrations. You will see it tells a very different story. There is now no consistent increase in temperature seen in this data. The data, displayed this way, reveals that far from showing a steady underlying rate of warming the global temperature has had two standstills, with curiously, the 1998 super El Nino delineating them. David Whitehouse, The Global Warming Policy Foundation, 23 October 2012
Happer mentions that 12,000 years ago, the Earth cooled and warmed by 10 degrees in just 50 years. Kraken says that the temperature change wasn't global: well, most of the important temperature changes are not global, either. The temperature change in the last 100 years isn't global, either: 30% of the HadCRUT3 stations display an overall cooling trend. This fact only reinforces Happer's point: the climate has always been changing and the life on Earth easily dealt with many and many degrees of temperature change, even in short periods of time.
Environmental activists have already filed new lawsuits challenging the alfalfa re-approval and the sugar beet partial deregulation. They have also challenged the experimental field testing of a genetically engineered variety of eucalyptus, modified to increase tolerance to cold temperatures. Any of the dozens of fully approved biotech crop varieties now grown in the United States, or others currently being field tested, could be the activists' next target. Moreover, every other new variety now being developed and future varieties yet to be created will be subject to a lengthy, expensive, redundant, and wholly unnecessary EIS.
You would think that demonizing electricity would be a tough sell to a populace devoted to smartphones, gaming consoles, DVRs, flat screen TVs, iPhones, tablets, and the next "must have" gadget. But you'd be wrong. Earth Hour, an annual "turn off your lights" media event sponsored by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), continues to grow, despite the inherent contradiction between its purported goal of conservation-by-denial and how we and the developing world aspire to live today.
The main point I am making here is that, no matter whether you assume the climate system is sensitive or insensitive, our best satellite measurements suggest that the climate system is perfectly capable of causing internally-generated radiative forcing larger than the external forcing due to increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations. Low cloud variations are the most likely source of this internal radiative forcing. It should be remembered that the satellite data are actually measured, whereas the CO2 forcing (red lines in the above graphs) is so small that it can only be computed theoretically.
The UK has been experiencing the coldest winter in several decades, and hopefully policymakers have learned a few basic lessons from this. Here is my wish list, which seem painfully obvious.
Over the past week, Australia hosted the Group of 20 (G-20) meeting in Brisbane, and the public heard speeches from a number of leaders including those from the United Kingdom and Germany. But eyes were mostly trained on the words and deeds of presidents Barack Obama and Xi Jinping.
It has been observed many times in the past that there are many aspects of the global warming debate that reasonable people should be able to agree on: carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas, the temperature has gone up a bit, that sort of thing.
Sea level rise certainly poses problems for the US east coast, but to a large extent this is due to subsidence. The naive belief that we can somehow halt the rise of the oceans carries the very real danger that we ignore the geological side of the problem.
upside the head with a two-by-four to understand that little can be accomplished
During the 20th century, both CO2 and temperatures increased, but not necessarily together. The correlation is poor. For several multi-decadal periods during the 20th century temperatures fell while CO2 increased.
At issue is ethanol, a fuel distilled from corn that can be used to run cars, but which shouldn't be used to run cars.
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The results of this study clearly indicate, at least for this particular part of the world, that cyclone frequency and intensity do not respond to changes in temperature as predicted by climate alarmists, who say they base their claims on the output of state-of-the-art climate models. Hence, there is little reason to believe that tropical storms will respond to global warming in the ways they claim, i.e., that they will intensify and become more frequent.
How has the MWP almost disappeared again, just in time to perhaps go missing in IPCC AR5? Science supplemental information says the average resolution of the 73 paleoclimate series is 160 years, and the median is 120. The proxy selection was deliberately weighted toward low frequency resolution, since the entire Holocene was being assessed. Figure S18c (below) shows there is no statistically valid resolution to the combined proxy set for anything less than 300-year periods. The paper itself said, our temperature stack does not fully resolve variability at periods shorter than 2000 years
\] It's the expectation value of the product of fields at these two points \(x,y\). Well, these two operators should be time-ordered by \(T\); it's a technicality saying that the field at a lower time i.e. lower value of \(x^0\) or \(y^0\) should appear on the right side. But if \(x,y\) are space-like-separated, the ordering doesn't really matter because the operators commute at space-like separations. In fact, this vanishing of the commutator at space-like separations is the key fact that prohibits "instant communication" envisioned by Cox in his diamond story.
Attempting to apply current interpretations of rules retroactively is a violation of due process. It also is unlikely to be effective regulation, since it occurs too late to change the behavior in question. By punishing, after the fact, those who at the time were thought to be operating within the law, this enforcement policy discourages new investment and innovation.
Said by Dr Heidi Cullen in testimony to the US House Subcommittee on Energy and Environment a few days ago (h/t WUWT ).
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"A year on, global warming alarmists are still exploiting Hurricane Katrina and the intense hurricane season of 2005 for political purposes. Contrary to what they say, the science linking global warming with hurricanes remains a field of active inquiry and dispute. Moreover, diverting precious resources into policies designed to reduce global warming rather than strengthen our resiliency in the face of hurricanes actually harms people in hurricane-prone areas. Instead, government policies should concentrate on reducing perverse incentives that encourage development in hurricane-prone areas."