Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
It is now six months since I reported on what even environmentalists are calling "the biggest environmental scandal in history". Indeed this is a scam so glaringly bizarre that even the UN and the EU have belatedly announced that they are thinking of taking steps to stop it. The essence of the scam is that a handful of Chinese and Indian firms are deliberately producing large quantities of an incredibly powerful "greenhouse gas" which we in the West ? including UK taxpayers ? then pay them billions of dollars to destroy.
Feldstein, a Harvard economist who has advised Obama, earlier warned that "the barrage of tax increases proposed in President Barack Obama's budget could, if enacted by Congress, kill any chance of an early and sustained recovery." He compared Obama's tax increases to the ones that contributed to the Great Depression and the "Lost Decade" of economic stagnation and decay in Japan.
So according to Dessler the only way clouds can affect surface T is by absorbing energy on its way out of the Earths climate system. But Andy, what about the energy that clouds reflect which thereby never gets into the Earths climate system? No wonder Dessler thinks cloud feedback is positive, he ignores more than half of their effect. Doh! FAIL
It is essential to understand that every one of the "global warming" predictions made in the 1980s and the decades since then has been WRONG. Every one of the computer models on which those predictions were based was WRONG.
As the primary factor driving climate, Malberg believes it is the sun. The following charts shows the mean value for sunspot activity since 1679 along with mean Central European temperature anomaly:
Sachs's not-so-subtle shift of emphasis from the pipeline itself to the "carbon budget" belies his denial that he and his allies simply oppose fossil fuels. Given his reliance on the worst-case RCP8.5 scenario, it is axiomatic that the use of fossil fuels must be reduced dramatically in order to adhere to the "carbon budget." At the end of his response, Sachs asserts the existence of a "globally agreed objective of avoiding dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system." Really? Unless this is just a tautology driven by the term "dangerous," the agreed objective to which Sachs refers is entirely obscure. We have just observed the end of the 19th(!) Conference of the Parties in Warsaw, at which the only "agreement" was on the restaurants to be patronized at the 20th and 21st COPs in Lima and Paris. Professor Sachs would be well advised to adhere to scholarly standards of skepticism and a close alliance with evidence rather than ideology.
The GISS temperature graph is nonsense. The 1940s were just as warm as the warmest recent years
31 Aug 11 ??? Following the coldest June in nearly 40 years and the coldest July in 50 years, this month is now one of the coldest Augusts since records began in 1851.
While the White House is at fault for refusing to allow the EPA to discuss the 2001 NRC report, EPA scientists similarly have a lot of explaining to do over their reported refusal to allow the White House to include references to the recent work by Willie Soon and Sally Baliunas of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Their study takes up a central claim of environmental advocates, that the warming observed in the twentieth century was historically unprecedented, and therefore must have been man-made (or at least human-influenced). In fact, studies that Soon and Baliunas reviewed found "strong evidence that the climate of the 20th century was not unusual, but fell within the range experienced during the past 1,000 years" during, for instance, a period known as the "Medieval Warm Period."
The bottom panel of following graphic shows what most meteorologists already know: there has been a downward trend in strong (F3) to violent (F5) tornadoes in the U.S. since statistics began in the 1950s. As seen in the top panel, this has also been a period of general warming. For those statistics buffs, the correlation coefficient is -0.31. Obviously, the conclusion should be that warming causes fewer strong tornadoes, not more. (Or, maybe a lack of tornadoes causes global warming!)
Photos of melt glass known as trinitite formed at the ground surface from the melting of sediments and rocks by the very high temperatures of the Trinity nuclear airburst in New Mexico in 1945. This material is very similar to the glassy melt materials now reported.
When an agency is faced with two initially plausible readings of a statutory term, but it turns out that one reading would cause absurd results, I am aware of no precedent that suggests the agency can still choose the absurd reading and then start rewriting other perfectly clear portions of the statute to try to make it all work out. And just recently, the Supreme Court reminded the Executive Branch and the lower courts that this is not the proper way to interpret a statute: Instead of ?reading new words into the statute? to avoid absurd results, as the Government had urged in that case, the Court said that the statute should be interpreted so that ?no absurdity arises in the first place.? Kloeckner v. Solis, No. 11-184, slip op. at 13 (U.S. 2012).
No matter how you adjust and tweak, the models just don't get it right. This caused the researchers to ask some fundamental questions about what drives the climate models?the ?forcings? in climate speak. They focus on the usual suspects: rising greenhouse gases and the change in Earth's albedo caused by retreating northern hemisphere ice sheets.:
"SEN. RAND PAUL (R-KY): "With regard to the idea of whether you have a right to health care, you have realize what that implies. It's not an abstraction. I'm a physician. That means you have a right to come to my house and conscript me. It means you believe in slavery.""
A proposal by Professor Kevin Anderson, director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research in the U.K., made a splash at Cancun. Anderson authored a paper for the Royal Society urging the adoption of a draconian World War II-style rationing system ? for carbon emissions. ?The Second World War and the concept of rationing is something we need to seriously consider if we are to address the scale of the problem we face,? he explained in the article, urging world rulers to limit electricity and prohibit food imports, among other things. His suggestion would involve a total freeze on economic growth in developed countries and ?carbon rations? for every person on the planet. Unbelievably, at least one of his ?Royal Society? colleagues said even that would not be enough.
Global temperature projection for the coming century, based on warming/cooling cycles of the past several centuries. A projection based on assuming next cool phase will be similar to the 1945-1977 cool phase. B projection based on assuming next cool phase will be similar to the 1880-1915 cool phase. The predicted warm cycle from 2030 to 2060 is based on projection of the 1977 to 1998 warm phase and the cooling phase from 2060 to 2090 is based on projection of the 1945 to 1977 cool cycle. See larger image here
Pursuant to the Anti-Kickback Act, it is unlawful to knowingly offer or pay any remuneration in cash or in kind in exchange for the referral of any product (including a prescription drug) for which payment is sought from any federally-funded health care program. Daiichis kickbacks took the form of honoraria payments, meals, and other remuneration to physicians who participated in Physician Opinion & Discussion programs (PODs) from Jan. 1, 2005 through March 31, 2011, and other speaker programs from Jan. 1, 2004 through Feb. 4, 2011.
But Reed's amendment calls for the SEC to specifically adopt the measures advocated in "Climate Strategies and Metrics," a manifesto put forth by the World Resources Institute and the United Nations Environment Program Finance Initiative. This document says companies should be required to put down specific numbers for "carbon footprinting" and "green/brown metrics." Needless to say these measures are arbitrary, and hard to determine with a specific number.
The next graph shows the ten year running mean of violent tornadoes vs. the GISS US anomaly. Warmer years have fewer tornadoes.
Somin includes the following, which I think is an example of where defenders of the President's process (as different from the outcomes) are missing reality. He writes:
He has about 416 days to go before the planned delivery of the signatures to the Comrade General Secretary of the U.N. So far, he has about 1,100 signatures; 999,998,900 additional signatures are undoubtedly in the pipeline. ;-) The question is a sociological one but you can't fail to notice the complete detachment of this psychiatrically ill man from the real world, his complete lack of common sense.
Current measured long term warming rates range from 1.2-1.6 C/century. Some climatologists claim 6+C for the remainder century, based on climate models. One might think that these estimates are suspect, due to the empirically observed limitations of thecurrent GCMs.
And, please note, not a single advisor, nor any of their climate science "experts" foresaw this lengthy cooling trend that is contrary to the "settled-science" warming predictions.
William Yeatman, FoxNews.com , 1 April 2010
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Four of the 15 methods of determining climate sensitivity the amount of warming to be expected if CO2 doubles are based on looking at recent trends in global temperature. Warming since 1950, when CO2 emissions began in earnest, has occurred at a rate of 2 F per century. Again, comparing the warming since 1950 with the radiative forcings, climate sensitivity works out at just 2 F. Doing the same comparison since 1750 also gives a climate sensitivity of 2 F. And if the maximum rate of warming that lasted more than a decade since global temperature records began in 1850 were to become the average rate of warming for the next 90 years, global temperatures would rise by yes, 2 F.
This month, after a three-year investigation, Harvard University suspended a prominent professor of psychology for scandalously overinterpreting videos of monkey behaviour. The incident has sent shock waves through science because it suggests that a body of data is unreliable. The professor, Marc Hauser, is now a pariah in his own field and his papers have been withdrawn. But the implications for society are not great no policy had been based on his research.
We are beginning to understand that natural variability is pretty high in #5. Alarmist might be call "sun variability deniers" as they refuse to admit that Mr. Sun might have substantial effects on the Earth. They are kind of in a hole, though. They are trying to simultaneously claim in #3 that the climate is dominated by positive feedback, but the same time in #5 claim the climate without man is really, really stable. These two in tandem make no sense.
The 2020 CAFE standards are ambitiousthey require efficiency improvements at nearly two-and-a-half times the historical rate. Yet they weren't ambitious enough for liberal California legislators, who passed a law to accelerate Congress's timeline by four years.
This is quite banal and shows the desperation of those involved in this unbiased survey of a large and broad group of Earth scientists.
"acting director of the National Labor Relations Board for Region 32 in Oakland -- has rejected 88 of 118 objections filed by the National Union of Healthcare Workers over an October election to represent Kaiser Permanente employees. The union vote involved NUHW and the Service Employees International Union-United Healthcare Workers West. The 30 remaining objections will be the subject of a hearing scheduled for Feb. 7."
It should be noted that these new papers, as well as others such as the one showing a 2,000 year general cooling trend with significant variation, do not disprove the hypothesis that human emissions of CO2 are causing global warming. But, they show that climate science, as practiced by the IPCC, is inadequate and that the models used fail to account for major natural influences, and have no predictive skill.
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So there are two aspects to Hansen??s assertion that Scenario B was ???more plausible?? ??? the handling of CFCs in near time and exponential vs linear in deeper time. In the vituperative debate in 1998 and thereafter, no one seems to have focused on the impact of CFC doubling. Does it make sense to say that doubling CFC11 and CFC12 concentrations as a way of modeling the OTGs is ???Business as Usual??? Not doubling these concentrations may very well be ???more plausible??. Indeed, as events turned out, it seems that it was ???more plausible?? not to double CFC concentrations.
1. Major northern water storages above the NSWQLD border line were not adversely affected by the current drought conditions being experienced in Australia, holding on average 90% of their capacity compared to 20% on average for major southern storages.
Ive been telling Java that I did NOT want an update for a while now (not liking the idea of going into brave new worlds of recently released bugs and holes; liking to stay with known good levels); so maybe in a few weeks I can let it go ahead and update
A former Nazi bunker located in the Wilhelmsburg district of Hamburg, Germany is about to get a full-scale makeover. The building, which sorta looks like a giant LEGO, is set to become Europes largest renewable energy power plant.
Because the range of leatherbacks is so great, national legislation on long lines will not be sufficient to save the animals.
The press release does not explain what caused the warm periods over the past 10,000 years, some warmer than today, during which time the IPCC asserts carbon dioxide concentrations were quite stable until the 20th Century.
Reducing emissions globally will require a massive investment in ???clean technologies?? ??? an estimated $2.1 trillion in wind turbines and $1.5 trillion in solar voltaic panels by 2030. These investments will create many green jobs.
The core of the human caused global warming proposition is that an increasing level of greenhouse gases acts to reduce heat loss from the planet making the atmosphere here warmer. But is the greenhouse effect occurring as the IPCC models propose? This study analysed two important factors directly associated with the greenhouse effect, atmospheric temperature and outgoing radiation and finds that outgoing radiation has not declined. The missing heat has gone back to space as usual.
(https://web.archive.org/web/20040719102733/http://sealevel.colorado.edu/2004 rel1.2/sl ib ns cu2004 rel1.2 global.txt) differs from the current one:
The summer temperature reconstruction revealed the presence of warm conditions from the beginning of the record in AD 951 up to about AD 1350, which the authors associate with the Medieval Warm Period. Thereafter, temperatures declined and an extended cold period known as the Little Ice Age ensued, which persisted until approximately 1850 ... with one brief exception. For a few short decades in the mid- to late-1500s, there was an uncharacteristically warm episode, the temperatures of which were only exceeded at the beginning and end of the 1052-year record, i.e., during the Medieval and Current Warm Periods. What it means
Grist magazine reporter David Roberts called to host "war crimes trials for these bastardssome sort of climate Nuremberg."
Oregon Degree Days Deviation Map 41 F
Notably, over 50 percent of currently-active wind capacity is located in only five states; over 75 percent is located in just 11 states. Under the federal wind PTC, however, taxpayers in the states without RPS mandates pay approximately 24 percent of the PTC funding, even though they receive no direct economic benefit. As such, the current federal PTC structure unfairly shifts the cost of wind energy development from taxpayers in the RPS states to those with little or no wind development, forcing taxpayers across the country to support an industry concentrated in a few states.
Alexander et al. published a peer-reviewed study that found storms in the southeast region of Australia showing a significant reduction since the late 19th century.
Mr. Kazman is general counsel of the Competitive Enterprise Institute in Washington.
The climate scientists are not only just wrong, but are now criminals who are intentionally committing fraud. Large parts of the public believe them.
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On the other side of the opinion spectrum, Roger Pielke Jr. , a University of Colorado political scientist, believes that journalists have been too obsequious to climate scientists to the detriment of climate science.
Now that the global warming "hiatus" has expanded to a new record length of 18 years and five months, the RSS satellite temperature record shows a sub-zero trend. But if El Nio conditions occur this year, this may interrupt the warming pause, though the discrepancy between prediction and observation continues to widen. According to Christopher Monckton , who has studied the climate extensively, "the divergence between the models predictions in 1990 ( Fig. 2 ) and 2005 ( Fig. 3 ), on the one hand, and the observed out-turn, on the other, also continues to widen."
Orange County Register editorial, 29 March 2010
These apocalyptic events are so tiring that there is a great temptation to adopt the method of an ancient Chinese Emperor who would generously pay for predictions, but if they would not come true, would have the fortune tellers and their families executed.
"We're from the Earth Guardians group, and we're working on fracking and how it's going to affect our future and our health. So we wrote this song for all the gas companies that are putting their profits ahead of our future."
US House Committee to Examine Obama Administrations Approach for Enforcing Wildlife Laws and Impacts on U.S. Energy
Bringing climate change into the Syria issue does a great disservice to the innocent victims of that tragic conflict. Civil war in Syria is about people seeking to rid themselves of a bloody tyrant. Sadly, it has been exploited by religious fanatics whose endgame does not include benign democracy under rule of law.
The Met Offices figure for a rise of 12 cm in the English Channel during the 20th century comes from a paper by Wahl et al (2013) ( here ). However, these results which are for absolute sea level - show almost no acceleration in sea level rise. At 0.13 cm/year, the trend over 1993-2009 was only 0.1 cm/year higher than the trend over 18802009. Moreover this figure for the most recent rate of sea level rise may be inflated by a non-anthropogenic factor;. it looks from the Gregory et al (2013) 20th century global mean sea level rise paper that recovery from the cooling following the 1991 Mount Pinatubo eruption accounts for a slightly higher rate of sea level rise during 1993-2009, and indeed the post-1993 rate of increase tailed off after 2000.
Up to now, EPA has said and done whatever it deems necessary or convenient to advance its regulatory agenda. The health, environmental and societal costs are unjustified and can no longer be tolerated. It's time to clean house and start enforcing laws against human experiments and fraudulent research.
The response from the defenders of Mr. Mann and his circle has been that even if they did disparage doubters and exclude contrary points of view, theirs is still the best climate science. The proof for this is circular. It's the best, we're told, because it's the most-published and most-citedin that same peer-reviewed literature. The public has every reason to ask why they felt the need to rig the game if their science is as indisputable as they claim.
The focus on direct energy use obscures the fact that Americans have many choices when it comes to reducing their energy and environmental footprint besides cutting back on the direct use of oil, natural gas, and electricity. Those who want to reduce their energy consumption but are unable or unwilling to forego the roomier house or car can cut down on discretionary medical purchases; minimize pharmaceutical waste; cut back on air travel; and replace high-energy foods (beef and refined grain products) with lower-energy foods such as poultry, legumes, and fresh fruits and vegetables. Can we both preserve consumer choice and expand options for energy conservation? Yes, we can.
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Senior Fellow Robert H. Nelson in the Wall Street Journal on how the federal government's disastrous land management policies have led to increasingly destructive wildfires:
Mr Ramesh said the rate of retreat of glaciers in the Himalayas varied from a couple of centimetres a year to a couple of metres, but that this was a natural process that had taken place occurred over the centuries. Some were, in fact, growing, he said.
As you can see, the future holds nothing to fear. There will be a few El Nios in the next ten years, then a moderate cooling as we come off the peak of the 62 and 204 year cycles. There will be more of those in mid-century, as the AMO rises again, then more cooling for a period at the end of the century as both of those cycles bottom out. No extensive warm periods will appear until late in the twenty-second century, as both peak again.
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CEI Response: Our ad did not deny that global warming is happening. It took issue with the prevalent journalistic malpractice of selective reporting to alarm the public into supporting Kyoto-style, all-pain-for-no-gain, energy-suppression policies. If global warming is thickening the ice in Antarctica, then one effect of warming is to mitigate potential sea level rise.
The Danish Meteorological Institute has been tracking Arctic ice extent since 2005. They use the more meaningful30% concentration standard, and as of today show 2010 as the highest on record for the date.
* Attitudes toward global warming have changed little in recent years, remaining highly polarized. The proportion saying the seriousness of global warming is exaggerated was 42 percent in a March 2012 Gallup poll.
"The partisan divide started in 1997," says Jon Krosnick of Stanford University. That was when a Democratic president, Bill Clinton, threw his weight behind the UN effort to introduce mandatory caps for greenhouse-gas emissions. It has since widened. YouGov, a pollster, found in 2013 that 70% of Democratic voters saw evidence of man-made climate change in recent weather patterns, whereas only 19% of Republican voters did. A similar, though smaller, divide was found in Britain.
"Thieves stole credit and debit card PINs from thousands Barnes & Noble customers, not by breaking into the company's website, but by hacking the keypads sitting right on their store counters."
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Each of these issues is critical to the future of the country. They can't be put on the back burner. It is time for some of our lawmakers to show some backbone and look for genuine cross-party solutions or at least interim steps, and not leave Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) twisting alone in the wind.
A few days ago, Marc Morano received some credit from a Joe Romm - the cheerleader-in-chief at recent wild orgies celebrating the death of Michael Crichton - for having determined that Steven Chu, the future U.S. secretary of energy, is not quite psychiatrically OK (much like many similar participants of the Pozna conference) when it comes to warmophobia and related disorders.
Considering the above, Earth's plants are gradually being freed from the environmental fetters that have for so long held them back and prevented them from exhibiting their true productivity potential, thanks to the life-giving carbon dioxide that has been emitted to the atmosphere by mankind's historic and ongoing burning of fossil fuels.
Josh writes:heres my take on that well known scam thats been in the news this week.Astonishing.