Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
The most energy wasteful plants have mostly already been shut under that plan, and achieving further improvements will require more refitting of factories and plants and other more expensive measures, said Deborah Seligsohn, a Beijing-based climate policy expert working for the World Resources Institute.
France and Germany were unwilling to collaborate with the United States
At the same time, Trumpist populists inside and outside Washington will attribute any Trump loss to the perfidy of the party establishment. Aided by the bevy of cable TV hosts, talk radio impresarios, and bloggers who thrive on chaos they will spread the belief that Americans have been betrayed both by Democrats and by weak-kneed and corrupt Republican establishment leaders. They will continue to push nativist and protectionist policies.
In the HadCRUT3 temperature record, the world warmed by 0.07C0.07C from 1999 through 2008, not the 0.20C expected by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Corrected for the natural temperature effects of El Nio and its sister climate event La Nia, the decades trend is a perfectly flat 0.00C.
"There is an unfortunate adage for the unemployed: The longer folks are out of a job, the longer it takes them to find a new one."
(9) When "scientists say" or "science says" is a common locution.
Yesterdays print edition of Germanys high-brow weekly Die Zeit has a full three-page feature story on thegrowing climate science skepticism in the USA and Germany titled The Climate Warriors authored by Kerstin Kohlenberg and Anita Blasberg.
In 1995 everyone agreed the world was warmer in medieval times, but CO2 was low then and that didnt fit with climate models. In 1998, suddenly Michael Mann ignored the other studies and produced a graph that scared the world tree rings show the 1990s was the hottest decade for a thousand years. Now temperatures exactly fit the rise in carbon! The IPCC used the graph all over their 2001 report. Government departments copied it. The media told everyone.
"'Americans have sipped and slurped their way to fatness by drinking far more soda and other sugary drinks over the last four decades, a new scientific review concludes,' reported the Associated Press this week. It's too bad that the AP didn't report the full story as told -- and yet, not told -- in the review itself, rather than apparently just regurgitating the researchers' media release.
Most business insurance agents deal with workers comp., but they can sometimes be fussy about what business they take on, especially in states with workers comp. messes like California and Florida . So, there are a couple of things that you will be asked for in the first 30 seconds of a phone call, so you might as well be ready.
For years now, more and more scientists have been warning that fewer observed sunspots could mean the Earth is heading for a cooling period.
To recap, then: Teske appears to have no more than a Masters degree. He has been a Greenpeace activist and employee for the past 17 years. Depending on which press release you read he is either an expert in renewable energy or on nuclear matters (in the Greenpeace world, these are not the same thing).
Segment 4 is the breaking news of Climategate coming to the US.
As result of diminishing public support in the U.S., the revelation of extreme Green-energy crony-corruption, tightening budgets, and a slow economic recovery, government support for renewable energy is under fire. The Daily Caller reports: "States across the country are aiming to scale back or eliminate laws that require certain amounts of power be purchased from renewable energy sources, including wind."
Increased frequencies of abnormally warm waters in the Gulf of California, possibly as a result of globally warming oceans , coupled with extremely high fishing pressure, are delivering a combined blow to the legendary productivity of the Gulf of California, forcing seabirds to fly away in search for more suitable environments, even if that means abandoning their ancestral nesting grounds and moving into highly transformed industrial landscapes such as the San Diego Saltworks or the LA Harbor Container Terminal.
The most obvious way for warming to be caused naturally is for small, natural fluctuations in the circulation patterns of the atmosphere and ocean to result in a 1% or 2% decrease in global cloud cover. Clouds are the Earths sunshade, and if cloud cover changes for any reason, you have global warming or global cooling.
"It may cost you a bit up front, but the cash from the government means you should have earned back the cost of the solar panels within ten years, says Miles Brignall in The Guardian. Banks are also beginning to get wind of this, and some say they may be prepared to lend money towards installation."
transformed politics during the first months of the new president?
A July 2004 communication from the U.K. East Anglia Climate Research Unit?s director Philip Jones to Michael Mann referred to two papers recently published in Climate Research with a ?HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL? subject line observed: ?I can?t see either of these papers being in the next IPCC report. Kevin and I will keep them out somehow?even if we have to redefine what the peer review literature is?. Jones and Trenberth, head of the Climate Analysis Section of the U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research, were joint lead authors for a key chapter of that 2007 report. Mann was an originator of the infamous ?hockey stick? graph suggesting accelerating human-caused global warming since the Industrial Revolution.
The papers conclusions state that the EF Scale is not adequate for analyzing tornado intensity. I am not sure if the tornado experts at NOAA would agree.
Exhibit 2: The New Answer to Climate Change: Genetically Engineered Dwarf Vegans with Cat's Eyes:
The number of actual weather observation points used as a starting point for world average temperatures was reduced from about 6,000 in the 1970s to about 1,000 now. "That leaves much of the world unaccounted for," says D'Aleo.
Living a speculative life necessarily involves chance of either loss or gain as part and parcel of an acceptance of powers beyond the reach of our own and to which our only civilised affect upon their influence over an outcome can be through negotiation. A person frustrated by the fact of this power might, therefore, express hostility towards the speculative process its presence necessitates and to which his desired outcomes must (to varying degrees) be surrendered.
Readers of CA are familiar with the fact that key data sets used over and over by the Team in multiproxy studies ??? Yamal, Taymir etc. ??? are not archived and that Briffa refuses to disclose the data. These problems were brought to the attention of the NAS Panel. Indeed, I specifically confronted two presenters to the NAS PAnel, D??Arrigo and Hegerl, about the unavailability of data and asked the NAS panel to get it. The NAS panel did nothing. Instead of reporting on these issues, North cited a 1997 study saying the following:
This figure of 10% reminds me of the IPCC: the reality (warming etc.) is also approximately 10% of their dreams only. These people have no sense of reality. That's probably why Lewis Pugh was awarded for his failure (and for the falsification of his silly opinions about the climate) and asked to speak to the U.S. Congress about "climate change and security". ;-)
(1) The transfer of billions of euros from European taxpayers to Big Oil/Big Energy firms , under the emission trading scheme
If I had the code, this analysis wouldnt have required all three R, Matlab and Excel.
At the People?s Climate Conference, which was held in tandem with the 2009 Copenhagen Summit, Higgins explained that we need a paradigm shift, a change in approaches to addressing climate change. She said we need to stop looking at planet Earth as an ?inert thing? that can be commoditised, since this only benefits businesses. Instead, we should view the planet as a living being that has intrinsic value. Only when such a mindset prevails can we really ensure that humans will start taking responsibility for the planet.
The authors write that "global warming is predicted to induce desiccation in many world regions through increases in evaporative demand," but they say that "rising CO 2 may counter that trend by improving plant water-use efficiency." However, they are very forthright in noting that "it is not clear how important this CO 2 -enhanced water use efficiency might be in offsetting warming-induced desiccation because higher CO 2 also leads to higher plant biomass, and therefore greater transpirational surface."
The national office of the Sierra Club has had to quash local chapters' opposition to some solar projects, sending out a 42-page directive making it clear that the club's national policy goals superseded the objections of a local group. Animosity bubbled over after a local Southern California chapter was told to refrain from opposing solar projects."
Australias Labor government has what many claim to be a relatively modest target: a reduction in emission of between 5 and 15 percent. But even these reductions would be impossible to meet without a switch to nuclear energy or the development of a new source of base load energy supply see for example Energy Technology for Climate Change a report from the Australian Academy of Technical Sciences and Engineering.
Prior to the Industrial Revolution, it is likely that rice had a more difficult time growing than it does today. At lower atmospheric CO 2 concentrations, it is likely that rice plants had to reallocate valuable resources into rubisco and other photosynthetic proteins just to ensure that net carbon uptake could prevail for plant survival. Thus, it is likely that plants were smaller and produced less yield than they do today. Therefore, it logically follows that the rise in the air's CO 2 content, beginning with the Industrial Revolution and still ongoing, is making carbon uptake and biomass production easier and more efficient for this important agricultural species.
package were amplified by the failure to get top Treasury people in office
"The merger between Bwin Entertainment and PartyGaming will be finalized in the next couple of months, and when the deal is complete, Bwin shareholders will hold a slight majority stake in the newly formed company. PartyGaming shareholders, however, will have plenty of stake in the new brand."
Mathematical physicist Dr. Frank J. Tipler, Prof. of Mathematical Physics, astrophysics, at Tulane University: ?Whether the ice caps melt, or expand whatever happens the AGW theorists claim it confirms their theory. A perfect example of a pseudo-science like astrology. It is obvious that anthropogenic global warming is not science at all.?
The result, by almost any account, has been a fiasco. Pouring corn into our gas tanks has led to a spike in food prices worldwide. Those high prices have caused food shortages and even riots in other countries (several in just the last month). While people starve, biofuels are creating an environmental disaster as well. In places like Indonesia, forestland is being cleared at alarming rates in order to plant palm oil crops and cash in on the artificial demand for biofuels. The result is a holocaust for many endangered animals. "The orangutan is being crucified on a cross of green," Murray notes.
CEI Expert Available to Comment: General Counsel Sam Kazman on why the EPA should now reconsider its findings on climate change:
Seitz is as bad as the tobacco industry? Lets get real.
There is a massive problem with photo-voltaic solar power. Modern cities and industries require power 24/7 but solar panels can only deliver significant energy from 9am to 3pm on a clear day a maximum of 25% of the time. Even within this time, energy production peaks at midday and falls off steeply on either side.
FURTHER READING: Zycher also writes "Would a Carbon Dioxide Tax be "Efficient'?" and "Earth Day and Four Decades of Fear." Kenneth Green describes "The Continuing Failure of Green Conceit" and takes on the task of "Dissecting the Carbon Tax." Mark J. Perry opines "Natural Gas and Nuclear Power Need to Share the Lead in Power Generation for the Future" and joins Thomas A. Hemphill to explain "How Obama's Energy Policy Will Kill Jobs." James Pethokoukis wonders if it's "Time for the GOP to Take the Lead on Climate Change?" while Andrew Rugg blogs about "Natural Gas: The Free Agent of Energy Sources" and Jonah Goldberg writes "All (Green) Thumbs."
At the Earth Day gathering, UN secretary-General Ban Ki-moon declared: "We are in a race against time."
This follows a seismic reply to a surprise public relations stunt that shook loose many of the Heartland Institutes funders.
So conventional oil, by ancient hallowed convention handed down through the millennia, is found in tar pits and oil seeps on the surface. Which means that people being so rash as to drill for oil, by definition, would be pumping up unconventional oil but of course, life is not that simple.
And finally, I return to the issues raised in the preceding post, 20 tips for interpreting scientific claims. Some commenters seemed to think this was pretty much kindergarten stuff and of course policy makers (or their staffers) understand this stuff. Well anyone taking seriously the White House?s SCC numbers needs to go back to kindergarten and pay attention to the 20 tips.
The expenditure debate swirls around the question of whether an agency's objectives (say, the Department of Defense, or DOD) would be better advanced by spending more in category A (say, a new air mobile division) than in Category B (say, a new battleship). An agency will, of course, fight for the highest possible budget, but it does so largely on political grounds, as would a regulatory agency in a similar situation). The difference, however, is that attention in the expenditure case focuses on the question of whether one believes the Defense budget is too high, too low, or just about right. DOD has most to say about how that money is to be allocated between the services or between technologies or between weapon systems and trainingor, more often, between one congressional district and another.
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The Economist, which initially played down the scandal, is almost as astonished by the refusal of the Climategate inquiries to examine the science:
Over 200 peer-reviewed papers demonstrating solar control of climate published since 2010
Reminder: the TOA outgoing longwave radiation component of the Earths budget represents the infrared radiation emitted to space. Like outgoing shortwave radiation, outgoing longwave radiation is a model-calculated value, not an input like incident shortwave radiation.
Whatever the President has to say about "climate change" should be taken as just one more example of 5 years of lies to advance policies that have nothing to do with the welfare of Americans needing jobs or the execrable Obamacare attack on the U.S. healthcare system.
Last Monday, April 4th was one of the most active days in recent memory for the Storm Prediction Center and folks who live in the southeast with 1347 severe weather reports (1220 high wind, 89 hail and 38 tornado) from the Ohio River southeast to northern Florida. Virtually everyone in the southeastern United States felt the fury.
(1.) An anthropogenic global warming component that is supposed to explain the warming trend of the global sea surface temperatures. Thats the part they portray as evil, but it doesnt exist so theres nothing sinister behind the warming of the global oceans. Then there are the two natural factors;
The IPCC-projected rise of up to 1m by the end of this century would require an average rate of up to 12mm/yr for the rest of this century, some four times the current rate, and an order of magnitude larger than implied by the 20th century acceleration of0.01mm/yr found in some studies. What drives the projected sea level rise? To what extent is it dependent upon a continued rise in Global Mean Surface Temperature?
In this satellite image the blue colour in the northern hemisphere represents low carbon dioxide emissions from the industrial nations of the US, UK and EU. The red colour in the southern hemisphere represents high carbon emissions from forested vegetation areas in equatorial regions. This is precisely the opposite of what an alarmist and quiescent mainstream media would have you believe.
Heres how the Anchorage data has been homogenized. Figure 1 shows the difference between the Anchorage data before and after homogenization:
So, are polar bears really threatened with extinction? All the evidence says they are not in any trouble right now: the classification of polar bears as threatened with extinction is based completely on predictions made by computer models about what might happen by 2050. However, the results of recent polar bear research have disproved, or called into question, many of the assumptions used to make those models work. That leads me to conclude that polar bears are not endangered.
And thus the debate stood, until a Danish scientist named Henrik Svensmark suggested something outrageous -- that cosmic rays might seed cloud formation. The implications, if true, hadpotentiallyenormous implications for the debate about natural causes of warming.
Surprisingly, we found that the indirect energy component of America's total energy consumption is almost as large as the direct energy component. As stated earlier, indirect energy consumption represents about 46 percent of all consumption, while direct energy represents the remaining 54 percent.
"Federal Deposit Insurance Corp Chairman Sheila Bair said she did not believe legislation would be needed to address concerns over whether the paperwork was properly done so long as investigations show the issue was mostly "procedural."Greece Likely to Default By 2013 as Debts Remain, El-Erian Says:
"What we know is that, as human beings are placed under strain, then bad things happen," Mr. Obama told CBS. "And, you know, if you look at world history, whenever people are desperate, when people start lacking food, when people are not able to make a living or take care of their families, that's when ideologies arise that are dangerous."
Then in Italy the famous person and 'matter of gossip, Britain becomes the victim of a hate physical and very little latent, especially if he is discovered to be a person from the long-term success. And who detest then more 'if not who and' became famous, there 'remained and even won three elections in a row, Tony Blair as Margaret Thatcher? Other than stopping the natural phenomena! The Prime Minister who could do no wrong in 1997, can not name one right in 2005, and an archaeologist of the XXV century he found The archive of the British media today you might be wondering why it was in power a type described as shady, surrounded by friends servile or corrupted, disconnected from its electorate, poodle servant of the US and with no morals.
Britains laws on climate change that push up energy bills for millions of households have been spared, despite George Osbornes plea for a reduction in expensive green regulations.
Decrease average household purchasing power by $730 in 2015, $800 in 2020, $830 in 2030, and $940 in 2050.
At EconLog, Bryan Caplan sums up succinctly the method whereby President Bush this week was able to sound more predisposed toward a global treaty to limit greenhouse gas emissions -- that is, ration carbon-based energy -- without really being so:
Geithner's Goal: Rebalance World Economy:
The biggest tuning knob for getting models to match reality is the one labeled forcing from aerosols. This knob is especially useful because we really dont know where exactly it should be setthus different modeling groups can set it just about anywhere they would like to get their models to produce the right answer. The knob was installed in the first place because without it the models produce too much warming from greenhouse gas increases alone. So, add a knob that can be used to counteract some of that warming (taken together aerosols in the models produce a cooling), and you get the right answer without having to make any other major changes to the model!
Current policies plainly have the unintended consequences of discouraging worthwhile investments and maintenance activities that would benefit companies and consumers as well as the environment. Many of these investments and activities were once correctly understood to be outside the scope of NSR, and ought once again be put beyond NSR's reach.
On a recent visit to Utah, Professor Hajo Eicken, one of the leading experts in the study of Arctic ice melt, explained some of the findings of his research.
Tesla Motors received $256 million to produce electric cars for wealthy elites who receive $2,500 to $7,500 in tax credits, plus free charging and express lane access. From 2007 to 2013, corn ethanol interests spent $158 million lobbying for more "green" mandates and subsidies and $6 million in campaign contributions for a fuel that reduces mileage, damages engines, requires enormous amounts of land, water and fertilizer, and from stalk to tailpipe emits more carbon dioxide than gasoline. General Electric spends tens of millions lobbying for more taxpayer renewable energy dollars; so do many other companies. The payoffs add up to tens of billions of dollars, from taxpayers and consumers.
However, it's very hard to credit that a minister of the crown would be persuaded that the panels were independent and that the science stands - how would we know when it hasn't been examined? My impression is that the civil service are playing Willetts like a fiddle.
The perspicacious Ambrose did not stop there. He gave a clear example of a suspect syllogism, in which the statement that sixty men can do a piece of work sixty times as quickly as one man (major premise), followed by the statement that one man can dig a post-hole in sixty seconds (minor premise), leads to the unavoidable mathematical conclusion that sixty men can dig a post-hole in one second. Those who have, at one time or another, actually had a shovel in their hands, may find this questionable.
The Progressives he depicts as Protestant reformers, determined to professionalize institutions and tame the immigrant and industrial masses. Progressive projects included women's suffrage and prohibition of alcohol.
One of the basic tenets of the scientific method is that work should be reproducible by other scientists. In order for climate scientists' work to be reproduced it is necessary for their data and the computer programs which transform it into results to be freely available. There are many instances of climate scientists refusing to release data, or "losing" it . This has happened with prominent scientists and key scientific papers. So some of the most important scientific work of recent years - work which underpins the IPCC process and the doom-laden results which it announces to the world - is not capable of being replicated. A reputable scientific body would disassociate itself from suspect papers of this kind. The IPCC embraces them.
a. Capital costs. Wind farm capital costs are much higher than the capital costs associated with conventional generating facilities such as those powered by natural gas. The high capital costs of wind farms include the engineering costs, cost of turbines, towers, blades, reinforced concrete tower bases, substations, controls, road and site work, construction equipment, construction labor, construction overhead, and, in some cases, cost of capital.
The Academy authors must have found it hard to carry off, with a straight face, this fiction of perfect knowledge. The paper itself acknowledges that there are significant uncertainties in the impact of water vapor, clouds, aerosols, the carbon cycle, the sun, the catch-all internal fluctuations etc (the Academy doesnt even mention the king-sized uncertainties about the influence of multi-decadal Pacific and Atlantic oscillations). And whatever validation of the models occurred with respect to past temperatures, it was achieved by endless tweaking of parameters using the benefits of hindsight.