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"Political funding has received the most attention, but the idea has now spread well beyond politics into the larger policy world. The goal is to eliminate business funding not only from politics, but from the entire intellectual world. Many major science and medical journals, for example, now impose financial disclosure requirements on their authors, stigmatizing research underwritten by business. Anti-business groups seek to bar from government advisory committees individuals who've consulted with business. And, as the fallout from the Abramoff scandal demonstrates, this assault has now extended to demonizing corporate support for conservative policy groups."
Mark Gillar who writes the Hootville Gazette has taken the initiative and arranged a set of radio interviews with the whos who of skeptics, like Lord Monckton, Patrick Michaels, Ann McElhinney, Marc Morano, Chris Horner, Steve Milloy, Joseph DAleo, and yours truly. The first one starts tomorrow morning (US time). You can e-mail or phone in questions. Some details are below, but most are on the Global Cooling Radio site and, of course, details may change in the future, so check in at his site.
The Department of Interiorcould list more species as threatened or endangered based on climate change concerns.
In terms of overall landfast sea ice extent across the entire East Antarctic region (from 10??W to 172??E), as the five Australian researchers describe it, "there has been a statistically significant increase (at the 99% confidence level) of 1.43 0.3% per year," and they say that the regional short-term trends for different sectors of the coast "broadly agree with the longer-term (1979-2008) trend in overall sea ice (comprising both pack ice and fast ice) extent/area (e.g., Cavalieri and Parkinson, 2008; Comiso, 2009)."
For example, as part of a parallel campaign by 17 state attorneys general to investigate fossil-energy companies for the alleged crime of delaying climate action, U.S. Virgin Islands Attorney General Claude E. Walker on April 7 subpoenaed the Competitive Enterprise Institute, demanding ten years' worth of communications, emails, statements, drafts, and other documents regarding CEI's work on climate change and energy policy, including private donor information.
www.eyretribune.com .au/story/.../australias-antarctic-runway-melting...
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More work needs to be done to understand the upward trends in path length and width. The increases lead to an apparent increase in tornado intensity across all EF categories .
So without having found anything thatsnevertheless they have astatement that begins in their report, therefore.
The animation below shows how they reduced both the pre-1940 warming, and the post-1940 cooling. Neither are explainable by global warming theory, so government expertsmade both largely disappear.
The role of capitalism and free markets in raising people out of poverty was acknowledged by Pope John Paul II in his Encyclical "Centesimus Annus" in 1981. He wrote: "The obligation to earn one's bread by the sweat of one's brow also presumes the right to do so. A society in which this right is systematically denied, in which economic policies do not allow workers to reach satisfactory levels of employment, cannot be justified from an ethical point of view, nor can that society attain social peace."
Texas Order in Exxon Case Flagged in CEI's Case Against AG Walker Over Subpoena
Beaulieu didn't believe in Jesus, so he didn't care. However, the parrot continued:
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Adjunct Fellow Dr. Henry I. Miller on the Vioxx scare and the problems with the Food and Drug Administration's approval process.
Why does that matter? Because the most powerful greenhouse gas (water vapor) does its thing at the top of the troposphere (around 200 hPa) ??? that??s where it radiates energy out to space. Below that level the energy is effectively ricocheting back and forward ??? bouncing between molecules or causing collisions and generally rarely getting out to space where it is then gone for good.
Randy has read your letter. We will seek the advice of one of the experts you approved.
So, the next question is, what favors unseasonably cool weather over the West during tornado season? This is where the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) comes in.
Biofuels cannot displace enough of the world oil market to cause economic hardship to enemy regimes (we are actually allies with most of our major suppliers), nor will renewables put a dent in the pocketbook of terrorists. As terrorism expert Colonel G. I. Wilson points out, "most insurgencies are low-tech in nature. Terrorists don't need oil money. For terrorists, the money flow doesn't come from oil, it comes from drugs, crime, human trafficking and the weapons trade." That should be self-evident, as many terrorist groups exist in countries that do not have oil wealth. The Tamil Tigers have used terror in Sri Lanka, the Basque separatist group Euskadi Ta Askatasuna has used it in Spain, and the IRA has used it in Irelandand none of them needed petrodollars for their actions. Nor for that matter do the Taliban or the Palestinians. Osama bin Laden's family wealth was made in the construction industry.
January 2016: the U.S. Becomes a Global Energy Superpower
The sun is almost completely blank. The main driver of all weather and climate, the entity which occupies 99.86% of all of the mass in our solar system, the great ball of fire in the sky has gone quiet again during what is likely to be the weakest sunspot cycle in more than a century. The sun??s X-ray output has flatlined in recent days and NOAA forecasters estimate a scant 1% chance of strong flares in the next 24 hours. Not since cycle 14 peaked in February 1906 has there been a solar cycle with fewer sunspots. We are currently more than six years into Solar Cycle 24 and the current nearly blank sun may signal the end of the solar maximum phase. Solar cycle 24 began after an unusually deep solar minimum that lasted from 2007 to 2009 which included more spotless days on the sun compared to any minimum in almost a century.
There are some interesting questions being posed at the Which Climate Change Consensus? (Part 2) thread. Following are two questions from Graham Young that interests me. They seems to have been lost amongst the more general policy and economic discussion about Kyoto.
On the face of it, the scheme seems to be pretty successful. However, much of the downward trend was due to the global economic recession, not to the ETS. Moreover, both climate chaos proponents and climate disaster skeptics agree that the scheme will have no detectable impact whatsoever on worldwide temperatures perhaps 0.1 degrees though this crucial piece of information has been carefully and deliberately shielded from the public eye.
Yet another significant paper finds low climate sensitivity to CO2, suggesting there is no global warming crisis at hand
The Beijing Normal University Earth System Model (BNU-ESM) (7 April 2015)
One thing to note here is how little Mike??s position is actually at odds with a solar explanation for late 20th century warming. Suppose the solar activity peak was not in 85, but several years later, as a straightforward reading of the data suggests. (As documented in Part 1 , solar cycle 22, which began in 1986, was more active than cycle 21 by pretty much every measure.) If the solar activity peak shifts five years then Mike??s temperature response formula says peak GMAST should have occurred by 2000, which is pretty close to when it did occur.
When I ran the above graph for EF-5 tornadoes, I had left the zero fields blank. This apparently gives a false trend line, so I have now rerun it with zeros. The result, as below, now shows the true position, which is a declining trend.
The author concludes that the results of his simulation suggest "much of the observed climatic variability over the past millennium may just be a reflection of natural climatic variability within the actual climate system, with occasional anomalies associated, for example, with volcanic eruptions, being superimposed on this background of natural variability."
Research is beginning to show that climate change mitigation and adaptation actions can increase the risk of armed conflict, as well as compound vulnerabilities in certain populations (Bumpus and Liverman, 2008; Adger and Barnett, 2009; Webersik, 2010; Fairhead et al., 2012; Marino and Ribot, 2012; Steinbruner et al., 2012). This is based on robust evidence that violent political struggles occur over the distribution of benefits from natural resources (Peluso and Watts, 2001). Hence, in circumstances where property rights and conflict management institutions are ineffective or illegitimate, efforts to mitigate or adapt to climate change that change the distribution of access to resources have the potential to create and aggravate conflict.
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As the CO 2 content of the air increases, swards of perennial ryegrass will likely exhibit increased rates of photosynthesis and dry matter production. In addition, elevated CO 2 concentrations should favor the growth of belowground organs. Thus, the carbon sequestering prowess of grasslands dominated by perennial ryegrass is likely to increase with future increases in the air's CO 2 content.
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Adjunct Analyst Steven Milloy on the relationship between obesity and consumption of sugar-sweetened soda:
In GHG control, the Chinese government would have no real interest in transparency. Could the U.S., especially in that case, accurately determine how much coal China is burning? Could it know if a carbon tax has been enforced on state-owned enterprises in Qinghai? Could it ensure that such a tax had not been offset with concealed subsidies? Neither China's record, nor America's, reassures on these points.
With the above background on nuances of variability, Ill now consider how the analysis in the Wells Report and Snyders criticism.
If scientists cannot or will not explain the issue, then farmers have very little chance of protecting a technology that has immense value to consumers.
An analysis of geological records that preserve details of the last known period of global warming has revealed startling results which suggest current targets for limiting climate change are unsafe.
More Thoughts on Immigration -- Why I Think the Tiberius Gracchus Analogy is Particularly Apt
Meanwhile, the Obama Administration continues to push to reduce supposed global-warming emissions. Last month, the President even signed an executive order establishing a Council on Climate Preparedness and Resilience that could dramatically expand government bureaucrats' ability to restrict Americans' use of their property, water, and energy to reduce so-called "greenhouse gas emissions."
In July 2006, 46% of voters said global warming is caused primarily by human activities, while 35% said it is due to long-term planetary trends.
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Many organisations in rural Australia behave like turkeys. They are happily taking money from government believing they will keep getting fed. Of course government is handing out a lot of money at the moment.
Sea ice area is above normal in the Beaufort Sea, and unprecedented below freezing temperatures are forecast for most of the rest of the July.
More evidence backing up Ball?s position comes from the polar regions. New reports from the National Snow and Ice Data Center suggest Antarctic ice levels are at record highs. Ball said the southern hemisphere has been cooling for some time. He believes the clinching evidence comes from the Arctic Circle.
I don't think it's a coincidence that Immelt is suddenly saying jobs are his biggest concern now that he's the chairman of the White House's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness. If Immelt proved one thing during his long experiment with "ecomagination" it was that he sees no problem with gaming politics as part of his business model.
Someone among them said it would establish a circle of the Northern League in Rosarno: c already in Pantelleria, and a girl of Scilla, Carmela Santagati, 29, the last European elections on 6 and 7 June 2009 with the League's candidate North Calabria and took almost two thousand votes. Probably will be nominated to the nearby regional elections in the list Calabrese of the Northern League, that strange but true in Calabria is the last one today presidium of the State against the Ndrangheta, the only foothold possible for ordinary people than the Ndrangheta, the only organization that in situations like the Ndrangheta similar chooses to side with the citizens.
"The real damage caused by these scandals resulted from the lazy reporting done by most journalists on the subject. The media failed to report the real story of "Climategate" that a crime was committed by thieves who stole from a prestigious university in order to further an agenda of harassment against climate scientists. And while "Glaciergate" was an embarrassing screw-up by the IPCC, it didn't change the fact that glaciers are melting worldwide, causing sea level rise that is already affecting coastal communities."
An economist, who "got $50,000 from Enron to serve on the company's phantom-like advisory board" - that's that company that invented the global warming industry - derides an economist as having expertise on global warming in a column proclaiming, as an economist, to possess 'the truth' about global warming, unlike those silly lawyers, marketing professors (actually, statistician and forecasting expert) and, erm, economists.
In the following photograph you can see vegetation black from the 2006-07 Lawsons Long Alley fire which burnt about 14,440 hectares of national park. There has been lots of rain recently and the undgrowth is recovering with many beautiful wildflowers.
Anderegg, W.R., Prall, J.W. Harold, J.., Schneider, S. (2010) Expert Credibility in Climate Change, Proc Nat Acad Sci.
This April ??? 2013 ??? is seeing avg. temps at -4.8C! Right now we are a whopping 10 degrees below normal for this time of the year!
Sen. John Kerry blames global warming for recent tornadoes in the Southeast U.S.
But considering how much attention would have been lavished on a comparable run of hot weather or on a warming trend that was plainly accelerating, shouldnt the recent cold phenomena and the absence of any global warming during the past 10 years be getting a little more notice? Isnt it possible that the most apocalyptic voices of global-warming alarmism might not be the only ones worth listening to?
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One possible cause of the linear increase may be that the Earth is still recovering from the Little Ice Age. World glaciers and sea ice in the Arctic Ocean have been receding since 1800 or earlier; these are not just recent phenomena. It seems to me that most climate researchers are so caught up in the CO2 effect, the Little Ice Age has been all but forgotten.
HAYDEN: Butbutisnt that a formal fallacy? That I should believe you just because you threatened me?
It is a mistake to then regard the atmosphere as radiating down to the surface because the atmosphere always radiates upward. Instead we should regard the atmosphere as being heated by energy scattering from the surface upward such that it is the temperature of the atmosphere just at or above the surface that passes energy back to the ground and not the sky as proposed by AGW theory.
Now a new Paris climate treaty says the "ultimate goal" is to stabilize atmospheric CO2 and other greenhouse gas concentrations at levels that will "prevent dangerous interference with the climate system" under the assumption that CO2 now drives climate change and weather events.
But we wondered if one could do better than the GHG proxy approach and offer Americans other options for reducing their energy consumption without incurring large upfront costs or giving up major conveniences like roomy houses and cars or even just pretty light fixtures. Using data from the U.S. Department of Commerce's Bureau of Economic Analysis, we calculated how much energy Americans use in consumption of goods not normally thought of as energy consuming, including food, consumer goods, and transportation.
Yeah butthe proponents of anthropogenic global warming repeatedly sayYeah but
In the Alaska experiment, they warmed the permafrost by 2C over a 20-yr period (10 times the actual rate of warming since the 1800s) and there wasn??t the slightest hint of an accelerated methane release.
Higher CAFE? Why Would Anybody Ever Want That?
I was just as confident as Schmidt that CRUs planned publication would feature a chronology that would be more HS-like than the 2006 regional chronology. After all, CRU had ferociously contested production of their calculation, even under FOI. Osborn argued that release of the 2006 regional chronology would result in:
Above: Danish Meteorological Institute Arctic Sea Ice Extent 30% or greater. Note that while this graph shows 30% concentration at the cutoff point, it is valuable to compare.
Bill Kininmonth knows a lot about climate science, he is a meteorologist and he was the head of Australias National Climate Centre from 1986 to 1998. He is also a well known global warming skeptic and is particularly critical of the idea that the principles for sustaining the greenhouse effect are well understood. While this may seem like a ridiculous proposition, indeed the greenhouse effect is the underpinning science for the hypothesis of dangerous global warming, in a recent letter to the Federation of Australian Scientists and Technologists (FASTS) he explains how the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) are neither consistent in their explanation for the greenhouse effect nor provide a mechanism that accords with the global average earth energy budget.
?There are large meanders in the jet stream, and they?re called blocking events because they block off the normal moist, mild winds we get from the Atlantic, and instead we get cold air being dragged down from the Arctic and from Russia,? he says.
"Throughout his entire presidency," said Kish, "Obama has promoted policies that have discouraged the use of our vast energy resources, including blocking the Keystone XL pipeline, slowing energy development on government lands and water, and forcing new restrictions on all forms of energy that Americans have used to become the number one economy in the world. Under this administration, even cows are not spared as emission sources that must be controlled in Washington."
Review finds crustaceans adapt to ocean warming with increased diversity and range
Bad news for the IPCC hypothesis. Rather than volcanoes counteracting the expected warming and decreasing the atmospheric transmission of sunshine over the period of record, we had a trend of increasing amounts of sunlight making it to the surface. The trend of this increase was 0.34 W/m2 per decade. Kinda blows holes in their theory about volcanoes, but all we can do is follow the data ...
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Will the Party of No Foil the Half-Baked Greenhouse Machiavellis?
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Schmidt and Osborns most recent comments were on July 2, the last day that comments were open on the thread, otherwise I would have attempted to respond at Real Climate. Unfortunately it takes more time to respond to their fantasies than it does for them to make them.
Heres some breaking news: Its January and in many parts of America, it snows; sometimes a lot. When I was a kid I got my sled and, together with other kids celebrating the snow day, took to the hills. We threw snowballs and came home soaked and exhausted. Mother would hang my wet clothes on a radiator to dry.
In the meantime, watch out for those ads that Minister Combet is going to run towards this end. After all, you're paying for them.
As rainforests are cleared to make way for biofuels, their inhabitants evicted from their ancestral lands, as land is diverted from food to energy production, as hunger grips the poorest and most vulnerable people of the world, as havoc is wrought on the countryside and its wildlife, as money is handed to big business, as the old and less well-off worry about their ability to pay their energy bills, those whose work has been behind the change in approach to climate change must surely have pause for thought.
Some quick background. Early last September, Shukla, Maibach, and 18 other climate advocates sent a letter to President Obama, Attorney General Lynch, and Office of Science and Technology Policy Director Holdren, urging the administration to launch a "RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupted Organizations Act) investigation of corporations and other organizations that have knowingly deceived the American people about the risks of climate change, as a means to forestall America's response to climate change."
These tax increases are breaches of Obama's campaign promise not to raise taxes on people making less than $250,000 a year, which he earlier broke by signing into law the regressive SCHIP excise tax increase.
I was almost certain that the moment would eventually arrive. It's here.
McCook et al. state that, Another important observation emerging from this review is the extent of relevant data that are not published or readily accessible. A full picture of the effects and effectiveness of zoning on the GBR has required extensive use of gray literature, previously unpublished data, and collation of separate data sources . GBRMPA has been the sponsor of most of the research cited and, through the permit system, they exercise control over the terms of all other research conducted there. They are also a major publisher of GBR literature, both scientific and non-technical. The extent to which relevant data is not published or readily accessible is their direct responsibility.
"America has won the lottery," Moore and White wrote. "We have hit the jackpot. ... Achieving energy self-sufficiency will generate enough money in royalties and corporate income taxes to pay off much of the national debt without any other tax revenues."
EU emissions from international aviation are increasing fast doubling since 1990 as air travel becomes cheaper without its environmental costs being addressed, according to the EC.
Lawmakers in the House last week added funds to buy those planes, and plus funds to buy an additional two 737s and two Gulfstream V planes. The purchases must still be approved by the Senate. The Air Force version of the Gulfstream V each costs $66 million, according to the Department of Defense, and the 737s cost about $70 million.
In taking stock of what was found, elevated CO 2 had no negative effects and only one positive effect; but the latter was an important one on growth . Ozone, on the other hand, had multiple negative effects, but they were all alleviated by elevated CO 2 ; and these findings suggest a huge win for CO 2 in its battle with O 3 to impact the growth and development of Chinese pine trees.
Alas, this display, too, is mere propaganda. Walking past the tree late at night, we saw not a single eco-zomb pedaling to keep the lights on, but they were burning brightly anyway. The Copenhagen Christmas tree is a monument to the dishonesty of the entire ?global warming? fraud.
The broad conclusion is that the multi-decadal global climate models are unable to to accurately simulate the linear trends of surface and tropospheric temperatures for the 1979-1999 time period on the regional and tropical zonally-averaged spatial scale. Their ability to skillfully simulate the global averages surface and tropospheric temperature trend on this time scale is, at best, inconclusive.