Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
The 'great humanitarian', Vladimir Lenin said the way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation. The great philosopher, Bertrand Russell said western populations would gladly accept serfdom if it was packaged as saving the Earth.
The Royal Society of New South Wales held a meeting on Saturday in Mittagong on Global Warming and The Cosmos. Speakers included the director of the Danish National Space Centre, Eigil Friis-Christensen, and Graeme Pearman, former head of the CSIRO Atmospheric Division and now a consultant with GP Consulting Pty Ltd and an advisor to Al Gore and Ross Garnaut.
Interesting to note that Oklahoma minimum temperatures in 2011 were in the bottom ten,includingthe coldestOklahomatemperature ever recorded, -31F on February 10, 2011.
Stalagmites*, tree lines and ice cores all confirm that it was significantly warmer 7000 years ago. Evidence from Greenland suggests that the Arctic ocean was probably ice free for part of the late summer at that time.
Patron is not alone. Reports across the country have alleged damages brought on by concentrated sunlight reflected off of energy efficient windows. The National Association of Home Builders is now conducting a study on the matter.
It is true especially for northern middle latitudes. There are not sufficient data for southern hemisphere and it is necessary to differentiate between the tropic and the polar regions.
What happened? In March 2016, Al Gore and a coalition of state attorneys general held a press conference announcing plans to "use all the tools at disposal" to intimidate and prosecute organizations for simply voicing their opinions and publishing research on climate change. A week later, Attorney General Claude Walker of the U.S. Virgin Islands subpoenaed CEI for a decade's worth of communications, emails, statements, and other documents regarding CEI's work on climate change and energy policy, including private donor information from 1997-2006. The subpoena threatened CEI's rights to freedom of speech and freedom of association.
5 But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;
Alternatively, we might also say thatif the Earth is in numerical flux equilibrium with the Sun, then that means that the Sun must deposit the same flux of energy as the Earth emits. Therefore the Sun must deposit 240 W/m2. However, this is only -18 degrees C if you check what the temperature of this flux is with the Stefan-Boltzmann equation, and that is not nearly high enough to melt ice into water let alone evaporate water into vapour. Obviously, the problem here is that Sun does not deposit its energy over the same surface area that the Earth emits energy.
Before approving the new alfalfa and sugar beet varieties, which were crafted to be resistant to the herbicide Roundup, USDA scientists evaluated data from hundreds of government monitored field trials over a period of nearly a decade, along with numerous other studies of the real-world effects of other Roundup-resistant crops (marketed as "Roundup Ready"). The trait is harmless to humans and other animals, and several other Roundup Ready crop varieties, including corn, canola, soybeans, and cotton, are grown annually on more than 60 million acres in the United States alone.
"We could see temperature rises in the future of between 1-4 degrees as a result of greenhouse gases way beyond what humans on earth have experienced before, so local authorities have to take on the science and show leadership with new forms of energyas well as adaptation and mitigation measures."
Singer Converges on ZERO Climate Carbon Forcing
Once again in the words of the authors, "our data provide plot-scale evidence linking changes in vascular plant abundance to local summer warming in widely dispersed tundra locations across the globe," as (as we always like to add) the greening of planet earth continues , thanks not only to global warming, but also to the aerial-fertilization and water-use-efficiency-enhancing effects of atmospheric CO 2 enrichment.
Heres a quandary for the global warming crusade. The scientists state that Despite significantly cooler than modern SSTs in the Atlantic during the latter half of the Little Ice Age, the frequency of intense hurricane landfalls increased during this time. Had these two found an increase in hurricane activity given warmer conditions, they would be paraded right down Broadway. But finding increased activity in colder periods means no parade, but a feature in World Climate Report.
It is now the end of third week of August, and extent has hardly changed since he made that forecast on August 12. Looks like a classic case of Dipolar Disorder to me.
Thus, unless one either assumes a constant albedo with increasing CO2, or shows that incoming solar radiation is not significantly affected by CO2, temperature increases are not certain with increasing CO2. Given that the predicted GHG hotspot is not observed, which is inconsistent with GHG theory, neither of these assumptions would appear reasonable.
Writing in The Wall Street Journal on April 22, Kenneth C. Hill, Director of the Tennessee Regulatory Authority, said "Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) set off a firestorm when he advised states not to comply with the Environmental Protection Agency's Clean Power Plan. Yet that advice isn't as radical as his detractors make it sound. As a state public utilities commissioner who deals with the effects of federal regulations on a regular basis, I also recommend that states not comply."
Butterfly populations could suffer population crashes as a result of the record-breaking wet weather this spring and summer, Sir David Attenborough has warned.Wildlife charity Butterfly Conservation is launching its annual survey of the insects amid concerns that the wettest April to June on record will have hit their breeding season. Prolonged cold, wet weather delays the butterflies emerging, reduces their life-span and hampers mating and egg-laying, Butterfly Conservation said.
I was beginning to think it was another white mans disease
In Russia, an unprecedented heatwave has triggered about 557 wildfires and left the capital Moscow cloaked in heavy smog. Moscow's daily mortality rate has doubled to about 700, the city's health department head said, with city morgues almost full.
But the latest figures released by BP and den Elzen's agency in June show China will hit that figure in a matter of months, rather than over the next decade.
It threatens academic inquiry and excellence and assures mediocrity of content, conformity of thought.
The evidence suggests that investing in affordable energy in Africa will not only achieve great good in itself but will equip Africans better to cope with dangerous climate change if it happens: weather-related mortality correlates with poverty. A survey of more than two million Africans finds that climate change comes dead last of 16 concerns they were asked about.
This frost was in the time of the Maunder Minimum (1645-1715) and for periods on either side of it, many European rivers which are ice-free todayincluding the Thamesroutinely froze over, allowing ice skating and even for armies to march across them in some cases.
Presidential candidate Mitt Romney understands that achieving this goal requires unleashing American ingenuity, reducing excessive regulatory strangleholds on businesses and working capital, and allowing safe, proven technologies to tap and utilize our vast onshore and offshore deposits of oil, natural gas and other energy riches. He knows we can do all this without sacrificing important environmental values.
Scott's second mistake is to claim that the vote in the House was defined by a "partisan divide." While it's true that "just" 8 republicans voted for the bill, it's also true that 44 democrats17% of the House party caucusvoted against the bill. In fact, the bill's narrow passage is attributable primarily to all the procedural tricks employed by its sponsors, which my colleague Myron Ebell described here back in 2009. Opposition to the bill was healthily bipartisan, contrary to what Scott reports.
on Wednesday, September 21st, 2011 at 3:47 pm and is filed under Uncategorized.
The Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW) Chairmanship will change from one of the biggest supporters of Obama's climate change agenda (Senator Barbara Boxer ) to the biggest opponent of his policies (Senator James Inhofe ). On election night, Inhofe stated: "I am looking forward to taking back the environment committee"a role that, according to Environment & Energy Publishing (E&E;): "Already has Greens cringing."
The decision by Energy Minister Michael OBrien came just hours after the government announced it would shed the states goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 20 per cent by the end of the decade.
However, these "random waves in the vacuum" also occur for wavelengths that are long. And if there is a wave in the field \(\Phi(x)\) whose wavelength is long, it means that the value of the field at two nearby points that are (much) shorter than the wavelength will be very close to each other. If they're nonzero, they will have the same sign. So there's this correlation between the values of quantum fields in the vacuum. I can make the statement that the correlation exists even though I can't say (in advance) what the shape of the random wave exactly is; in fact, the point of the term "correlation" is that it is used in the statistical context when we can't predict the individual outcomes.
He stresses the importance of keeping land, air and water free of real pollution, particulates, heavy metals, pathogens and explains why CO2 should not be considered a pollutant:
* The relevant/interesting tables start at 11a. On a scale from 1 = "very inadequate" to 7 = "very adequate," scientists are asked to rank "data availability for climate change analysis." More respondents said "very inadequate" (1 or 2) than "very adequate" (6 or 7), with most responses ranging between 3 and 5. About 40% score it a 3 or less.
Citing adverse market conditions, BrightSource Energy, a wholesale solar power generator, announced yesterday morning that it would shelve a long-planned initial public offering of 6.9 million shares that the company had hoped would fetch 21 to $23 each. The canceled IPO is a blow to the companys backers, chief among them the American taxpayer. In April 2011, the Department of Energy awarded BrightSource a $160 million subsidy, from the same program that blew almost half a billion on Solyndra. They sure know how to pick em at the DOE!
Hansen, and the tiny handful of other climate scientists who realized the rogue equation came from electronic circuitry, had assumed it would work for all kinds of dynamical systems from electronic circuits to the Earths climate. But it doesnt.
flouting an essential international norm. The same goes for other global
More than a hundred countries now support a French proposal to create a "World Environment Organisation" at the upcoming 20th anniversary conference of the Rio Summit, France's ecology minister said on Tuesday.
Global coal use will continue to rise because global demand for electricity continues to rise, and that demand is being met largely with coal. In April, the International Energy Agency projected that global coal consumption will increase by about 12 million barrels of oil equivalent per day by 2017. If that occurs, coal use could surpass oil use in the share of global energy. That's a stunning development. The last time coal consumption in the U.S. was greater than oil consumption was 1949.
One can pull out as many cases of bad weather in the 30s, 40s and 50s as they can now. I still believe the 3 greatest examples of how bad a hurricane can get in relation to latitude are the 1938 hurricane with 186 mph wind gusts at Blue Hill Mass, the 1944 hurricane that destroyed the Atlantic City boardwalk, and Hurricane Donna which gave hurricane force winds to every state from Florida to Maine. The 1944 hurricane had winds 600 miles in diameter and stripped 50% of the screws from a recon plane into it.
smarter presidents understand that every aspect of the presidency flows from the
"Facebook has been caught secretly paying a top public relations firm to plant negative stories about Google in the US media."
There is much published credible evidence suggesting that some fossil fuel companies and other organizations broke the law by lying to the public about climate risk. We ask our government to investigate this evidence. Organizations that knowingly mislead the public about a clear and present dangerthereby robbing many innocent people of their lives and livelihoodsshould be held accountable for their actions. Our government's investigation into the deadly lies of the tobacco industry provides a clear precedent for this sort of investigation.
Elevated CO 2 consistently increased bulb size across all nitrogen and potassium concentrations, with initially larger bulbs yielding the greatest size of final bulbs. However, on a percentage basis, smaller bulbs were slightly more responsive to atmospheric CO 2 enrichment than were larger bulbs. Indeed, under optimal nitrogen and potassium fertilization, the 650-ppm increase in the air's CO 2 concentration increased the size of smaller and larger bulbs by about 18 and 14%, respectively. What it means
The 1199 alumni network extends far beyond New York. Its most distinguished member is Patrick Gaspard, currently the Obama administration's ambassador to South Africa. A former colleague of Cunningham's and one of Mayor Bill de Blasio's close friends, Gaspard earlier served as Obama's White House political director and as executive director of the Democratic National Committee. Many 1199 operatives also go on to work for the national SEIU, whose president, Andy Stern, was President Obama's most frequent White House visitor during his first 100 days in office.
They are building the so-called Summit Bridge that "makes them uniters, not dividers" (you can see that they like George W. Bush) and the police decided not to bother them in the forbidden area .
Reading the various pronouncements from the partygoers at the Durban climate-related Conference of Parties, I was struck by the many uses of the words sustainable development and sustainability. Its pretty confusing. Apparently, paying high long-term subsidies for uneconomic energy sources is sustainable ... who knew?
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In 15 years CO2 rose by about 30 ppmv, or 8.26%, which is a significant increase in a gas thats claimed to dominate global temperature. Yet the global temperature didnt notice and didnt develop a rising trend. It went up and down willy-nilly. Perhaps it was distracted by all the wild weather. Which wasnt caused by global warming cos there was none.
relax and take a few leisurely victory laps after the grueling campaign.
seems this expedition was more a BBC/Guardian/ABC CAGW exercise!
More and more likely that double CO2 means <2C: New study
He has told friends he needs 5 million a year to fund his lifestyle.
Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) delivers his speech to the Faith & Freedom Coalition Road to Majority Conference Kickoff Luncheon in Washington June 13, 2013.
Interestingly, this is happening at the same time as a period of economic weakness. So perhaps voters don't see the two goals in conflict. Of course, right after the 2007-2009 economic collapse, all groups saw a drop in their concern about the climate. Republicans are the only one to not yet return to their pre-recession levels.
Im sure their (seemingly endless) climate model circle jerk is very fulfilling, but they should be preparing for the floods which will be coming down the Colorado River in a few weeks.
(Figure 18.1) shows the history of temperatures prevailing in Central England from the mid 17thC to 1973. From about 1700 to around 1945, it is a one way story, a trend towards greater warmth, that was interrupted only by various shorter term fluctuations.
A minority of scientists question whether this means global warming has peaked and the earth has proved more resilient to greenhouse gases than predicted.
As George W. Bush begins his second term as President, there are many challenging tasks confronting his Administration. From complications arising from the War in Iraq and the ongoing War on Terror to the newfound effort at overhauling Social Security, there is clearly much on the table to occupy his attention. Regrettably, however, there appears to be at least one area that is not receiving much focus at least to this point and that is the issue of the environment. With Republicans securing historic gains in both houses of Congress, the opportunity to tackle some long-standing issues and help change the direction of the current environmental debate is one that is well within the President's grasp. The question is, will his Administration have the "idealism and courage," as he iterated in his inaugural speech, to take it?
The reason why we need to use 2 temperatures is that the surface has reportedly warmed about 3.5 times faster than the 0-700 meter ocean layer does, and radiative feedback will be controlled by changes in the temperature of the sea surface and the atmosphere that is convectively coupled to it.
Date: April 17, 2010 Time: 10:00 am Central DST
Crichton claims CNN estimated there would be 3.5 million future deaths when in reality there were less than 4,000.
The work is significant because the rate of global warming from 2000-2009 is lower than the 0.16C per decade trend seen since the late 1970s, a fact climate scientists have been keen to explain. Including the new sea surface temperatures, which push up global temperatures by 0.03C, the warming rate for the past 10 years is estimated at 0.08-0.16C. The new analysis of sea surface temperatures adjusts underestimates which arose from thechange from predominantly ship-based temperature measurements before 2000 to mostly buoy-based measurements afterwards.
Eric Holthaus blames damage from a cyclone on global warming
...climate models, while imperfect, work well in many respects (that is to say, they provide useful skill over and above simpler methods for making predictions).
If you look closely youll observe a few things: 1) There was a record high ice extent in April, 2) the ice indeed melted rapidly in May and June, but 3) the melting rate has slowed down considerably over the last 10 days, averaging only 59,000 sq km something the media forgets to mention.
Well. So much for the Warmest Ever! hype. Nature, all on its own, made the Arctic so much warmer than today that all sorts of tundra turned into forests. Then we started getting colder, with cyclical wetter / drier events. Not a lot of CO2 activity then.
Liberal progressives view these consistent defeats as examples of justice denied. Their consistent rejection by the voters is seen not as a rejection of their impatience or lofty ambitions, but as something more sinister. The voters were bamboozled by the Teflon Great Communicator, by Willie Horton ads, by triangulating good old boys, by corporate interests, and by blockheaded Texans backed by unscrupulous Mayberry Machiavellians. Something is the matter with Kansans if they don't back progressives; it must be devious politicians who divert middle- and working-class voters with the bread and circuses of phony social issues and unnecessary foreign wars. The solution: Organize new constituencies, particularly among the young and among ethnic minorities, through the internet (Daily Kos, MoveOn.org), local groups (ACORN), and D.C.-based interest groups (EMILY's List, Center for American Progress), and continue to press for progressive justice in bold colors, not pale pastels.
One example of the cold-weather-proves-global-warming argument comes from the The Los Angeles Times in a story published on Wednesday. That article focuses on the massive lake-effect snowstorm in Buffalo.
These salient observations strongly suggest that the cause of Svalbard glacial acceleration is geological in nature, quite possibly caused by sub-glacial heat flow from a heretofore-unrecognized convective system that has lain dormant under the Austfonna ice cap until reactivated by recent fault and volcanic activity. This type of activity is known to exist across the entire region.
johanna on April 26, 2015 at 2:11 pm
Obama's EPA Finalizes Latest Job-Killing Policies For 26 States Will Cost Taxpayers $1.6 Billion a Year & Thousands of Jobs:
The upper kilometre of the circumpolar Southern Ocean has warmed.
Already, Medicare and Medicaid patients have trouble finding doctors to treat them. Enjoy the cozy feeling of being "insured" via Obamacare. Let's hope that when you are sick, there is a doctor who will see you.
They found, "60 birds and mammals are known to have become extinct between 1900 and 1950," "actual extinctions remain low many species appear to have either an almost miraculous capacity for survival, or a guardian angel watching over their destiny," and not "a single known animal species could be properly declared as extinct, in spite of the massive reduction in area and fragmentation of their habitats in the past decades and centuries of intensive human activity." (Simon, Scarcity or Abundance, pp. 200-202)
Tom Tanton, Master Resource , 26 July 2011
The global warming legislation backed by President Obama would also drive jobs overseas, since it would impose a costly cap-and-trade carbon rationing scheme on American industry, while leaving foreign plants operated by multinational corporations unregulated. Thats one reason why many big companies with plants overseas are lobbying for the global-warming legislation , which would give them an advantage over competitors that make their products largely in America.
In reality, the United States has vast storehouses of petroleum. Hydraulic fracturing alone has unlocked billions of barrels of oil equivalent energy, created 1.7 million jobs, generated hundreds of billions of dollars in economic activity and government revenues, and made America the world's number one energy producing nation. Opening up areas that are now closed to leasing would build on this record.
>> Subject: RE: The Climatic Variability and Climate Change Initiative for
17c. The ability of regional climate models to to model temperature values for the next 10 years
"In a recent post at Balkinization, Sandy Levinson argues that the recent mostly government-funded rescue of the trapped Chilean miners proves the need for a large welfare state. He also issues a challenge to the Volokh Conspiracy:"
Insufficient response and retribution, regulators and politicians howled. They played no role in uncovering the fraud, but they are hounding bank officials and demanding $185 million in fines.
For hundreds of millions of the world's poor, however, coal is cleaner and more energy efficient than the alternative. This is one of the many inconvenient truths that environmentalists ignore in their dogged pursuit of a static global ecosystem.
Under Kyoto, 37 nations and the European Union agreed to cut greenhouse gases by a total 5.2 percent by 2012. Those countries are on target to meet their obligations, but some of them have balked about accepting more mandatory cuts after 2012.
Impact of Continental Mass Change on Rate-of-Rise of Sea Level (9 Jul 2013)
It's not his money, after all, so why wouldn't he sacrifice it? Why wouldn't he give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety?
The world exists, it has a time coordinate, and things are therefore inevitably happening, changing, and evolving. Whoever is scared by these things - by change in general - should commit suicide because death is the only way to stop the time for him or her.