Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
In an open joint letter released today, representatives from 18 conservative, free market, consumer, and taxpayer organizations explain that allowing the federal government to institutionalize the assumptions of global warming alarmism with more officials, reports, and committees will only create the institutional framework and political incentives for the kind of energy rationing called for by the Kyoto Protocol. President Bush has publicly disavowed the global warming treaty and Kyoto-style policies and stressed the damaging economic impact such a path would inflict on the United States with no offsetting benefits.
Compare the model predictions to the weather balloon measurements below. The graphs are not remotely the same. The models are wrong. The Hot Spot is missing. The net effect of the warming due to man-made CO 2 has been exaggerated.
In the Year of our Lord Two Thousand and Twenty, more than two decades will have elapsed without so much as a suspicion of warmer weather throughout the Empire.
That does not mean that passage of any bill by Congress will result in a surge of popular support. Health care costs are going to rise over the next several years no matter what.
Because water vapor and clouds are responsible for 6585 percent of the radiative properties of the troposphere, I should have asked Ms. Macfarlane whether water vapor also is a "pollutant"; that discussion would have been amusing. Ocean evaporation certainly is a natural process, but so are volcanic eruptions, and no one denies that the massive amounts of particulates and toxins emitted by volcanoes are pollutants. In contrast to "carbon" or "carbon pollution," the phrase "greenhouse gases" has the virtue of scientific accuracy without, again, assuming the answer to the underlying policy question.
Scuba divers know that reef creatures already experience acidic conditions near CO2 vents in the ocean floor. These vents bubble CO2 gas amidst coral reefs and grassy ocean pastures in millions of locations. Fish and reefs appear to be doing quite well near these CO2 vents.
Rainfall events like the type weve seen in Queensland are becoming more likely as the earth warms.
Behavior Of The US Government Is "Fully Consistent" With That Of The Soviet Union
The data revealed both long- and short-term temperature fluctuations; and it was noted that during warm periods the temperature was "about 2C warmer than at present." Furthermore, the temperature fluctuations were found to be "closely related" to changes in solar irradiation. What it means
There was a big conference in Melbourne this week titled Greenhouse 2005: Action on Climate Change . I didnt see much coverage in the national media but The Age ran a feature every day on the perils of climate change to coincide with the event, click here , here and here (and there was more!).
Washington, May 4, 2011 ? Andrew Steer, Special Envoy for Climate Change, World Bank Group today issued the following statement on the new report by the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Program, the scientific arm of the eight-nation Arctic Council.
This is a questionable path. Even as, naturally, growth and hardship can be linked to environmental factors, it's not the same thing as to say that environmental factors should be regarded as exclusive data in their own right. Further, changing the calculation methods is difficult for several reasons. You need an international consensus, otherwise comparisons will be meaningless. GDP figures are used to calculate changes over time. If you mess with it, you will have to somehow compensate against historical figures.
Is this the best solution? Certainly, tropical rainforests are a valuable ecological entity. "They provide erosion and flood control, timber and forest products, medicines, wood fuel, outdoor `laboratories' for scientific research, and of course, a habitat for millions of plant and animal species. When developing these areas, it is important to formulate a biodiversity strategy with rational rules " (Dartmouth Review, p.8) But that does not mean all-out preservation is the only answer.
In 1980, science writer Ron Bailey points out, the U.S. government thought we might have as many as 1,000 nuclear reactors up and running in the United States by now, instead of the 104 aging plants we do have. Our nuclearphobia led us to build hundreds of coal- and gas-fired power plants instead.
Using the near surface air temperature changes as the climate metric to assess T raises the research questions listed below:
Last is Figure 4. It compares the modeled and observed temperature differences between the sea surface temperatures and marine air temperatures, where the marine air temperatures are subtracted from the sea surface temperatures. The observed temperature difference (SST Minus MAT) averages about 2.9 deg C, and the difference has been increasing. But the modeled difference averages about 1.25 deg C and has been decreasing.
11."Mann et al., 2005". The rev. tries to disprove our conclusions citing Mann et al., 2005. That study nicely demonstrates a successful reconstruction of a simulated climate history from sufficiently many pseudoproxies (104, representing the AD 1780 network), which obviously cannot contain any nonsense predictors and which has never been questioned by us. Our focus was on the AD 1400 network with 22 real proxies.
Obama officials are already trying to hide behind Mass v. EPA, claiming 'the Court made us do it.' This excuse won't wash. President Obama can protect consumers, jobs, and the economy from EPA regulatory excess any time he wants just by introducing stand-alone legislation to exclude carbon dioxide from regulation under PSD, NAAQS, etc.
Heres the simplest interpretation a small cadre of well paid scientists make ambitious, inept climate models that billions of dollars of decisions relies on.
Also, occupants of two larger, heavier cars crashing together have more protection than they would have in two smaller, lighter cars in the same type of crash.
the cute part automatically. Calvin and Hobbes is widely considered the best comic ever, but the few times it featured the parents doing the main action, it
A prior paper also published by lead author Justin Sheffield examined the period from 1950-2000 and found, " Globally, the mid-1950s showed the highest drought activity and the mid-1970s to mid-1980s the lowest activity."
With regards to the planetary energy balance equation 12.1:
Fact-free he began and fact-free he remains.
In the abstract the IPCC deserves it due. There has never been a large public policy issue as dependent on thorough science as climate change. The effort to get to the bottom of climate change is perhaps the largest scientific inquiry in human history. It requires the coordination of thousands of specialists, the development of whole new scientific techniques, and the refinement of elaborate computer models that need weeks to run on the most powerful supercomputers. Even discounting for the inherent weaknesses of computer models for any subject, this kind of sustained effort is likely to generate valuable and practical knowledge in the fullness of time. Producing coherent reports at regular intervals that combine all this work is an extraordinary feat.
Harumph. So weve got a downtrend. We take a flat step up on dropping to a single thermometer. Then a final rise in the end. But whats in that rise? A large quantity of missing data:
Climate science defies this concept by consistently adjusting older temperatures downwards and recent temperatures upwards. The assumption is almost always that older temperatures are defective because they were too high, and newer temperatures are the opposite.
How did the attorney general respond? In an apparent attempt to avoid being subject to the anti-SLAPP law, Attorney General Walker withdrew only the D.C. subpoena, leaving the original U.S. Virgin Islands subpoena active. He also made it clear that he might reinstate the D.C. subpoena at any point in the future if he wanted to. In short, he can continue his intimidation campaign against us and others who oppose his policy views. The withdrawal only strengthens our claim that the subpoena was illegal from the start. Because of the looming threat of the existing U.S. Virgin Islands subpoena, we have continued to push for relief under the Anti-SLAPP Act. On June 28, we will have our first day in court.
All this and hippie-mocking goodness galore in your July 4th weekend roundupalooza.
Many defense technologies satellites, rockets and ballistic missiles, sophisticated guidance systems and delivery vehicles as well as remote computer command and control overlap with space technologies (it's not for nothing that the government agency overseeing the ULA launch is the Air Force). Indeed, many defense technologies grew out of the space program itself.
Kultti et al. has just been published in Holocene, showing higher medieval treeelines in northern Finland (27 deg E). This is consistent with the more northerly distribution of oak in medieval Finland reported in Hulden discussed here and adds to the growing inventory of articles both demonstrating higher medieval treelines and using this to estimate MWP temperatures locally higher than at present, some of which I??ve posted about from time to time Medieval Category . These ???local?? results from treelines are not limited to the north Atlantic and Greenland, but extend to the Sierra Nevadas (117 W), Sweden, Finland, Polar Urals (65 E) and a Siberian transect (90-100E). I??ll add a comment on Chinese proxies of this type. Kultti et al. also consider information from other proxies and report similar results for all proxies EXCEPT the tree ring width chronology of Helama et al . Here are some extended quotes.
An alternative is theoretical analysis from first principles. This is something which in my own small limited way I am trying to do, as are others. Another way is to recognise that nature works by rigid adherence to natural law and is thus repeatable. This means that we can look back through the historical record for similar situations. If we can find such situations then the response that occurred then is a good indicator of what might happen in our immediate future. This was exactly the basis for the original carbon dioxide driven global warming claims. Vostock Ice core data showed carbon dioxide levels and temperature rising and falling together. Cause and effect was claimed, proof that rising carbon dioxide caused temperatures to increase. Since then, more accurate dating has shown temperature rises or falls 800 years before carbon dioxide responds. This negates the original claims since it shows that rising temperature causes rising carbon dioxide not vice versa.
Iain Murray: The President's pushing of trade agreements is in many ways welcome, as protectionism now would be a disaster for America. However, it is telling that he calls neither of the transoceanic agreements a Free Trade agreement. That's because they won't be. They will be so weighed down with agreed restrictions and regulations designed to protect special interests and national champions that the vast and undoubted benefits of genuine free trade will not accrue to all Americans and other trading partners. That is a hugely wasted opportunity.
At some point Dr. Mann crossed the line from scientist solely in pursuit of truth to activist with a book to sell. The books title is illuminating: The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines. Activists go to war, scientists do not. Through Twitter, he links to liberal websites touting President Obamas electoral prospects as evidence of his perceived persecution. And in one of the Climategate II emails he wrote he gave up on another scientist because she was not firmly committed enough to the cause. But Dr. Manns cause, whether it be selling books, preserving his professional reputation, or obtaining more government funding, is not purely science. And the Virginia Supreme Court shouldnt make us just trust him.
The close correspondence between the Sphagnum ?? 13 C values of Sharma et al . and the lake level data of Baedke and Thompson bears strong witness to the reality of the millennial-scale oscillation of earth's climate that has brought the world alternating multi-century periods of relative cold and warmth, which in the Great Lakes region of North America are closely associated with concomitant relative wet and dry conditions, respectively.?? It is our belief that this climatic oscillation is also responsible for the development of the Modern Warm Period, which would have occurred when it did even if man had never appeared on the scene. Reference
More importantly, we haven't gotten the massive warming so long predicted by the computer models. If James Hansen had been correct in his 1988 predictions to congress, the planet would already some 2 degrees warmer today than it is. Nor did the computer models predict the Pacific Ocean's 2008 cold phase shift which is likely to cool the planet for the next 30 years. Let's wait for the current La Nina to fade and see what sort of "warming" we face.
By Daren Bakst, American Thinker, Aug 11, 2015
It says the amount by which climate scientists multiply the direct warming from, say, CO2 to allow for temperature feedbacks changes to the climate because it has warmed that make it warm still further is equal to the reciprocal of 1 minus a third of the sum of all the feedbacks.
Mary Grabar, PhD English U of Georgia, makes the connection with the Terrorist, now pedagogue promoting common core and other socialist programs in the schools, Bill Ayers who was a terrorist with the weathermen but then got a respectable academic job like so many of the creepy anarachists.
Keep in mind that the model mean, according to the IPCC, represents the anthropogenically forced component of the climate models during the period of 1981 to 2011. Unfortunately for the models and the IPCC, there is no evidence of anthropogenic forcing in the East Pacific Sea Surface Temperature data (90S-90N, 180-80W), Figure 20, or in the Sea Surface Temperature data for the Rest Of The World (90S-90N-80W-180), Figure 21.
The global warmistsmostly drawn from the leftmay or may not be right about global warming. As they say in their recent bull on Climate Assessment, Climate change, once considered an issue for the distant future, has moved firmly into the present. Well, maybe so, but there is still little we can do to alleviate global warming. America is, mostly for economic reasons, meeting the goals of the Kyoto Protocol without actually having signed the treaty. In fact, we were the first major industrialized nation to do so back in 2012. The problem of global warming resides not with us but with other nations. Led by China, the poorer countries of the world are paying no attention to the Kyoto nonsense, and one should not expect them to. Why should a poor country impede its growing standard of living for the grandiose and highly speculative goal of climate control?
In E&E News today Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) is profiled , and he says this: "What if I took something you agree with, that this country had a lot of resources that need to be explored and extracted, and every barrel of oil that we can find off South Carolina with South Carolinas permission, and natural gas deposits, make us more energy independent? he added. What if you married those two things up? And took some of the revenue from oil and gas exploration and put it toward reducing our carbon dependency? I think thats a deal that a lot of people would go for. You dont have to be a true believer of drilling offshore or that climate change is real. Youve just got to be willing to give and take." Can we "reduce our carbon dependency" via extracting "every barrel of oil that we can find"? Does this make sense?
African dust plays a key role in cloud formation, hurricanes and other global climate phenomena but models cant characterize it well.
CEOs across the economy are feeling the squeeze of higher power prices, and these prices likely will rise even more if the U.S. government enacts a law to control domestic greenhouse gas emissions. However, high power prices and a push toward power sources that release fewer such emissions mean opportunity for one sector of the economy:nuclear power. But so far, despite perhaps the best environment ever in which to finance deals of all kinds, investment banks, private equity firms, shareholders and other sources of capital aren't interested. The risks of investing in new nuclear power projects, expected to cost as much as $5 billion each, outweigh the potential rewards.
The most prominent cycles that can be detected in the global surface temperature records have periods of about 9.1 year, 10-11 years, about 20 year and about 60 years. The 9.1 year cycle appears to be linked to a Soli/Lunar tidal cycles, as I also show in the paper, while the other three cycles appear to be solar/planetary cycles ultimately related to the orbits of Jupiter and Saturn. Other cycles, at all time scales, are present but ignored in the present paper.
2. Determining what the connection is between Arctic sea ice loss and mid-latitude weather, and the consequential regional effects;
And Figure 13 presents the Hovmollers of sea surface temperature anomalies. Unfortunately, the Hovmoller of sea surface temperature anomalies is delayed a few weeksthus the purplish line in 2014. But as weve seen in the comparison graphs in Figure 2, the sea surface temperature anomalies of the NINO3.4 region in 2014 are well behind those of 1982, and the sea surface temperature anomalies this year in the NINO1+2 region are in line with those in 1982. As youll note in the Hovmoller for this year, it didnt take long for the La Nia conditions in the eastern equatorial Pacific to disappear. The El Nio conditions also disappeared as quickly.
Escalation of violence is a two-way street. Why is the homeowner, the innocent party, the one who is made legally responsible for such escalation? Why isn't it the agent of the state who is responsible for any such escalation? And while a homeowner may have plenty of opportunities to protest illegal entry after the fact (though this isdebatablein real life) I would argue that the police officer had plenty of opportunities before the fact to get a freaking warrant.
For the past 5 years (60 months), there is a statistically significant global cooling in all datasets.
The net effect of the joint cooling and warming adjustments appears to be two-fold in support of the UN/IPCC political science political "science" agenda.
And, over the last decade, lavishly supported by federal tax policy and handouts guided to it by the powerful Massachusetts Congressional delegation led by Markey, Dow expanded its "green" product line. It began turning out advanced insulation products, diesel engine filters and lithium-ion batteries.
So what does this mean for the IPCC? The IPCC derives its authority from the UN, which can certainly proceed without financial support from the U.S., should the U.S. Senate actually vote in support of the House resolution. However, this would open the door for other countries to delegitimize the IPCC by withdrawing funding or proceeding with their own assessments. The current framing of the climate change problem and its solution by the UNFCCC/IPCC as irreducibly global is arguably outdated and too narrow.
All that rain and all those unseeded acres are having a severe effect on production, White said.
They found that it took just two generations of tropical damsel fish, common on the Great Barrier Reef, to adapt when they were reared from birth in tanks of warm water.
White House Plans to Push Global Warming Policy, GOP Vows Fight:
In many ways, this guy is my favorite. No video embeds, no technical details. Just he looks at it and rants that the folks are just looking way too plastic. Wonder how many pasty white folks of means neighborhoods hes been in? ;-)
Without more power, Silicon Valley may find itself a silicon desert.
Biomass burning kills 250,000 people a year
EL NIO EVOLUTION COMPARISONS FOR NINO REGION SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE ANOMALIES
Most critically, EPA does not apply its judgment to the core scientific issueclimate sensitivity. If climate sensitivity is low, as investigations by Dr. Richard Linden (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Dr. William Gray (Colorado State University), and Dr. Roy Spencer (University of Alabama Huntsville) suggest, then 21st century warming is likely to be below the low-end (1.8 C) IPCC "best estimate," and endangerment of public health and welfare is not "reasonably anticipated."
But we needn't look only at the coal numbers. Last year, according to the BP report, global oil use grew by about 900,000 barrels per day and natural-gas use by about 700,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day. Thus, in one year, global hydrocarbon consumption increased by about 3.6 million barrels of oil equivalent per day. Let's compare that to the contribution of all global wind energy, which provided roughly 2.9 million barrels of oil equivalent per day in 2013, and all global solar, which contributed about 600,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day.
Intrigued by old naval guns, I asked how hed gotten them, and he said hed found them in the Crimea. I asked How does one do that? Did you wander around the Crimea going I say, you wouldnt happen to have seen one of Lord Nelsons cannons, would you, he seems to have mislaid it .
Motes andbeams come to mind fromLuke 6:41-42 :
In the context of the furor surrounding the 9/11 commission, S. Fred Singer, President of the Science and Environmental Policy Project and Emeritus Professor of Environmental Science at the University of Virginia, pointed out in a letter to the Wall Street Journal (Apr. 13) that the Clinton-Gore administration did not regard terrorism as important as the global warming issue.
Always more to come, Ive been doing some science in the spaces in between the places, and I have until Monday to write it up life goes on.
Describing it as policy based evidence, Peter Lilley argues the government can no longer rely on it to justify expenditure of many billions of pounds and calls for a return return instead to evidence based policies.
Heartland Institute Submits Comments to EPA Over Coal-Plant Emission Rules
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Senior Fellow Christopher Horner on why UVA should respect Cuccinelli's requests for documents.
Increased Number Think Global Warming Is "Exaggerated"
Plus, according to Florida State University??s Ryan Maue, Accumulated Cyclone Energy has hit a 30 year low . The Global Warming linkage simply isn??t there.
For those who havent seen it, heres a link to US weatherman John Colemans magisterial demolition of the Great AGW Scam. I particularly recommend part 4 because thats the one with all the meat. It shows how temperature readings have been manipulated at the two key climate data centres in the United States the NASA Goddard Science and Space Institute at Columbia University in New York and the NOAA National Climate Data Center in Ashville, North Carolina. (Hat tip: Platosays )
the present version of the series may change as soon as new results come available from the efforts of KNMI to homogenize the temperature series of De Bilt on a daily base, taking into account weather-dependent corrections.
While it's not clear whether litmus test politics explains the continued criticism of LNG imports by the troika of Markey, Waxman and Wyden, it explains some of it. Why else would Markey remain so belligerent about expanding natural gas exploration when his own state actually imports almost half of its natural gas suppliesnot from the Marcellus Shale formation in Pennsylvania, which is experiencing an export boom, but from Yemen.
Segment 1 covers the basic issue of the bad science behind the global warming frenzy. We explain the hypothesis of your carbon footprint, the result of the co2 that enters the atmosphere as a result of burning of fossil fuels to support your lifestyle. We show how that theory has failed to verify and proven wrong.