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Environmentalists are fighting to defeat Washington state ballot initiative 732 (I-732), which imposes a $25 per metric ton of carbon dioxide tax on fossil fuels consumed in Washington. If the voters approve the initiative, Washington would become the first state in the nation to impose a tax on carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels.
"Clinton repeatedly called Kyoto a "work in progress,' and not ready to submit for Senate consideration until it included "meaningful participation by key developing countries,' notably China and India, but also South Korea, Brazil, and Mexico," said Competitive Enterprise Institute Senior Fellow Marlo Lewis. "Those countries still reject mandatory energy use restrictions, so the treaty still remains unworthy of submission to the Senate, according to Clinton's own criteria. That rejection, of course, is an admirable move by the developing nations which have chosen not to subject their citizens to a future of poverty and stagnation."
Washington, D.C. will be one of those cities, but as Bastasch reported, "Environmentalists and liberal groups are urging Obama to use the speech to reaffirm his commitment to fighting global warming. "President Obama should rank the battle against climate change as one of his top priorities in his State of the Union speech next week', said Center for Clean Air Policy president Ned Heime."
He has boasted that his organization is utterly transparent ? but an InterAcademy Council committee that took a close look at the IPCC last year concluded otherwise ? before recommending that Pachauri should step down.
Increased Atlantic hurricane landfalls from a new form of El Nino?
Summers is correct that FDRs pre-war New Deal economic strategy failed, but he is incorrect that world war boosted the economy. As Higgs shows in his book, the private sector did not recover until after the war. The war period wasjust another government manipulated period wheresome statistics may have looked good because young men were coerced into fighting and dying for the state.
The Australian APEC Study Center and The Frontiers of Freedom Institute will be holding an international conference, "Countdown to Kyoto," in Canberra, Australia, August 19-21.
Helen Chivers, Met Office forecaster, insisted the temperature map takes into account the influence of climate factors such as El Nino and La Nina ? five-yearly climatic patterns that affect the weather ? but admits this is only a ?start point? for a seasonal forecast. She said: ?The map shows probabilities of temperatures in months ahead compared to average temperatures over a 30-year period.
And a quick aside: there is no such thing as a ???global temperature??, knowing as fact that such a conjuredup parameter is based on just a few thousand weather stations spread across a tiny portion of the earths29% land, with none at the Poles, none in the oceans and some stations being treated as giving thetemperature of entire countries?! It is a truly meaningless parameter and the ???amount of warming?? hasrecently been expressed as being in the hundredths of one degree Celsius ??? you couldn??t make this up ifyou wanted to.Plus, the earth stations have been proven to have been tampered with so that coolingtrends have been fabricated into warming trends.
By all accounts, NRDC's political contributions have paid off in the form of access at the highest levels of executive environmental policymaking. Many NRDC officials were tapped by Obama to serve as political appointees at the EPA. At the Department of Energy, NRDC helps craft efficiency standards through direct "negotiated rulemakings" with the government. Most strikingly, the New York Times reported that three NRDC lobbyists wrote the "blueprint" for President Obama's marquee climate policy, the Clean Power Plan.
He confirmed that the firm gave Teri $9.5?million (6.1?million) between 2006 and 2009 for planting 8,000 hectares of jatropha, a type of bush, as part of a bio-diesel research project.
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"Now, you are going to listen to the insane, irrational, and creepy things I have to say. If you don't like them, and if you disagree with me, I am going to kill you. Only then can you be free and happy because I will kill you to save you, as you will just die anyway".
Figure 5: Heat content south of the polar Atlantic until June 2014 (Diagram from Climate Explorer)
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But averages deceive, Gholz says, and this study shows that rates of change are at times greater in the oceans than on landand as complex as the currents themselves.
Its lengthy, but gives the view of a person who was there on the ground, covering climate science and global warming in the late 1980s years before the AGW mania took off.
4. Global temperatures appear to be rising, irrespective of any human influence, as Earth continues to emerge from the Little Ice Age. If the temperature increase during the past 130 years reflects recovery from the Little Ice Age, it is not unreasonable to expect the temperature to rise another 2 to 2.5 degrees Celsius to a level comparable to that of the Medieval Warm Period about 800 years ago. The Holocene Epoch, as a whole, has been a remarkably stable period with few extremes of either rising or falling temperatures, as were common during Pleistocene glacial and interglacial periods. Nevertheless, the Holocene has been, and still is, a time of fluctuating climate.
How did CEI respond? CEI decided to fight this attack. We objected to the attorney general's offensive and unlawful action as being aimed at silencing CEI and intimidating its supporters. Using DC's anti-SLAPP law, which protects the public's right to engage in advocacy on issues of public interest from attacks by abusive legal actions, we asked the District of Columbia Superior Court to permanently dismiss Attorney General Walker's subpoena action, so that it could not be refiled, and to require him to reimburse CEI's expenses.
???Just at the beginning of the new solar grand minimum, ultimately proving that solar radiations drive the climate,?? Guimaraes points out.
I am a conservationist. I believe in wise stewardship in harvesting and conserving natural resources and in good management of the beauty of the landscape.
As Rockefeller University researcher Jesse Ausubel points out, it would take one thousand square miles of prime Iowa farmland to produce as much electricity from biomass as from a single nuclear power plant. And cellulosic ethanol is not the solution. In May 2006, John Deutch, a chemistry professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, concluded that producing enough ethanol from switch grass to displace 1 million barrels of oil per day would require that 25 million acres of landabout thirty-nine thousand square milesbe planted in switch grass. That is an area about the size of Kentucky. He concluded that we can produce ethanol from cellulosic biomass sufficient to displace 1-2 million barrels of oil per day in the next couple of decades, but not much more than that. Even cellulosic ethanol cannot provide enough liquid fuel for us to be able to stop importing foreign oil and being dependent on foreign governments.
On this blog, over the last couple of months, I have presented a pretty clear set of facts showing that, with the possible exception of some rural border regions beset by drug gangs, the vast majority of Arizona has experienced rapidly falling crime rates, in fact crime rates falling much faster than in the rest of the country. The crime rates of even our key border towns has remained flat.
The simple solution: stop burning food for fuel, drill for more oil, work on alternate energy system that actually might work, like thorium based nuclear power.
Hao et al . additionally found that the concentrations of a number of beneficial oils in the soybean seeds were increased by an average of 2.8% in response to the 135-ppm increase in the air's CO 2 concentration. However, they also discovered that the total protein concentration in the seeds was reduced by 3.3% in the CO 2 -enriched treatment. But because of the much greater CO 2 -induced increase in the soybean seed yields , or biomass production per unit of cultivated land, they report that the total "protein and oil yield per unit ground area increased by 24.5% and 32.0%, respectively."
Theaveragefor all 194 stations (including ones which are now defunct) is higher at 0.8 mm/year. This indicates that sea level rise rates are slowing this century, and are much lower than the wildly bogus claims of 3.1 mm from the University of Colorado and elsewhere.
Last week, scientists from the United States Commerce Departments National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said that a study of temperature readings for the contiguous 48 states over the last century showed there had been no significant change in average temperature over that period. Dr. (Phil) Jones said in a telephone interview today that his own results for the 48 states agreed with those findings.
Former Vice President Al Gore was at his peak when the film "An Inconvenient Truth" made its initial Hollywood splash. Faith in man-made global warming had never been more widespread, with liberal academics and media subjecting to ridicule any who dared question the "settled science." Only a fool could deny that elevated carbon-dioxide levels had melted ice caps and stranded polar bears on rapidly diminishing ice floes.
Guinness officials could not be reached for immediate verification of the record, as they are currently on assignment investigating a claim for "Worlds Biggest Asshole".
Peiser reported back that there had been no Wikipedia change. Solomon tried again, and again the correction disappeared.
Alpine Flora Dynamics in a Warming World (15 Mar 2011) Alpine flora appears to be more adaptive and responsive to climate change than generally believed ... Read More
Another $10 million of Australian taxpayer dollars that could be far better spent on schools and hospitals is heading down the gurgler in pointless research into the enormous health risks of changing weather patterns, reports The Canberra Times :
"Rather than fight the addition of games resembling slot machines in video lottery establishments across the state, the organization representing casinos in Deadwood may explore ways to expand and enhance their own games, the group's president said Wednesday."
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Third, Soon testified that, "There is no convincing evidence from each of the individual climate proxies to suggest that higher temperatures occurred in the 20th century than in the Medieval Warm Period. Nor is there any convincing evidence to suggest that either the rate of increase or the duration of warming during the 20th century were greater than in the Medieval Warm Period."
The shower of particles produced when Earth's atmosphere is struck by ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (the most energetic particles known in the universe). Source: Simon Swordy/University of Chicago, NASA
Variations in surface air temperature estimated from a variety of sources including temperature-sensitive tree growth, indices and written records and accounts of various kinds, largely from western Europe and eastern North America. Of note is a possible protracted global warming through the Medieval period, when surface temperatures may have averaged about 0.3 deg C warmer than the AD1900 reference. It was followed by a longer period of much colder conditions, loosely termed the Little Ice Age, when the estimated global mean temperature may have fallen about 0.5 deg C below the reference norm, reflecting global temperatures almost 1 deg C lower than the values attained during the middle of the current century, modified from J.T. Houghton et al, 1990.
However much power is lost, whether 81 gigawatts or something else, the electric grid is highly local. Even subtracting a small plant could have much larger effects for regions, such as blackouts. The older and less efficient coal plants that are slated for closure are often the crucial nodes that connect the hubs and spokes of the grid. If these "sensitive" interconnections are taken out, as the memo puts it, the power system becomes less stable, harder to manage and may not be able to meet peak-load demand or withstand unexpected disturbances.
I doubt that the warming effect is more than trivial, because it appears to be overwhelmed by other forces so often that there is no good correlation anywhere with co2 and temperature.
The issue here is not where you stand on any one of these particular issues, but who gets to decide them.
Computer models are not reliable because garbage in yields garbage out. Facts are often cherry-picked and can be tweaked to create the results that the computer modeler is looking for.
Lutz Pfannenstiel is a German player who was at one time a goalkeeper at the club. He is now a football talent scout.
Global Warming Brings An Avalanche Of Bitter Cold Winter Forecasts
He should consider himself the lucky one. There was no steaming hot pie on offer to the hundreds of rail passengers stuck on trains overnight and abandoned on railway platforms as virtually the entire rail system into Kent and Sussex shut down.
This Senate has limited itself to two hearings on LOST, both heavily stacked in favor of treaty proponents, with even Republican Senators, like Bob Corker (Tenn.) most loudly proclaiming an open mind and desire to learn only to dismiss opponents as they sought to answer his queries. This may be a more even platform than the U.S. will receive should the Senate ratify, but was unseemly nonetheless.
Hirsch, K., Kafka, V. and Todd, B. 2004. Using forest management techniques to alter forest fuels and reduce wildfire size: an exploratory analysis. In: Engstrom, R.T., Galley, K.E.M. and de Groot, W.J. (Eds.). Fire in Temperate, Boreal, and Montane Ecosystems. Tall Timber Research Station. Tallahassee, Florida, USA, pp. 175-184.
18.	"Use of fiscal incentives for climate policies " No, such policies are not socially responsible. Under such a system, single individuals will be able to enrich themselves at the expense of common wealth.
In 2009 Guy Wppelmann et al examined what effects vertical land movement had on the sea level data from tide gauges and published their results in the Geophysical Research Letters . The scientists evaluated globally 227 stations whose elevation was monitored by GPS. 160 of these stations were located at a distance maximum 15 km from the coast. By measuring the vertical movement of the tide gauges, they were able to apply a correction. From this they calculated a mean global sea level rise of 1.61 mm/year over the last century. Figure 1 shows that sea level rise has remained constant since 1940 no acceleration over the last 70 years!
Below this is understory of trees that usually don't grow higher than 15 feet or so along with young canopy trees and shrubs. Many have large leaves that may help absorb light in dim understory.
A scientific consensus should be based on scientific evidence. But a consensus is not itself the evidence. And with really well-established scientific theories, you never hear about consensus. No one talks about the consensus that the planets orbit the sun, that the hydrogen molecule is lighter than the oxygen molecule, that salt is sodium chloride, that light travels about 186,000 miles per second in a vacuum, that bacteria sometimes cause illness, or that blood carries oxygen to our organs. The very fact that we hear so much about a consensus on catastrophic, human-induced climate change is perhaps enough by itself to justify suspicion.
And in a broader vindication of democracy and capitalism, it is interesting that chavista nations in Latin America do very poorly in the Prosperity Index; Venezuela (seventy-fourth), Ecuador (seventy-first), and Bolivia (seventy-third) are ranked far lower than the more open democracies of Chile (thirty-sixth), Argentina (thirty-eighth), and Brazil (forty-first).
The reason for transportation's relative technological stagnation, compared with communication, is diminishing returns, which have blunted our ability to squeeze more out of technology. The fuel needed to fly at supersonic speeds is prohibitively expensive, as the Concorde proved. It has been said that if the car had experienced the sort of cost reductions that computing has found through Moore's Law-which says that the density of transistors on a chip doubles every two years-it would travel to the moon and back on a teaspoon of gasoline.
Yes - I want to see all my MP's restaurant receipts No - I don't want to see all my MP's restaurant receipts I want my MP's to pay for their own damned restaurant meals. pollcode.com free polls Related from the CTF: Reveal MP expenses.
The IPCC claims the entire forcing if atmospheric CO2 doubles is only 3.7 watts/m^2. Thus, by starting with a TSI radiation level too high by more than double the IPCCs own 3.7 watts/m^2, every fundamental heat balance calculation after that statement is invalid and misleading. (Yes, 1370 watts/m^2 is the reference TSI used in the EEBB class notes, but that TSI value was already 3 years out-of-date when written.)
Many factors played vital roles in this phenomenal advancement. However, as Julian Simon, Indur Goklany, Alex Epstein, and the authors of this article have documented, driving all this progress were fossil fuels that provided the energy for improvements in industry, transportation, housing, healthcare, and environmental quality, and for huge declines in climate-related deaths due to storms, droughts, heat, and cold. Modern civilization is undeniably high energy and 85% of the world's energy today is still coal, oil, and natural gas. These fuels support $70 trillion per year in global gross domestic product, to power virtually everything we make, grow, ship, drive, eat, and do. The rest of the world deserves nothing less.
PSOne final thought. IF we assume that the change in CO2 is due to the temperature change, as my five arguments support, this would indicate that the degassing from temperature changes is far from sufficient to cause the recent rise in CO2. I hold that the recent rise in CO2 is anthropogenic, but others have claimed that it is not from the burning of fossil fuels, that it is (at least in significant part) due to the temperature change.
Moreover, unhealthy US emissions plunged nearly 90% since 1970, even as coal use for electricity generation increased 170% and the newest coal-fired power plants reduce pollution by almost this amount, using "supercritical" technologies, while also reducing carbon dioxide emissions by 20% or more, according the EPA and US Energy Information Administration reports.
Expecting the worst from its perspective, Dow held crisis meetings during the late summer, eventually concocting a response plan that included a web presence and an extensive social media campaign. On September 12, Dow purchased the website America's Energy Advantage, which is now registered privately. It created Facebook and Twitter accounts in September and began posting in Facebook on October 12 and sent its first Tweet on October 18.
1) The oceans contain many orders of magnitude more energy than the atmosphere, are insulated from space by it, and emit energy into it via the latent heat of evaporation, radiation, convection and conduction . Changes in sea surface temperature (SST) precede related changes in lower tropospheric temperature (LT) by 3-6 months. Conversely, the oceans are opaque to the radiation emitted by the atmosphere and mechanisms for transferring energy via back radiation, convection or conduction down into its bulk from the atmosphere are extremely limited. In summary, the oceans drive the atmospheric temperature.
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Heritage analysis shows that lifting needless and duplicative restrictions on energy production will increase employment by an average of 700,000 jobs through 2035. Along with the jobs comes $3.7 trillion in additional gross domestic product (GDP) that translates to an additional $40,000 of income per family of four by 2035.
President Obama seems to get this, sort of: "Indeed, our failure to act responsibly at the federal level will only open the door to irresponsibility by others. And that includes, for example, the recent efforts in Arizona."
But their hot streak may soon run into some trouble. Why? Because they have provoked the most powerful special interest in congressional history: farmers. These are the same folks who once convinced Congress to pay them to grow nothing. Now they are holding hostage legislation to fight so-called climate change.
The sea surface temperature anomalies for the East Pacific Ocean (90S-90N, 180-80W) have not warmed in 30 years, Figure 11. That of course contradicts climate models, which show the East Pacific sea surface temperature anomalies should have warmed more than 0.4 deg C over that period if they were warmed by greenhouse gases.
The weather bureau is also indicating a warmer winter for much of the country, but says its not yet related to the possible El Nio.
Delingpole says a man called Crispin Tickell invented global warming . And no, he didnt make that moniker up. Its fairly understandable that being named Crispin Tickell might make a lad a mad enough to want to wreck the world. Just ask his brother Roland (I did make that part up).
Writer Susan Sontag at a 1982 town hall rally for the Polish Solidarity movement. The shocked liberal audience nearly booed her off the stage.
You cant make this stuff up. There is yet another USHCN cheat going on with the raw data which I just discovered.
For more than half a century, that countdown sequence has signaled the start of another daring plunge into the unknown what we've come to know as "The Right Stuff."
And so Roosevelt executed a conspicuous public pivot. In the summer of 1940just a week before the Republican convention!he fired his Secretary of War and Secretary of the Navy and replaced them with two Republicans: Henry Stimson (who had served as secretary of state under Herbert Hoover) and Frank Knox (the Republican nominee for vice-president in 1936). He began closing down liberal domestic programs like the famed Civilian Conservation Corps and reining in conspicuous liberal appointees like his trust-busting assistant attorney general Thurman Arnold. Roosevelt won in 1940, largely because (as he later explained) he had replaced "Dr. New Deal" with "Dr. Win the War."
Insightful commentary by Keith Hennessey on Obama's fuel economy rules
the expectations for added regional climate in-formation and skill achievable from initialized decadal predictions;
Many renowned scientists have criticized the computer models used by the global warming alarming industry, pointing out, for example, that the models omit many of the most important factors in our planet's complex climate system: clouds, water vapor, volcanoes, ocean circulation, solar activity, and more.
"The East Coast stink bug epidemic has prompted the Environmental Protection Agency today to issue an emergency ruling allowing farms of apples, cherries, pears, and peaches to use two lethal insecticides. But it may be too late, since the stink bug has been seen on fruit in Virginia."
Stolen Heartland Documents: DeSmog Keeps BlowingBy Marlo Lewis
Quoting once again the words of Gabay et al ., "these findings indicate that octocorals may possess certain protective mechanisms against rising levels of p CO 2 ," and in this regard they suggest that "their fleshy tissues act as a barrier, maintaining a stable internal environment and avoiding the adverse effects of the ambient elevated p CO 2 ," in line with the similar thinking of Rodolfo-Metalpa et al . (2011), while noting that "this suggestion is further supported by our finding that the ultrastructural features of O. macroscipulata sclerites are not affected by increased ambient seawater acidity." And so it is that they ultimately conclude that "octocorals might be able to acclimate and withstand rising levels of ocean acidification, even under conditions that are far beyond what is expected to occur by the end of the present century (pH 7.9)." References
First sin, then treason, and finally, reckless idiocy.