Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
But talus area is the more critical variable, and the average summer temperature is highly questionable. Larger talus areas sustain more pika territories, and provide protection for dispersing young looking for vacancies. With more adjacent territories, there are more young pika who can immediately occupy any abandoned territory. In contrast the smallest talus areas, often sustaining just a single territory, are islands that lack connectivity to other territories. Vacant territories must wait to be randomly colonized by dispersing young from some distance talus. As the distance between isolated territories increases it is less likely that randomly dispersing young will recolonize a vacated territory. But the degree of connectivity was also never considered in Stewarts model. As seen in his diagram below (I added the red lines for reference), the vacancies can be readily explained just by the talus area and random dispersal.
The Durban gathering is another effort to combat global warming by reducing carbon consumption, an approach that could dampen economic activity just when there is risk of a new European recession.
You can see in the JAXA graph above that the 2007 divergence occurred in late July after Arctic insolation was already shutting down, essentially nullifying the Arctic albedo feedback argument. The Arctic minimum comes too late in the summer to have a significant impact on the radiation budget, due to the very low angle sun at that time. In fact, CERES has measured that during September 2008, the Arctic net radiation balance was strongly negative. The open water loses heat to the atmosphere (because it is not insulated by ice) meaning that declining ice cover is probably a negative feedback, not a positive one. NASA??s Earth Observatory explains :
"Our review of the program at the outset of the McGreevey administration has led me to conclude that the program has failed," said Campbell in an August 13 letter to the U.S. EPA. "The program's ostensible clean air benefits were limited by the failure to include safeguards to ensure that the program would in fact reduce emissions."
There also exist serious doubts whether the expedition can get to the North Pole at all. See Steve Goddard's text . After 40 days, they have only made 240 kilometers. April 30th is the last day to recover the people safely from the North Pole region so they have roughly 20 days for the remaining 685.61 kilometers (as of today: yes, this figure actually increased by 2 km from Friday). As the summer is approaching, the areas with missing ice should start to spread.
All in all, the notion of ?post-normal science? seems like a complete contradiction in terms or a perversion of the standard definition of science as commonly understood. It appears to be an elaborate and dishonest attempt to pass off the preferences of a single group as some kind of pseudo-science. There?s a much simpler term for this dishonest phrase: politics.
The reason: "USAID officials said that a 41 percent surge in prices for wheat, corn,
The UN economists clearly see a new "indirect" green-tax regime as a way around the acrimonious international impasse and the tardy response in meeting national pledges. The taxes they suggest include new carbon levies, international air fare taxes, auctioning the right to pollute and cross-border financial deals, as well as taxes on government grants and loans, each potentially raising US$10 billion annually.
NOAA and the other ground based data centers would have more credibility if one of the changes resulting in a reduction of the warming trend and not an exaggeration which has been the case each time.
The University of Colorado used to have this error map on their sea level web site, which showed that most of their fake 3 mm/year sea level rise is due to error.
Hans Labohm is an economist and co-author of Man-Made Global Warming: Unravelling a Dogma. He is a former professor at the Dutch Institute of International Relations and guest teacher at the Netherlands Institute for Defense Studies. He has been an IPCC reviewer and served in many international roles, including Deputy Permanent Representative of the Netherlands to the OECD.
The Buddhas of Bamiyan were blown up by the Taliban in 2001. In 2014, Greenpeace activists damaged the Nazca Lines. Greenpeace has often broken the law, but their actions have always been directed against those who harm the environment. They appealed to a moral authority higher than the legal ones. Nazca, however, was wanton vandalism. And it was not a solo action. Twenty people trampled over ancient heritage. The Greenpeace media team happily beamed pictures across the world. And when it emerged that the world was not amused, Greenpeace' response was closer to damage control and cover-up than remorse and cooperation with the Peru government.
Last night climatologist Gareth Jones tweeted that there had been two dozen papers on the pause this year. In response, I wondered how many would have been published if David Whitehouse hadn't have written his groundbreaking report on the subject. This prompted Doug McNeall to comment "About two dozen", a sentiment that was endorsed by Gavin Schmidt.
Britain's position is at odds with the previous Conservative government's pledge to phase out coal power by 2025. Various exemptions in EU's existing pollution requirement currently enable more than half of Europe's coal power plants to exceed limits for various pollutants. Poland and the Czech Republic rely heavily on coal for their electricity, while Finland, Greece, and the UK all have other types of plants covered by EU emissions directives. Germany has also shown growing support for coal, with its Economy Minister Sigmar Gabriel telling attendees at an energy conference in Berlin the country would continue using brown coal for electric power production through at least 2040.
The number of stations gives a clue in Chart 2 .
Of course, I have to say--as a warm weather person, I think we've had a bit too much planet healing lately!
power has served as a foundation for a stable and relatively peaceful and
Indeed, Mann?s recent New York Times op-ed begins with a blanket defamation of anyone who has ever questioned his global warming orthodoxy, people he describes as a ?a fringe minority? which ?clings to an irrational rejection of well-established science,? promoting a ?virulent strain of anti-science.?
Its an anti-science position. The surveys he quotes are ones like Anderegg , and Doran and Zimmerman . The latter was a two minute survey sent to 10,257 scientists, but the figure of 97% of climate scientists only came from 75 of those people. Comments from scientists outside the 75 are scathing at times. The former study (Anderegg) was a blacklist of scientists, is useless for understanding feedbacks, though works as a proxy for government funding: it shows that more funding of one side of the debate means more papers published from that point of view. To complete the trifecta of trivia, he also quotes Oreskes , whose work was equivalent to a google search on words. Again, confused researchers study proxies for grants instead of proxies for temperature.
Research of Hundreds More Scientists Shows the Natural 1,500-Year Climate Cycle
None of these things are consistent with hottest year ever. NASA has known for decades that satellite data is more accurate, and their current willful ignorance of their own satellite temperatures, indicates that they are engaged in propaganda, not science.
This entire report assumes global warming to exist, assumes it is man-made, and assumes its future levels are as large or larger than those projected in the last IPCC report. The first four or five pages merely restate this finding with no new evidence. The majority of the report then takes this assumption, cranks it through various models, and generates scary potential scenarios about the US and it would be like if temperatures really rose 11F over the next century.
A leading group of economists advising UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called for a raft of new green taxes to raise the US$100 billion a year committed by the 110 participant nations who signed December's Copenhagen Accord. The call won't come as music to the ears of taxpayers globally and particularly Canadian taxpayers.
Most people would invariably say yes if you ask whether they want a more prosperous life for themselves and their families. But ask them about the consequences of rising prosperity for society as a whole, and doubts will quickly start to creep in.
But Obamas EPA will propose endangerment on both health and welfare grounds. This inevitably will encourage litigation to establish primary as well as secondary NAAQS for GHGs, with all the economic peril that entails.
In their comprehensive analysis of the Kyoto Protocol and climate policy, Richard B. Stewart and Jonathan B. Wiener examine the current impasse in climate policy and the potential steps nations can take to reduce greenhouse gases. They summarize the current state of information regarding the extent of global warming that would be caused by increasing uncontrolled greenhouse gas emissions. They explain why participation by all major greenhouse gas-emitting countries is essential to curb future greenhouse gas emissions and also note the significant obstacles to obtaining such participation.
This document proposes regulations to implement Executive Order13658, Establishing a Minimum Wage for Contractors, which was signed by President Barack Obama on February 12, 2014.
Regarding metrics used in the validation step in the reconstruction exercise, two issues have been raised (McIntyre and McKitrick 2003, 2005a,b). One is that the choice of significance level for the reduction of error (RE) validation statistic is not appropriate. The other is that different statistics, specifically the coefficient of efficiency (CE) and the squared correlation (r2), should have been used (the various validation statistics are discussed in Chapter 9). Some of these criticisms are more relevant than others, but taken together, they are an important aspect of a more general finding of this committee, which is that uncertainties of the published reconstructions have been underestimated. Methods for evaluation of uncertainties are discussed in Chapter 9.
Figure 2. Anchorage (urban) and Matanuska (rural) temperature stations.
North Africa : Ground Zero For Global Warming
The draft plan is being overseen by Harris Sherman, undersecretary of agriculture for natural resources and the environment. Sherman insists that the planning rule takes timber sales into consideration, but his background and close ties to environmental groups raise serious questions. Before joining the Obama administration, he served as Director of Colorado's Department of Natural Resources, where he was instrumental in drafting the state's controversial roadless rule. Furthermore, according to his bio on the Department of Agriculture's website, he has worked for years on land conservation issues with such groups as the Nature Conservancy, Colorado Open Lands, and the Trust for Public Lands.
What is striking about the trailer is that, even in just a few moments, it exposes the absurd thinking behind cynicism towards development and its possibilities, and its disregard for the abilities and lives of those living in the developing world. These problems are much bigger problems than scarcity. In fact, they actively cause scarcity, and the problems associated with it.
It's also worth noting that most computer climate models predict that, once warming from greenhouse gas emissions starts, it continues at a constant rate, not an accelerating rate.
international leadership, the working level implementation of the sanctions has
In order to demonstrate that the increase in temperatures since the mid 1950s is not due to random fluctuations, it is necessary to do valid statistical analysis of the temperatures. The BEST team has not done such.
In rural coastal areas, Goodbred adds, one solution might be to return to the kind of low, flexible embankments that people in this region built before the 1960s. Locals could raise them in the dry season to keep salty water away, and cut them down in the wet season to allow sediment in. Tidal water must, from time to time, be allowed to flush embanked land, he says, to deposit sediment and thus prevent the polders from sinking over the long term. Homes in these polders, he notes, tend to be on land that sits half a metre or more above the polder basins, so would be protected from the influx.
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At the very least, Congress should take the time to review the most onerous rules. Over-delegation allows Congress to shift blame to the agencies for excessive or unpopular regulations. But the people's elected representatives should perform their rightful duty and approve all new laws, not just 285. In this age of trillions, we cannot afford the regulatory state as it now stands. It is a hidden trillion-dollar tax on consumers, on top of what they already pay. A deregulatory stimulus is in order, the sooner the better. In the game of government poker, perhaps it is time to fold.
Two British-born Pakistanis were among eight gunmen seized by Indian commandos who stormed buildings to free hostages, Vilasrao Deshmukh, the chief minister of Mumbai, reportedly said.
"Any significant changes in the abundance, distribution, or existence of sea ice will have effects on the number and behavior of these animals and their prey," according to FWS. "This loss of habitat puts polar bears at risk of becoming endangered in the foreseeable future, the standard established by the ESA for designating a threatened species."
THE EAST PACIFIC SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE DATA DOES NOT AGREE WITH THE ASSUMPTION OF GREENHOUSE GAS-DRIVEN GLOBAL WARMING
Recent attempts to openly attack prominent scientists have crossed a line, raising this destruction to new heights, making real scientists think twice about working on climate. The attacks are carried out with a particularly pungent red herring that makes it nearly impossible to keep the hounds from distraction.
His string of failed predictions were supported by the British Met offices sixty six million dollar (AU) computer modeling. They both incorrectly predicted 2009 would be one of the five warmest years ever. The world has just experienced two of the coldest and snowiest winters in decades.
I dont think theres any cause for alarm as far as fall blizzards of that severity go, said Laura Edwards, a climate field specialist at SDSUs Aberdeen Extension office.
Mars, too, appears to be enjoying more mild and balmy temperatures.
The Central Great Plains drought during May-August of 2012 resulted mostly from natural variations in weather, the report said.
No fixed plans have been formulated for how Britain can meet decarbonisation targets, either by Miliband when he pushed through the Climate Change Act as Energy Secretary, or by the current Government. And I am quite sure that Miliband has no such plans now either. Instead, DECC have laid out a number of scenarios, a sort of mix and match of what may be achievable as technology and economics change.
This claim is already hotly disputed. US climate expert Professor Judith Curry said last night: In fact, the uncertainty is getting bigger. Its now clear the models are way too sensitive to carbon dioxide. I cannot see any basis for the IPCC increasing its confidence level.
Over the last 15 years, we've been told that human CO2 emissions would cause global warming to accelerate to new dangerous levels, and this "unequivocal" warming would generate fantastic, catastrophic climate change disasters - the IPCC's climate models told us this, and truth be told, they were absolutely and spectacularly wrong
The state attorneys general of Maine, Connecticut, and Massachusetts filed their own lawsuit in June against the Environmental Protection Agency, claiming the agency is required under the federal Clean Air Act to regulate carbon dioxide emissions. "CEI was highly critical of the AGs lawsuit seeking to tighten regulatory restrictions on energy, since carbon dioxide is not a pollutant, and the case for draconian global warming policies remains unproven. Our opposition to the earlier AG action, we suspect, motivated this attack," says Fred Smith, president of CEI.
The German Association of Energy Consumers estimates that up to 800,000 Germans have had their power cut off because they couldn?t pay the country?s rising electricity bills; among them, German newspaper Der Spiegel reported last October, are 200,000 long-term unemployed.
Professor Nils-Axel Morner, head of the Paleogeophysics and Geodynamics Department at Stockholm University and past president of the INQUA Commission on Sea Level Changes and Coastal Evolution, delivered an amusing and enthusiastic presentation examining sea level change. He pointed out that what has been predicted by computer models is not backed up by empirical evidence. Satellite measures, for instance, show no change in sea level over the past decade, which has led him to write in a peer-reviewed journal, "This implies that there is no fear of any massive future flooding as claimed in most global warming scenarios." Much of the supposed rise, it seems, has actually been a shifting of the amount of water from one area of the globe to another.
Shrub Proliferation Throughout Low Arctic Ecosystems (9 Jul 2013)
"Youngsters can get drunk for half the price of a bar of chocolate, a worrying new study has found."
The graph below plots the number of years between major hurricane strikes in the US. They occur half as often now as they did in the 1940s.
These contradictions and mysteries mark NIWAs latest attempt to hoodwink the public over the national temperature record.
Our goal is to quantify the consequences of the child bearing decisions of an individual. The appeal of our weighting scheme is that it provides an accounting of the extent to which a parents genetic material propagates through subsequent generations, and it allows the emissions of any individual to be unambiguously traced back and assigned to ancestors from any preceding generation.
The Kyoto advocates point to warmer ocean temperatures, but they ought to read their own favorite newspaper, the New York Times, which reported yesterday:
middle of his calibration, when we?re throwing out all post-1960 data ?cos the
The same problems impact on Health. Another example: a day long gone, for who knows what reason, Blair and his government have decided that family doctors should always make an appointment within a few hours, under pain of severe penalty, instead allocate their time to be here in a few days depending on the severity of the request. The result is that it becomes more difference between the young man with the ear flushed and lanziano or child with a high fever, and all have to wait hours nellanticamera dellAmbulatorio.
In this particular part of the world, longer-lasting floods and droughts of equal or greater magnitude than those of modern times occurred repeatedly prior to 1800.?? Hence, one must search elsewhere for evidence that would support climate-alarmist claims of more frequent and/or severe floods and droughts occurring in response to global warming, for there's none to be found here. Reviewed 22 June 2005
* The report consists of 120 graphs (the numbering system includes, e.g., 11a and 11b, so the exact number is different from the 73 that identifies the last table) and contains no interpretation or discussion of the results. Discussion of the results apparently appears (or will appear) in an article in Environmental Science and Policy. The abstract of that article (presented on page 12 of the current report) seems to completely miss the obvious implications of the survey. No surprise, since Bray and von Storch tried to hide the plain results of their past work in a similar fashion.
Obama's Clean Power Plan: Solar companies win, taxpayers lose
Less publicized is that it could affect us all. The disappearing ice itself is accelerating global warming.
"Attorney-General John Hatzistergos said the NSW Law Reform Commission would conduct a review to close a legal loophole."
Fran wasn't going to let me off that easily. "No you don't," she said. "You got us into this, and you're going to keep going."
The Indian Ocean Sea Level data is shown in Figure 3. Based on the smoothed data, the Indian Ocean Sea Level remained flat from early 2007 to early 2008, then rose again since then. Also note the multiple swings in sea level during 1996 and 1997, leading up to the El Nino of 1997/98.
(1) Contrary to what the Editor Charlene M. Anderson writes in the opening column, the Earths climate is not being recorded as undergoing a steady warming. There has been no warming in the past 10 years. Previous decades have seen warming and cooling episodes. If we are undergoing a warming, its definitely not steady
"Attempting a police omniscience seen in only about 20 U.S. cities, the Ogden Police Department is gearing up for a "real time crime center" to be operational soon after its Crime Blimp launches."
Newborn reef fish can cope with changed water conditions if their parents have already adjusted
The extreme snow event in New Zealand that is forecast this weekend is noteworthy in the context of climatology since, according to the IPCC-type predictions, such events should be becoming less common. The forecasts for this event are quite serious. The newsagency TVNZ just released the article
The satellites reveal the inconvenient truth that there has been no global warming for approaching two decades.
To prioritize the EU and UN policies with respect to more urgent environmental challenges, such as air and water pollution, waste management, etc.
But turnabout is fair play. In the same State of the Union speech in which Bush advocated approval of trade treaties with Colombia, Panama, and South Korea -- which union-friendly Democrats have stalled claiming the need for such provisions -- Bush offered on climate change policy to "let us complete an international agreement that has the potential to slow, stop, and eventually reverse the growth of greenhouse gases." But..."This agreement will be effective only if it includes commitments by every major economy and gives none a free ride."
Despite relatively little centennial variability, Briffas reconstruction had a noticeable decline in the late 20th century, despite warmer temperatures. In these early articles , the decline was not hidden.
There's never a real "third way," though. Early credits create a new class of stakeholders in a Kyoto-like regime, divide the business community between "winners" and "losers" in the emissions reduction game, and alter the political dynamic in favor, of Kyoto.
Summary of Sea Level Predictions by N.J. Ford
Professor Mike Lockwood, a space environment physicist at Reading University UK has studied ice cores going back tens of thousands of years. He thinks there?s a very good chance that the Sun is heading for an extremely quiet period. Speaking to the BBC he said that it was
out her assumptions. Charles River Associates (CRA), an econometric modeling firm, has taken those assumptions and reproduced the Administration's analysis. According to CRA:
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Jerry Clark, the physicist, who has spent 30 years tracking data from the relay satellite system, talked to one of the organizers before the meeting. The young man was surprised to learn that not all scientists agreed with Hansen. Clark feels frustrated because "the opportunity for opposing views to receive equal time and billing with Dr. Hansen does not exist; nor will the apologists engage in data comparisons." Instead of the short-term charts Hansen presented, Clark wants to see the data and the real records. Drawing from his experiences on his college debate team, Clark was surprised that "Hansen didn't even try to justify his thesis of man-made global warming."