Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
Ocean acidification in response to rising atmospheric CO2 partial pressures is widely expected to reduce calcification by marine organisms. From the mid-Mesozoic, coccolithophores have been major calcium carbonate producers in the worlds oceans, today accounting for about a third of the total marine CaCO3 production. Here, we present laboratory evidence that calcification and net primary production in the coccolithophore species Emiliania huxleyi are significantly increased by high CO2 partial pressures. Field evidence from the deep ocean is consistent with these laboratory conclusions, indicating that over the past 220 years there has been a 40% increase in average coccolith mass. Our findings show that coccolithophores are already responding and will probably continue to respond to rising atmospheric CO2 partial pressures, which has important implications for biogeochemical modeling of future oceans and climate.
// // The clocks above are central daylight savings time USA , just so you can figure out what the time will be in your own zone.
"As President Obama and Congress brace to battle over how to reduce chronic annual budget deficits, Americans overwhelmingly say that in general they prefer cutting government spending to paying higher taxes, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll."
Take the 2001 NRC report, for instance. Although media reports described it as supporting the theories of environmental advocates, its findings are actually quite delicately balanced: The NRC concluded that the slightly warmer temperatures of the last several decades "are likely mostly due to human activities," but science "cannot rule out that some significant part of these changes is also a reflection of natural variability" (emphasis added). In fact, it is difficult to determine just how much warming is normal (or not) because "the range of natural climate variability is known to be quite large."
Not only are the actors in Oregon who perform Shakespeare against modern seed technology, but so is Chuck Norris. Well, that settles it. Farmers depending upon genetically engineered seed might have had a chance against Dr. Oz and men who wear tights, but if you've lost Chuck, you are in deep trouble. According to the world's most famous Texas Ranger, GMOs are "killing you softly" and will be responsible for "novel epidemics." According to Iowa farmer Bill Horan, Norris didn't write the column in which those charges appeared, he just stared at "words until they arranged themselves into sentences." A society that cares what a martial artist conjures up about agriculture is already contaminated by an epidemic of foolishness.
As of May 2011, the all-sector cost of electricity in California was 13.4 cents per kWh versus a national average of 9.936 percent higher than national average. A string of bankruptcies from solar energy plants show solar energy is not economical; winners are bankruptcy lawyers, and losers are taxpayers and electricity ratepayers.
19 Sep 2012 09:58 | by Nick Farrell in Rome
At a time when the Republican presidential candidates are swiftly backing away from past moderate environmental positions, Newt Gingrich may be the only one with a book pending on the topic.
As Mann and Sanger try pick out the distinguishing features of Obama foreign
To colleges, universities, and pension funds, we say: Demand and ensure open, robust debate on all these issues, before you vote on divestment. Allow no noisy disruption, walk-outs, or false claims of consensus. Compel divestment advocates to defend their positions, factually and respectfully. Protect the rights and aspirations of people everywhere to reliable, affordable electricity, better living standards and improved health. And instead of "Global Divestment Day," host and honor "Hydrocarbon Appreciation Day."
The Age newspaper ran a series of daily feature articles during the week following the conference. Some excerpts are:
The press release says it is extremely likely that human influence has been the dominant cause of the observed warming since the mid-20th century . The report fails to acknowledge that global temperatures have been at a standstill for the last 15 years, claiming rather that each of the last three decades has been successively warmer at the Earths surface than any preceding decade since 1850 astatistical sleight of hand.
15. Henderson made this recommendation at an AEI conference last November (see www.aei.org/eventsummary939), and more recently to an inquiry of the British House of Lords.
rapid warming, due to CO2. The evidence from the last 1,000 years plus does not support the hypothesis. Previously , we examined the data from Antarctica. Now we look at the actual Arctic area data (see chart below) and find that like the Antarctic, the northern polar regions have temperature swings unrelated to the CO2 levels. From peak to valley, Arctic temperatures changed more than 1.6 degrees Celsius while CO2 levels remained fairly stable. (click on image to enlarge)
According to the EIA, "the United States is producing less electricity now than it did when Obama took office From 2008 to 2012, U.S. electricity production declined by 1.7%."
The courts ruling is somewhat of a shocker. Fuel economy standards clearly affect vehicle marketing and design in ways that run counter to consumer demand; that, in fact, is the very rationale for these government regulations. And so the notion that auto dealers cant litigate the legality of this impact on the products they sell seems strange. It also appears to run counter to the fuel-economy cases that CEI and Consumer Alert brought in 1989 thru 1995, challenging the federal CAFE standards on the grounds that they increased traffic deaths by restricting the availability of larger, more crashworthy cars.
Mr. Martin's achievement is a reminder that, though we often underestimate the progress of a technology, sometimes we overestimate it. Back in the 1950s it seemed almost obvious that by the 21st century jet packs would be ubiquitous and routine aids to travel. They featured in sci-fi novels and comics and television series like "Lost in Space." A time-traveler who arrived from that era might be impressed by our Internet and mobile phones but amazed at our lack of working jet packs.
One final thing, this IR map shows that area of Kent near Gravesend to be one of the warmer places around London, warmer even than the cityscape of London itself:
China's new five-year plan and a follow-up one for 2016-2020 will detail how to reach the intensity goal and shift to low-carbon growth. But it is struggling to meet an existing target to cut energy intensity by 20 percent from 2005-10.
Major corporations profiting from Obama policies are bankrolling President Obama's official inaugural committee. While we know the names of the donors to Obama's inaugural, we don't know much more, because Obama is once again trampling his promises of transparency.
History Shows Carbon Caps a Failed Policy
Watch Now: Flashback: Climate Depot's Morano on Fox News Mocking "Climate Astrology': "This is now akin to the predictions of Nostradamus or the Mayan calendar' Morano: "There is no way anyone can falsify the global warming theory now because any weather event that happens "proves' their case Man-made global warming has ceased to be a science, it is now the level of your daily horoscope' Gore did not warn us of extreme blizzards and record cold winters coming'
This spectacular litany of misrule has elicited a mass public distrust of the nation's leaders. An April 2010 study found that "Americans are more dissatisfied with the country's direction than at any time since the New York Times/CBS News poll began asking about the subject in the early 1990s." Other polls show similar results. This is not a sustainable situation, and increasing conflict appears to be inevitable. With the productive class pressing for self-governance which its members see as both their inherent right and as necessary to their productivity and the progressive aristocracy threatened with the loss of everything, compromise is impossible.
Based in Nairobi, UNEP was set up in 1972 as an office of the UN, but as a "programme" it does not have the scope of an agency.
In the Assessment's 1200 horror-studded pages, almost everything that happens in our complex world sex, birth, disease, death, hunger, and wars, to name a few is somehow made worse by pernicious emissions of carbon dioxide and the joggling of surface average temperature by a mere two degrees.
There has not been a public debate about the causes of global warming and most of the public and our decision makers are not aware of the most basic salient facts.
An insurmountable obstacle to AGW is that there is overwhelming evidence that CO2 does not move before temperature but at best as a response to it or arguably with no correlation at all; this is shown over all timespans: geological , 20thC and 21stC. So to argue as many do, that CO2 causes a temperature increase, is to argue against the data. That has never bothered AGW science so we have two new papers saying either CO2 rises before temperature as Shakum does, or that there is synchronicity between CO2 and temperature as Parrenin et al argues. Shakum is easily dismissed because he bases his conclusion on a massive cherry pick of the only period in the last 20,000 years where CO2 appears to rise before temperature .
I frankly find it immensely sad that, not only real events, but also the work and knowledge of serious scientists, accumulated over many years, can apparently be swept aside at the whim of an algorithm. Computer models can have their value, but we surely need to keep an eye on whats happening in the real world.
Is there any limit to how large and powerful the reach of any government aims to be?
Propane fracking is a new technique that has had limited use in the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Alberta and in a smaller number of test wells in states that include Texas, Pennsylvania, Colorado, Oklahoma and New Mexico. Its developer, Calary-based GasFrac, is seeking a U.S. patent.
Oh, and what of those much-vaunted computer software models showing the world warming, the icecaps melting, and the world ending? The leaker kindly included the computer code used by the IPCC for its modeling, in which we find this interesting snippet:
New Engl J Med 2011;365:198-201.
Risbey et al. (2014) admitted that the models they selected for having the proper sequence of ENSO events did so by chance, not out of skill, which undermines the intent of their paper. If the focus of the paper had been need for climate models to be in-phase with obseervations, they would have achieved their goal. But that wasnt the aim of the paper. The concluding sentence of the abstract claims that climate models have provided good estimates of 15-year trends, including for recent periods when, in fact, it was by pure chance that the cherry-picked models aligned with the real world. No skill involved. If models had any skill, the outputs of the models would be in-phase with observations.
9. Demonize oil all you want, but coal is the real issue when it comes to carbon-dioxide emissions. Again, look at the numbers: Over the past decade, global coal use increased by 47 percent to about 71.4 million barrels of oil equivalent per day. During that same time period, oil use increased by 13 percent to about 87.3 million barrels per day. If Hansen, McKibben, and their allies want to protest projects that result in lots of carbon-dioxide emissions, they should be looking for coal mines and coal-fired generators, not oil pipelines. But protesting against coal means protesting against electricity generation, because most coal is used for that purpose. Over the past decade, electricity demand in Asia jumped by a whopping 85 percent. All over the world, people are turning on lights in their homes for the very first time. That trend will continue.
So far, so good. However, the British arm of the climate establishment silently released an encyclical that revealed no discernible rise in aggregate global temperatures from the beginning of 1997 until August this year.
Theres a media war going on here in Australia. At stake is free speech but the discussion about it is completely disguised and parades instead as a debate about balance in science reporting.
Again, it should be noted that the NEMS and the HEM both include the changes in behavior and investment in energy-saving technology that firms and households will undertake to adjust to higher prices. So, the projected income and job losses are over and above any offsetting gains found in industries and services that provide low-carbon and no-carbon alternatives.
So what does the Met office say about how official weather stations should be sited? They have it right here:
This private musing between two climate scientist colleagues first surfaced along with a whole raft of embarrassing material in 2011, when the anonymous Climategate leaker who calls himself "Mr. FOIA" leaked his second set of emails from Britain's disgraced Climate Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia. Now, Mr. FOIA has emerged for a third time, sharing with the world not only his entire batch of 220,000 encrypted emails and documents but also, for the first time, his thoughts.
I plotted the average difference between the Raw Data and the adjustment, along with the max and min values in Chart 4 .
How the regulating class is using bogus claims about climate change to entrench and extend their economic privileges and political control.
In the two years since the big flash at Nature , further and better analysis confirms that what has been going on in Antarctica is pretty much what we knew to be happening all alongthat during the last 3-to-4 decade period of rapid build-up of atmospheric carbon dioxide, the temperature has changed little at the continental scale, and instead is characterized by a complex pattern of regional warming and cooling. Such changes do not foreshadow a rapid loss of continental Antarctic ice nor an alarming Antarctic contribution to the rate of current and future sea level rise this century as a result of surface ice melt. In fact, measurements from a different satellite data set that begin in 1979 show that the extent of ice in the southern high latitudes is increasingly significantly .
He would welcome Australia making a commitment to move to 100 per cent renewable energy but said it would be a mistake . I think the chances of that working and being at a price that the public would be willing to pay is not very good , he said.
16h. The ability of global climate models to model sea level rise for the next 50 years
But as they say on TV, wait, theres more. The problem is, the surface loses energy in three waysas radiation, as sensible heat, and as the latent heat of evapotranspiration. The energy loss from the surface by radiation (per CERES) is ~ 400 watts per square metre (W/m2), and the loss by sensible and latent heat is ~ 100 W/m2, or a quarter of the radiation loss.
They may be surprised to discover that Geologist Professor Peter Clift of Aberdeen University found that ???during a warm period 6,000 years ago, the Indus was a monster river, more powerful and more prone to flooding than today. Then, 4,000 years ago, as the climate cooled, a large part of it simply dried up. Deserts appeared where mighty torrents once flowed.??
Seeing how poorly global SST anomalies track NINO3.4 SST anomalies in the 1940s, the upcoming modifications by the Hadley Centre could be a good thing. Maybe theyll try to clean up the data from 1910 to 1940 next.
The Clinton administration played a role in the negotiation of the Kyoto Protocol in 1997, but the former President refused to submit the treaty for approval by the Senate. The policy of the Bush Administration to continue to participate in negotiations under the UN's Framework Convention, but not to submit the Kyoto Protocol to the Senate is consistent with the Clinton record on climate change policy.
By Larry Bell, Newsmax, Aug 10, 2015
hyposthesis put out by IPCC and others, this report from 3 Naval Officers goes into the defense issues.
So, according to my observations, sea levels in Moreton Bay have gone down about 300 mm over the last 67 years.
In other words, you have to know all the current conditions of the atmosphere, everywhere within it, to predict what the atmosphere will be doing in the distant future. In view of the inevitable inaccuracy and incompleteness of weather observations, precise very-long-range forecasting would seem to be nonexistent, Lorenz concluded. So even if the molecules in the air all interacted nonrandomly, in a totally cause-and-effect (deterministic) manner, you still couldnt predict with certainty what they would do or what the weather would be.
But theres a big disconnect from facts here. In reality, there has been no increase in the strength or frequency of landfall hurricanes in the worlds five main hurricane basins during the past 50-70 years; there has been no increase in the strength or frequency in tropical Atlantic hurricane development during the past 370 years; the U.S. is currently enjoying the longest period ever recorded without intense Category 3-5 hurricane landfall; there has been no trend since 1950 evidencing any increased frequency of strong (F3-F-5) U.S. tornadoes; there has been no increase in U.S. flood magnitudes over the past 85 years; and long-term sea level rise is not accelerating.
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Government climate scientists respond predictably by further tampering with temperature data, and claiming record warm sea surface temperatures.
As can be seen, the satellite-based tempera tures have been steadily rising relative to the Conventional SST measurements, with a total linear Increase of 00:15 deg C over the 7 year period of record versus the Conventional SST measurements.
Returning to the topic of the Sun, Gray isn't the only one. Roy Spencer recently decided that the evidence supporting cosmoclimatology got pretty strong but Richard Lindzen would still be more likely to say "No" than "Yes". Various people have different guesses what really matters and Richard Lindzen surely thinks that the internal, largely chaotic variability and "long-term meteorology" a natural extrapolation of the processes in which he's the world's leading expert is what dominates the climate change. Each of these people may construct a model that at least subjectively seems consistent enough with the observed data and more satisfactory than the models of the other folks, whether they're LFCSes or not.
The Christian Science Monitor joins the NYTimes, WSJ, IBD and Rollingstone Magazine and comes out today against corn ethanol, the "state religion": Corn. There's nothing like eating it right off the cob at a picnic. It's also great as flakes, fritters, or a muffin. And it's feed for livestock. But there's one thing corn should not be: A solution for global warming or a way to reduce America's dependency on foreign oil. To take corn out of cereal bowls and put it into our gas tanks isn't an answer to global warming.
"My column today contrasts President Obama's State of the Union hype about "innovation" and "investment" in education with the abysmal failures of massive federal spending on America's schools. The White House love to talk about global "competitiveness," but refuse to support competition in our government-run K-12 schools monopoly. "Sputnik moment" or Sputter-nik moment?"
The underlying causes of these constant switches from warm to cold cycles, and back again, remain a long way from being understood.
Nor, as Idsos father Dr. Sherwood Idso points out, is there any doubt in the scientific community that the temperature increase associated with an interglacial period precedes an increase in carbon dioxide concentrations. Ice core data shows this relationship quite clearly and Al Gores misrepresentation of this fact, by skewing data in An Inconvenient Truth to make it seem that carbon dioxide concentrations have historically caused, rather than followed, temperature changes is one of the more glaring errors in his film.
Early DOE loan-guarantee failures likely will be joined by later failures, despite a variety of special government favors keeping the ethanol, wind power, and on-grid solar power markets active.
That Ring is "libertarian Republicanism." If only conservatives were more tolerant on social issues and less supportive of U.S. military involvement overseas, Paul argues, they could win elections in blue states and nationwide. "I don't think we need to dilute our message of low taxes, less regulation, and balanced budgets to win in California," he recently said at the Reagan Library.
CEI: In the mid-1990's, a nativist, anti-immigrant strain in the Republican Party, led by Pete Wilson and Pat Buchanan and Lamar Smith and Alan Simpson, garnered a lot of attention. What has happened to the issue?
Keep in mind, though, that the discontinuity also exists in COADS and Hadley Centres Marine Air Temperature data (as does the appearance of an El Nino beforehand) and in the COADS Cloud Cover and Wind Speed data.
The Winrock study is not the first to tackle the question of how much carbon is emitted from tropical deforestation. Researchers have been studying the land-use component of the global carbon cycle since the early 1980s, when a tabular bookkeeping model was developed that aggregates data and calculations over large geographic regions. This model uses broad assumptions about forest carbon stocks as well as national forest data collected by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Virtually all published estimates of carbon emissions from land-use change rely on this model.
Ornithologist and fgelmlaren Lars Jonsson (Kittocks board member of the Stockholm Initiative) was invited by virtue of his konstnrskap from talking about wind power and the countryside. I asked Lars to record their experiences from the conference fr then be able to share them. Here below follows the his tale. Anyone who wants to read more about Lars konstnrskap can then go out on his website: http://www.larsjonsson.se/frameset1.htm
2) I have indicated which sites are classified as rural by GISS (i.e. <10000 population). Out of the three sites that report higher temperatures in 2012, only one is rural.
It is curious to note that guests of the BBC broadcast rice have only up to a certain point after which one of them has wittily said Lysenko, with the personality and attitudes, would have a secure career in science modern British (mp3: 24m15s) .
On 11-12 May genomfrdes Conference Everyone wind Kalmar: http://www.nationellavind2011.se/
Iversen et al . conclude that "the greater residence time of C in deeper soil indicates that inputs from deep roots under elevated CO 2 may increase the potential for long-term storage of C and N in forested ecosystems," adding that "this finding suggests greater C accrual in elevated CO 2 compared with ambient CO 2 during the experiment, consistent with the conclusion of a meta-analysis that indicated increased ecosystem C storage under elevated CO 2 (Luo et al ., 2006)," all of which observations presage, in their words, "the potential of future forests to store C and mitigate some portion of rising atmospheric CO 2 ," as they state in the concluding sentence of their report.
Among the more revealing tidbits is a remark scolding a scientist for being honest about the weakness of aerosol forcing data: "We clearly cannot use aerosol forcing as the trigger of our smoking gun, and then make a generalized appeal to uncertainty to exclude these effects from the forward-looking modeling analysis."
Sorry, the apparent break is caused by our 20+ kilometers long cross-country skiing trip across the Brdy Hills, a few miles from the U.S. radar base. We started at Chynn . Blogging will resume soon. Progress in neuroscience A simple scheme of female thinking has been found.
Utz Tillmann,Energy Intensive Industries of Germany, quoted in German Industry Issues Stark Warning Ahead of EU Climate Summit , EurActiv , October 22, 2014.
That project, code-named Project Nina, has been put off until sometime in 2013.