Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
"Soviet-style bureaucratic guesswork" could also describe the results of an amendment put forth by Sen. Jack Reed (D-R.I.). Reed's measure would have the Securities and Exchange Commissioncharged with investor protect ionmandate that publicly-traded companies include United Nations-endorsed measures of "carbon risk" and "climate friendliness" in annual reports to shareholders.
Can Environmental Advocacy Organizations be Good Stewards of the Environment?
Climate also seems to have played a role in the epidemic of Black Death, which killed about half the population of Central Europe by 1347. For decades leading up to the outbreak, the new study found, wetter summers and a major cold snap corresponded with the onset of a Little Ice Age. Those conditions may have contributed to widespread famine and overall poor health, predisposing people to catch the plague.
Nuccitelli adds, We know that the planet will continue to warm as long as we continue to increase the greenhouse effect. Again, he would have benefited from a more careful use of language. We know that adding CO2 or other greenhouse gases to the air will cause warming, but that cannot prevent natural factors from causing a countervailing cooling from time to time, which is why we have had the 17-year pause in global warming that Railroad Engineer Pachauri has now admitted. Spencer 1, Nuccitelli 0.
Indoor air pollution, caused mainly by cooking over wood fires indoors, is the worlds biggest cause of environmental death. It kills an estimated four million people every year, as noted by the nonprofit science news website, SciDev.Net. Getting fossil-fueled electricity and gas to them is the cheapest and quickest way to save their lives. To argue that the increasingly small risk of dangerous climate change many decades hence is something they should be more worried about is positively obscene.
accepting an invitation to contribute a chapter to an Australian book
Additionally, when methane leaks do occur, they can be effectively managed by using equipment that detect leaks in real time.
In fact, the EU is almost certain to miss its collective targets for the first Kyoto period. While the EU as a whole is committed to an eight percent reduction in emissions (on 1990 levels), the EU itself admits that policies currently in place (other policies are unlikely to be adopted) will lead to a reduction of only 1 percent in 2010. The implications of this are huge.
H/T: Based upon the comment by Steve Case in this article :
P. Gosselin, Cooling polestop 3 coldest Arctic summers will have all occurred in the past 5 years, notrickszone.com, July 28, 2013
Gia Dvali uses his insight to offer a truly radical solution to the hierarchy problem.
Renewable Energy Expert: Offshore Wind has Over Promised
(3) " There is ... little evidence from CMIP5 that our ability to constrain the large-scale climate feedbacks has improved significantly ."
UCS makes this claim based on the same PNAS study cited above. But the study's conclusions are based on the output of a climate model that does no better than a table of random numbers in predicting measured U.S. temperatures during the 20th Century. Furthermore, the model results don't appear to jibe with other key data. For example, data for the last hundred years show no correlation between average winter temperatures in California and subsequent Sierra Nevada water runoff during the spring. There's also no correlation between average temperatures and average winter precipitation in California. And despite rising temperatures during the late 20th Century, the last decade has had the wettest California winters of any decade during the last 50 years, and the 3rd wettest of the last 100 years.
Note also that the Academys metric was global temperature trends. Since this metric now shows a warming halt, true believers are instead citing (unmeasurable) deep ocean heat content. Will the Academy stick with its original temperature metric? And which of the 66 excuses in the recent literature (as of last November) will it use to explain the lack of CO2-caused warming (other than that the theory about the CO2 control-knob is wrong)?
So what are the key players in Climate Change? The major driver is the sun. Warming depends on the sun. Cooling is due to the lack of suns energy. Radiant energy enters the earths atmosphere. Air (on a dry basis) consists mainly of nitrogen 78.08% and oxygen 20.94%. Of the 0.98% remaining, 95% of that (ie 0.934%), or almost all is the inert gas argon. Carbon dioxide CO2 is a trace. It is less than 400ppm (parts per million) or 0.04% of all the atmosphere (on a dry basis). Surprisingly, less than a fifth of that is man-made CO2 (0.008% of the total), and that is only since the beginning of the industrial era and the rapid increase in world population.
Remember when this kind of thing was routinely featured on front pages?
Heartland Institute Experts Comment on Wind Turbines Being a "Human Health Hazard'
Climate Depot Resonse : Superstorm Sandy linked to man-made global warming?! Please Mr. President, read up on science before you embarrass yourself. See: Prof. Roger Pielke Jr.: 'Remarkably, the U.S. is currently experiencing the longest-ever recorded period with no strikes of a Category 3 or stronger hurricane' Sandy was terrible, but we're currently in a relative hurricane 'drought', Pielke Jr. explained ..
Open access to energy exploration of federal waters and lands. The next Administration should open all federal waters and federal lands that are not part of the national park system or congressionally designated areas to exploration and production for all of America's natural resources. Congress should require the Department of the Interior to conduct lease sales if a commercial interest exists.
The Climategate emails from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in England have revealed how the normal conventions of the peer-review process appear to have been compromised by a Team of global warming scientists, with the willing cooperation of the editor of the International Journal of Climatology, Glenn McGregor.
Irony of ironies, Mass v. EPA unexpectedly gives Republicans an opportunity to clarify party differences and hold Democrats accountable for the economic fallout from either cap-and-trade or Clean Air Act regulation.
Reuters today reported that rain and late-season snow continues to affect corn, soybean, and winter wheat crops across the U.S.
Because the possible range of sensitivities has been virtually the same, it means that the predictions made in the first IPCC report in 1990 should still be valid. That is, according to the writers of all the IPCC reports, the temperature today should be within the range of predictions made 22 years ago. But they are not!
So, who are the criminals against humanity? The brave and diligent scientists whose research in many different fields now amply demonstrates that the chief conclusions of the UN's climate panel are nonsense, or the pietistic true-believers whose policies allegedly designed to address the non-problem of "global warming" are already killing millions by starvation?
Global Warming Hoax Weekly Round-Up, Jan 6th 2011
Temperatures across much of the north-central U.S. on Tuesday were 20 to 40 degrees below average in many areas, the National Weather Service said.
All of this will be in the report. What won't be there is a more thorough explanation for the supposed decline in warming.
How can we reconcile this? The not-so-obvious short answer is that the overall warming of the atmosphere is actually creating cold-weather extremes. Last winter, too, was exceptionally snowy and cold across the Eastern United States and Eurasia, as were seven of the previous nine winters.
Dow's flip-flops and inside-outside strategy make sense from a crude, self-interested business perspective. With economists and environmentalists on the left and the right challenging its lonely position, its reacting more like a caged animal than a responsible corporate citizen. Their reactions, as clumsy as they have been, are at least understandable.
Yet, the first people who welcomed us into the village were a group of women that had formed a successful cooperative to address the challenges the floods have brought. Their model is dispersing loans to other women in the village from their collective savings and charging interest on them. Loans in turn are used to buy livestock and other assets that could improve income over the longer term.
Therefore, those who are anxious to believe that the long pause in global warming is what the models expected, or at least allowed for, can take a crumb of comfort from that.
"It wasn't that long ago that Digg was a thriving online community. Publishers longed to be on Digg's coveted front page because it translated into many page views, but over the last couple of months something went terribly wrong with Digg."
Indeed, some commentators have speculated that America's supposedly unilateralist approach to the global warming issue may have spurred hatred among terrorists. This prompted mid-Western satirist James Lileks to fulminate on his web log (www.lileks.com):
1. Mexico - Protocol Amending Agreement of November 16 and 18, 1993 concerning the Establishment of a Border Environment Cooperation Commission and a North American Development Bank
Now begins to end something happen with deep sea curve. We prvar to make deep-sea rate constant further 10 times faster:
Frank Fenner is an 95-year-old Australian scientist who helped to eradicate smallpox. He wrote a 3.5-kilogram book on it, too.
When I first started this blog, I promised myself I would take the time to post featurettes on small business topics for which business school really did not prepare me. The first such feature was on buying a business .
The EU High Noon webpage also relied on the WWF article directly, citing it as authority as follows:
"Warming is accelerating and sea levels will rise more than expected." The IPCC mid-range 10 year projection is 1.26 inches and may not clearly be distinguished from the change registered since the ice age ended, ie for some 10,000 years.
According to the Fresno Bee (April 1, 2002), carmakers say the "technology doesn't yet exist to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. Unlike previous bills to regulate toxic emissions such as ozone and diesel soot, the bill requires carmakers to begin limiting natural byproducts of the internal combustion engine."
Here's a great example. From the report - "millions to go hungry, waterless" - you'd think that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change had found that global warming was intensifying.
1. Tuvalu and many other South Pacific Islands are not sinking, claims they are due to global warming driven sea level rise areopportunistic
Even if we consider the worst case scenario, there is no economic case for reducing CO2 output. The basis of the economic analysis appears flawed and seems sensible to wait till there is evidence of specific problem and deal with these, rather than basing policy on unsupported speculation about what may happen.
overseas and found that even when they wanted to do so, they faced determined and
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The macroeconomic seeds of failure were also clear. Energy use and economic growth are at the very least co-dependent, if not a matter of straight dependency. It was a foregone conclusion that governments that rationed energy or raised energy costs would make their national economies less economically competitive against countries that didn't, and would be forced to back away from the controls by companies fleeing to less-regulated places, and people voting their pocketbooks.
Social psychologist Jose Duarte has a series of blog posts that document the ludicrousness of the selection and categorization of papers by Cook et al., including citation of specific articles that they categorized as supporting the climate change consensus:
Die Zeit portrays Michael Mann as a humble andinnocent scientist who today is being relentlessly tormented and persecuted by Morano and the skeptics just because his results are unpopular. While Morano lives in a big Victorian home , is chauffeured around in a limousine and eats steak at the exquisite Capital Grill , Mann lives in a humblelittle home, lit up by wind power,and is worried about his 7-year old daughters future. (Theres no mention he won a Nobel Peace Prize).
No one could predict that the bill's narrow passage in the House in June 2009by a vote of 219-212would be the high point for a bill that died a year later without even a vote on the Senate floor. And in a harbinger of the partisan divide on climate change that has only deepened in the years since, the Waxman-Markey American Clean Energy and Security Act garnered just eight Republican votes.
The leaders of the House and Senate are barely on speaking terms with each other. There?s plenty of blame to go around, of course, and neither party is innocent.
It isa scandal, as by shouting out (in the example above) against homosexuality, priests and Christians of all kinds of denominations are actively trying to deny other people the possibility of Salvation.
When wide-scale devastation failed to materialize, though New England was hardest hit, those same forecasters explained that snow is unpredictable and began backtracking faster than a four-wheel drive pickup on an icy road.
Professor Will Steffen , a member of the climate change committee set up by the Gillard government in September last year, told AAP he was working on a report covering the floods.
The melting was first caused by more solar radiation, not changes in carbon dioxide levels or ocean temperatures, as some scientists have suggested in recent years.
peer review is plagued by the opposite problem-spiteful criticism
For example, the ANPR estimates thatdesignating CO 2 asa regulatedair pollutantwouldproduce a tenfold increase in the number of PSDpermit applicationsfrom about 200-300 per year to 2,000-3000 per year. This, the ANPR acknowledges,could overwhelm the administrative resources of EPA and otheragencies, andfirms seeking to build or modify sources would face new costs, uncertainty, and delay.
Newsreader: The Met Office has revised downwards its projection for climate change through to 2017. The new figure suggests that although global temperatures will be forced above their long-term average because of greenhouse gases, the recent slowdown in warming will continue. More details from our environment analyst Roger Harrabin.
The EPA's dereliction of duty also leads to bad policy. For starters, it is the sine qua non of "sue and settle." The Clean Air Act empowers environmental litigation groups to sue the agency to compel performance of non-discretionary duties like deadlines. Because the agency is missing virtually all of its deadlines, winning these suits is like shooting fish in a barrel. The unfortunate consequence is that environmental special interests dictate which duties should take precedence over others, which affords these groups the power to set the agency's agenda. Needless to say, unelected ideologues should not have such an outsized say in how the EPA spends its limited resources.
Ive lived in the country where we had power outages every winter.
"University of Utah geophysicists made the first large-scale picture of the electrical conductivity of the gigantic underground plume of hot and partly molten rock that feeds the Yellowstone supervolcano. The image suggests the plume is even bigger than it appears in earlier images made with earthquake waves."
In comments, boballab posted a link to a picture of the undersea topology with volcanoes marked.
So we have a constant warming rate of 0.17 degrees Celsius per decade, and we have a majority of computer models predicting a constant rate of warming.
Lead Authors we have. Paleo is in a different section this time led by Peck and Eystein
> >> variability. Important to discriminate between these different
Global Warming Bill Progresses in California Senate
"In February, for five nights and five days I was locked in an igloo in a German ski resort and everything I did was streamed live on the internet like a mini Big Brother.
Over the past two decades, the dominant pattern in OECD countries is one of a fairly widespread increase in income inequality with strong rises in Finland, Norway, Sweden (from a low base) and Germany, Italy, New Zealand and the United States (from a high base). In these cases medians and means would give different pictures of what is happening to societal well-being.
For the last twenty years the Greens and their scientists have been telling us the islands of the Tuvalu and Maldives were sinking into the ocean. In 2011 aerial photographs taken 60 years apart show the land area of all Tuvalu islands have grown by 5-30%. No discernible change in the Maldives. Very large Error
As U.S. oil and natural gas production booms, the Obama administrations energy policy has been fluid by necessity to adapt to the huge economic opportunities and climate challenges posed by growth, the top White House energy and climate adviser said on Wednesday. In a speech to a room packed with energy analysts and lobbyists, Obama adviser Heather Zichal acknowledged that U.S. energy policy might not look perfectly pretty from the outside as it evolves to shifting supply-and-demand scenarios. --Roberta Rampton, Reuters, 28 February 2013
The bright side of Katrina, concludes Tritten, is that it will force President Bush to face facts. "When reason finally pays a visit to climate-polluter headquarters, the international community has to be prepared to hand America a worked-out proposal for the future of international climate protection."
The challenge of forecasting 2110 is readily illustrated by looking back 100 years ago to 1910. Consider what sages a century ago might have guessed about the impact of just a handful of technologies invented circa 1910: the washing machine, vacuum cleaner, vacuum tube, air conditioner, central telephone exchange and airplane.
Dennis T. Avery's Official Challenge to Al Gore
Prosser edging Kloppenburg in votes, recount all but assured:
New peer reviewed study: Surge in North Atlantic hurricanes due to better detectors, not climate change
Thus, 4.7 ln(390/388) = 0.043 Fahrenheit degrees less than a twentieth of a Fahrenheit degree of global warming every year. That is all. Putting it another way, it would take almost a quarter of a century with no carbon-emitting activity at all not a single train, plane, automobile, or fossil-fueled power station to forestall just 1 Fahrenheit degree of global warming.
Figure 2 shows that the impacts on future sea level rise projections are equally insignificant. Instead of a projected sea level rise of 15.1cm by 2050, the Kerry-Lieberman bill produces a rise of 14.9cm. By 2100, the BAU projected rise is 37.1cm and the Kerry-Lieberman rise is 36.0cm. A centurys end sea level rise savings of 1.1cm, or 0.43 inches. Too small to be of consequence.
Some scientists, however, have been arguing the world is indeed headed for a cooling phase based on solar cycles. Scientists from Germany to India have argued that weakening solar activity could bring about another Little Ice Age.
" So instead of identifying why there has been less global warming over the past 10-15 years than climate models have projected, Solomon et al. have found that climate models have missed the mark even furtherfor had they properly included the effect of volcanoes and background stratospheric aerosols, they would have projected even a greater rate of warming than they already do. And since observations show that there has been relatively little, if any, warming over this same time period, the results from Solomon et al. means that climate models are doing worse than even the model lovers have realized."
Then there's the new Al Gore moviea documentary production of his global warming lecture and slide showthat was recently screened at the Sundance Film Festival. The movie's promotional material features penguins trekking as in the hit documentary "March of the Penguins"but across a desert rather than Antarctic ice.
Meanwhile, thanks to well-meaning but ill-thought-out regulation, utilities are unable to use flexible pricing strategies to incentivize efficient energy use. If electricity were to cost more during periods of high demand, such as the evening, then customers would probably use less of it then, remembering to switch off lights when not needed. Such pricing structures have tended to work. A highly regulated grid is not conducive to the efficient flow of electricity.
If the planet was actually warming, like it did from 1917 to 1936, I wouldnt be able to construct a graph which was flat for 19 years. It would look like the graph below.
A symbolic cod was placed in the hall, and was later moved to the new State House building in 1798. There it has remained ever since.
Dr. Sallie Baliunas discusses the Little Ice Age and the history of peoples superstitious reactions to extreme weather.
Schneiderman began investigating Exxon last fall, subpoenaing documents from the company after learning that Exxon researchers were concerned about climate change decades ago even as Exxon publicly expressed uncertainties about it. (Philip Hamburger's post on Law and Liberty about the original subpoena is here.) These researchers expected massive increases in temperature over the last 30 years that never came true, as Marlo Lewis and David Middleton have written. But Schneiderman believes Exxon committed fraud by not trumpeting their projections as fact. Following in Schneiderman's illogical footsteps, his California counterpart Kamala Harris opened an investigation in January, and in March, so did their counterparts in Massachusetts and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
The only period in 600 million years when CO2 levels were equal to the present was over 300 million years ago. Since that time CO2 levels averaged 1000 to 1200 ppm or 3 to 4 times current levels. How did the plant and animal life survive those levels? It makes a mockery of the claim that even a doubling of atmospheric CO2 is a problem.
NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (NASA-GISS) : +0.3 F/decade.
Vclav Klaus, The Global Warming Policy Foundation Annual Lecture, London, October 19, 2010.
In contrast to the Live Earth entertainment extravaganza, the Folklife Festival was a venue that really celebrated our rural roots and the so-called simple life. And the attendees practiced conservation in action, as I saw barely a scrap of trash on the grounds of the Mall. (There were also lots of recycling bins, but whether recycling is always beneficial is another story.) One would think this would be an event a good Green would love.
The community is also adapting their use of natural resources. They have built a raised well to stop the floods from polluting fresh groundwater, and we met the woman who manages it and ensures this water is distributed fairly in times of need. New drought- and flood-resistant crops have been planted in the floodplain, and the community also have a resources centre with posters on the walls and a meeting space to encourage learning about sound management of fisheries, forests and agricultural land.
But there is a more subtle link. The case against Barry George was strengthened by the fact that a number of photographs of Jill Dando were found in his home. It turns out that Barry George had loads of old newspapers in his home. The police had searched through them, and, not surprisingly, found a number of pictures of a well-known and popular TV personality. There was no evidence presented that Barry George has marked these pictures, just that he had them in his possession. The case against Sean Hodgson was based around his confession, on a number of occasions, to the crime. This is clear-cut, until you learn that he was a pathological liar, who had confessed to a number of other murders, which he could not have committed.
They have to spend way more in terms of respiration, heart rate meaning they have less energy for feeding and less energy for growth and reproduction, she said.
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Center for Entrepreneurship Director John Berlau on the misguided motives behind the Bush plan: