Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
Allowing this flaw in judgment to stand would set an unworkable precedent for future elections and cause irreparable harm to the impartiality of this court, said Chief Justice John G. Roberts in his majority opinion. Furthermore, let me be the first to personally congratulate President Gore on his remarkable come-from-behind victory. May he guide us wisely into this new millennium. Added Roberts, The system works. Moments after the courts noontime announcement, Gore was flown to Washington, D.C. aboard Air Force One, sworn in on the steps of the U.S. Capitol, and immediately escorted to a brief victory rally at the National Mall. By 4:30 p.m., his 15 cabinet appointees had been vetted, contacted, and brought to Washington, where they were all simultaneously approved by a majority vote in the Senate. Gore then delivered the first of seven consecutive State of the Union addresses. .
Of course, in order to give Fits to the UK public, it is necessary to have smart meter technology, the roll-out of which is being accelerated under the new coalition government headed by David Cameron.
So if it was so much warmer at 400 ppm CO2 then, why is it so much cooler at 400 ppm CO2 now?
This graph of outgoing longwave radiation shows that since April of 2009, space aliens have been stealing the Earths heat. Now we know where Trenberths missing heat is hiding.
Ah, yes, not only are they going to tweak the mid-century temperatures, but they are also going to make recent temperatures warmer than they are currently being reported. This will kill two birds with one stone.
As Roy Spencer and John Christy have pointed out, all 73 climate models are forecast higher temperature trends in the atmosphere above the tropics, than what is being observed. Many of the models forecast trends that are more than twice of what is observed. A further issue with the study is that the period coinciding with the ending of the Little Ice Age is hardly the proper place to start the base. See links under Communicating Better to the Public Exaggerate, or be Vague? and http://www.drroyspencer.com/2013/06/still-epic-fail-73-climate-models-vs-measurements-running-5-year-means/
In one of the many documents released, Shukla denies he and his collaborators were attempting to silence dissent on climate change.
To be sure, Australians did not confuse a well-crafted speech with action. Take for example, President Xi's pledge to Australia's Parliament that China will always address its maritime disputes peacefully. It would have more credibility if China were less obstructionist in moving forward on a long-promised binding China-Asean Code of Conduct in the South China Sea, and stepped back from engaging in increasingly frequent and coercive behaviour in contested maritime zones in that body of water. Indeed, President Xi's pointed reminder in his speech that Beijing will "firmly uphold core interests of China's sovereignty, security and territorial integrity" was not overlooked.
5. Over the last 120,000 years, there have been 25 periods of warming where temperature rose by up to 8 deg C. These were not driven by human emissions, were natural and were neither irreversible nor catastrophic.
Finally, Jacobson said, carbon particles released from burning biomass settle on snow and ice, contributing to further warming.
And maybe while we're exchanging ideas with China about jointly addressing any climatological weapon of mass destruction threat, they can give us a hand with some other global dangers as well. China's assistance in arresting WMD terrorism threats posed by Iran, North Korea, and Syria immediately come to mind as examples of climate changes in global security cooperation we can all wish for.
Four years ago, Obama's PIC mostly matched his reformer rhetoric: He barred corporate money and capped contributions at $50,000. George W. Bush and Bill Clinton both took large corporate contributions for their PICs.
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Hail, bounteous May, that doth inspire mirth
Had he wished to be objective, he would have pointed out that the polar bear population has not been falling, but rising.
This is an opinion about opinions of experts who use models that we know cant predict temperatures. Not only is this fact already piled three layers of nonsense deep, the most abjectly stupid point is the fourth layer, the pretense that these models might , in their wildest dreams, be able to predict rainfall which is an order of magnitude harder than just predicting global temperature. Predicting bushfires is dependent on knowing not just total rainfall in one region, but how that rainfall is spread throughout the year. Not to mention that bushfires depend on wind speed, wind direction, land-use (fuel load), and humidity.
UC Riverside-led study points to an ancient oxygen-free and hydrogen sulfide-rich ocean that may foreshadow our future
Search and rescue of passenger vessel trapped in ice underway
I found this comment from a reader who calls him(her)self wordsmith, posted under my Contact sidebar. Because its Christmas Eve and things are a little hectic, I thought maybe some readers could give me a hand and help out this poor warmist. Heres his(her) comment:
Yet another reason that climate change may be more complicated than you think
Obama's added 553 million acres worth of national monuments during his time in office, more than any other U.S. president. Most of these designations have put federal waters under increased protection, according to the Post.
So the Congressman had asked me to write proving my result, and I had done so by preparing the second graph, from Tom Karl's own NCDC (it was labeled as such), which had also showed a pronounced downtrend in global temperatures.
Washington Post columnist Robert Samuelson strongly criticized the lawsuit recently launched by eight state Attorneys General against several electricity generators for creating a "public nuisance" by contributing to global warming (Aug. 11).
Now, if I take HadCRUT4 back to the beginning of 1997, I get this...
Drought and forest fires happen. We have no reason to think that we can do anything to prevent the former, but we know that can do a lot about preventing and controlling the latter if only the environmentalists will let us.
"Snowmageddon" threatens Massachusetts global warming forum
In their determination to reduce GHG emissions in the near term rather than the long term, climate campaigners could have achieved a vastly better result with less cost and little bureaucracy through a simple, revenue-neutral $15-per-ton carbon tax. But perhaps the creation of a vast energy bureaucracy is really the main point of the exercise. After all, a $15 carbon tax will only generate, according to several models, about a 10 percent decrease in CO2 emissions by 2020, which is more than Waxman-Markey will deliver. But it will still be far short of the goal the climate campaigners seek of an 83 percent reduction by 2050, implying that future carbon taxes would have to be much higher. But this also points to the inevitability of turning our policy attention to measures other than carbon suppression, such as geoengineering or "air capture"that is, technical methods of removing carbon content from the air.
Of course, even these issues are not slam-dunks to be passed by both houses. On the N.S.A., there is a potent set of forces on the other side, including Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham, who are intent not to damage national security by hampering intelligence collection. And on both issues, it is not at all clear that the House Republican leaders see these issues in the same way, or would be inclined to give them priority or floor time.
The two questions most highlighted in their first poll, Climate Change in the American Mind, were:
Ironically, a report of the National Academies just yesterday found that, Despite extensive investment in nanotechnology and increasing commercialization over the last decade, insufficient understanding remains about the environmental, health, and safety aspects of nanomaterials.
Even though they have been working on their PhDs for almost five years at OSU, and have about a year to go, Joshua has been forbidden access to the equipment he built for his PhD work, while Bethany has been told she will be dismissed from school. Matthew, who turned down a nearly "full ride" from MIT to go to OSU, has been there for two years but now is waiting for the ax to fall on his work, and on his thesis professor, Dr. Jack Higginbotham, who came to the students' defense.
First, some background. Pielke, a professor at the University of Colorado since 2001, holds degrees in mathematics, public policy, and political science. He has authored or co-authored seven books. He has won several awards for his academic work. For about two decades, he was a prolific writer and speaker on climate issues. In 2013, he testified before Congress and declared that there is "exceedingly little scientific support for claims found in the media and political debate that hurricanes, tornadoes, floods and drought have increased in frequency or intensity on climate timescales either in the United States or globally." During that same testimony, he said that global weather-related losses have not increased since 1990 as a proportion of GDP. He went on, saying that there were also no observable increases in floods, tornadoes, or droughts.
There are many factors to cause the climate changes particularly in regional and local scales. Considering only greenhouse gases is nonsense and harmful.
Russian energy officials seek to expand their access to natural gas supplies in Africa.
Bernhard et al . report that the protist they studied "is able to survive 10-14-day exposure to elevated CO 2 as high as 200,000 ppm." In fact, they say that "both ATP data and microscopic examination indicate that considerable populations of A. laticollaris survived exposure to all experimental treatments of elevated CO 2 , even both replicates of the 200,000-ppm CO 2 experiments ." And they found that "at least three specimens reproduced during exposure to either 90,000 ppm or 200,000 ppm CO 2 ," while "such reproduction was observed only once in an atmospheric treatment." What it means
In the Great Depression, President Herbert Hoover raised marginal tax rates to 63%, and went on a deficit spending binge. Similarly, Obama has proposed higher marginal tax rates, which will produce another $1.9 trillion in tax increases.
In response to the President's Climate Action Plan, Senator Lisa Murkowski (AK-R) was talking about Obama's African tour when she quipped: "I encourage him to note what life looks like in parts of the continent where people do not haveor cannot affordaccess to energy."
In the afternoon, the experimenters released lots of details officially (including a relevant preprint ) and I added this paragraph and the picture above which I find rather amazing. Does the picture convince you that the three colorful babes don't belong among the rank-and-file blue background lads but instead, they must belong to a separate hyperbola-like curve?
Nationwide, 319 coal-fueled power plants totaling 42,895 megawatts (13% of the nation's coal fleet and enough for 40 million homes and small businesses) are already slated to close, the Sierra Club joyfully proclaimed. Illinois families and businesses could pay 20% more for electricity by 2014, the Chicago Tribune reports. Chicago public schools may have to find an extra $2.7 million a year to keep the lights and heat on and computers running.
Yep, you read that correctly. The tropical hotspot trends are lower than the global atmospheric trend and the global surface trend - a magnificent and spectacular fail of IPCC climate "science."
Given the studies already done on wind energys deleterious impact on wildlife, combined with the energy sprawl that will come with the industrys continuing expansion, it is virtually certain that as the wind sector adds more turbines, more federally protected wildlife including more bald eagles, an animal that has been on the Great Seal of the United States since 1782 ??? will be killed. And thanks to the production tax credit, taxpayers will be subsidizing the slaughter.
The hate and the disdain don't spring from anything as trivial as pique. Historically, Jacksonian America has been the enemy of many of what President Obama, rightly, sees as some of America's most important advances. Jacksonian sentiment embraces a concept of the United States as a folk community and, over time, that folk community was generally construed as whites only. Lynch law and Jim Crow were manifestations of Jacksonian communalism, and there are few examples of race, religious or ethnic prejudice in which Jacksonian America hasn't indulged. Jacksonians have come a long way on race, but they will never move far enough and fast enough for liberal opinion; liberals are moving too, and are becoming angrier and more exacting regardless of Jacksonian progress.
No wonder their projections are so often so far removed from reality
After the tour, we were treated to a lovely dinner in an equally eccentric and equally impressive family dining hall in the private section of the castle. The evening had turned cold, and Ill tell you, the castle would be a nightmare to heat. Its not much more than a drafty pile of stones, and in this case the stone walls are about four foot thick. Well, except for the walls on the vulnerable north side, which Sir Humphry said were built out from 8 foot to 20 foot thick in the early 1500s, to protect against cannon fire. Thats great for cannon fire ... but not for heating fires, build a fireplace on one side of those walls and see how long it takes for the other side to get warm ... brrr.
If you live in any state except Texas (where the requirements are optional), you MUST purchase workers compensation insurance for your employees. As noted above, some may be exempt from coverage (owners, senior officers, some contractors) but if you have any paid workers at all, you will likely need a workers comp. policy. In most states, you will call a broker, though in a few, like Washington, Wyoming, Ohio, W. Virginia and N. Dakota, you will call the state workers comp office because there are no private carriers allowed to compete with the monopoly state fund. In other states, like Arizona, there is a state fund but it competes with private carriers.
The contributions of Thornthwaite to practical applications of climate were summarized in a 1996 biography, The Genius of C. Warren Thornthwaite, climatologist-geographer.?
I was a casual non-believer of this hypothesis because of the mere improbability of such an Earth state, Bao said. There was nothing rational or logic in that belief for me, of course. I remember I even told my job interviewers back in 2000 that one of my future research plans was to prove that the Snowball Earth hypothesis was wrong.
Climate change is an issue that needs to be discussed thoughtfully and objectively. Unfortunately, claims that distort the facts hinder the legitimate evaluation of policy options. The rhetoric has driven some policymakers toward costly regulations and policies that will harm hardworking American families and do little to decrease global carbon emissions. The Obama administration?s decision to delay, and possibly deny, the Keystone XL pipeline is a prime example.
Ms. Macfarlane: I am not going to get into a discussion on this issue. It has been settled science for years, supported by an overwhelming consensus of scientists. I am not going to discuss it.
This post provides an initial look at climate model simulations of the top of the atmosphere (TOA) energy budget and its three components. It includes the outputs of the climate models stored in the CMIP5 archive (used by the IPCC for the 5 th Assessment Report).
In my review of their book four years ago, I noted: "By the end it becomes clear that Nordhaus and Shellenberger aren't just trying to save environmentalism; they are trying to save liberalism, which they consider nearly as intellectually dead as environmentalism." Lately this ambition has taken wing, with their modest think tank, the Breakthrough Institute (based in Oakland, Calif.), sponsoring a conference called "Modernizing Liberalism" and launching the quarterly Breakthrough Journal. I attended the conference as the conservative provocateur; it seemed to be concentrated wholly on ideas, with no grubby calculations about how to keep liberal interest groups happy.
Are politicians born stupid or do they develop that skill in Law School?
It's troubling that American business would buy into this global industrial policy scheme, lining up to pledge non-hostility to Kyoto in return for the prospect of legislation that might give them relief from Kyoto's potentially massive costs.
Instead, Burger and Cubasch have simply analyzed the sensitivity of the procedure to the introduction of subjective, and erroneous alterations. Their results are consequently statistically meaningless. This view was recently endorsed by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences in their report "Surface Temperature Reconstructions for the Last 2000 Years" which specifically took note of the inappropriateness of the putative significance estimation procedures used by Cubasch and collaborators in their recent work .
Big jumps? Ive been studying global warming for quite a while and never before has a climate scientist mentioned periods of no warming followed and preceded by big jumps in global temperatures. The first thing that should enter anyones mind after reading that is: what caused the big jumps in global surface temperatures? Dr. Trenberth identified when they happened: before 1977, around 1986/87, and after 1996. But Dr. Trenberth failed to explain them. On the other hand, for four years, I have been presenting and discussing the natural, not anthropogenic, causes of those big jumps. Thats right, Dr. Trenberth admitted to periods of no warming between big jumps, and the data show the big jumps are caused naturally. One might think that undermines the hypothesis that manmade greenhouse gases caused most of the global warming over the last 3 decades. I dont believe that was Dr. Trenberths intent with his article, but as you will see, thats what it suggests.
The windpark was just completed and is operated by energy giant EnBW .
???If temperatures go up, there is going to be more evaporation, and that will produce more clouds,?? Professor Lambeck said. ???That could produce a negative feedback, but to quantify that is a very difficult thing.
40% of the about 0.5 0C warming between 1715 and 1970 is accounted by direct solar forcing, the remainder by indirect solar forcing in which the GCR flux plays an important role.
In other words, the NSF would like us to believe that the theory that increasing ocean acidification will slow coral calcification rates is correct, even though it is not readily observed because other confounding variables are involved. However, given time, these other confounding variables could be overwhelmed by the increasing acidification.
Flanagan and Syed conclude that "in the absence of fire or other major disturbance, significant net carbon sequestration could continue for decades at this site and help to reduce the positive feedback of climate change on increasing atmospheric CO 2 concentration."
The price of liberty is eternal vigilance. Today, on energy security issues, we unfortunately have less to worry about from external enemies, than from our own elitist politicians, bureaucrats and pressure groups. In this critical election season, let us hope enough voters step up to defend our liberties, jobs, civil rights and children's future.
During his first inaugural address, in the depths of the Great Depression, President Franklin Roosevelt told the American people, "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance."
Using a touch of humor and a three-card monte theme, Morano likens the crisis marketing to a sleight of hand; a Climate Hustle. He says: "when the people pushing you to get into the game, the ones predicting a calamitous future due to global warming, don't show their cards, it is a hustle." The film shows the cards so the viewers can decide if "they are playing it straight or if you are being hustled."
TITLE: The Past, Present and Future of the El Nino/Southern Oscillation
The citizens seem to prefer some sort of an incinerator. However, designing an incinerator/thermal oxidizer that can safely feed the propellent granules and maintain stable temperatures, get one on site and get the necessary approvals seems like a tall order in, now, less than 90 days. In my opinion, the EPA has not really gotten away from the open burning plan. It has just allowed a delay to remove some of the heat they are taking.
This is awfully tendentious, since he takes it as a given that Arizona's effort to take some responsibility for a problem is best understood as "irresponsible"as if continuing to do nothing at the local level while too little is done at the federal level would be more responsible. Of course, "irresponsible" is lavish praise compared with the charges of "apartheid" and "Nazi" coming from some opponents of the law, including Los Angeles cardinal Roger Mahony.
New research results suggest that magma sitting 4-5 kilometers beneath the surface of Oregons Mount Hood has been stored in near-solid conditions for thousands of years. The time it takes to liquefy and potentially erupt, however, is surprisingly shortperhaps as little as a couple of months.
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h/t The Register ??? the UK MET Office has published a report which suggests the pause in global temperatures might continue for many years to come. Or the pause might not continue. They??re not really sure.
NIWAs analysis of measured temperatures uses internationally accepted techniques, including making adjustments for changes such as movement of measurement sites. For example, in Wellington, early temperature measurements were made near sea level, but in 1928 the measurement site was moved from Thorndon (3 metres above sea level) to Kelburn (125 m above sea level). The Kelburn site is on average 0.8C cooler than Thorndon, because of the extra height above sea level.
Click here to hear Fred Smith's response to the AGs.
According to our result, the rapid warming during 1970-1990 contains a large fraction of unpredictable natural variability due to the AO. The subsequent period of 1990-2010 indicates a clear trend of the AO to be negative. The global warming has been stopped by natural variability superimposed on the gentle anthropogenic global warming. The important point is that the IPCC models have been tuned perfectly to fit the rapid warming during 1970-1990 by means of the ice-albedo feedback (anthropogenic forcing) which is not actually observed. IPCC models are justified with this wrong scientific basis and are applied to project the future global warming for 100 years in the future. Hence, we warn that the IPCC models overestimate the warming trend due to the mislead Arctic Oscillation.
giving students more time to make up incomplete assignments while
This is a curious move of the goalposts, since the IPCC claims a bogus 95% confidence that "most" of the warming since 1950 is anthropogenic on the basis of temperature rise since 1950 , not on the basis of sea level rise, and thus opposite to the claims of this new paper. In addition, this new paper claims climate models predict allegedly anthropogenic "sea level rise signals can arise as early as 2020 over half the global ocean regions." If that's the case, there's a lot of sea level rise catching up to do, since global sea levels have been naturally rising for ~20,000 years and have decelerated over the past 8,000 years , decelerated over the 20th century , decelerated 31% since 2002 and decelerated 44% since 2004 to less than 7 inches per century. There is no evidence of an acceleration of sea level rise , and therefore no evidence of any effect of mankind on sea levels. Sea level rise is primarily a local phenomenon related to land subsidence, not CO2 levels.