Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
This tactic will allow developed nations to sell binding targets to the public. Nature concludes, "Their greatest opportunity is that a growing sense of crisis over global warming will focus minds on the need to rethink our use of energy and other resources, and to accept the pain that this will inevitably require."
In other words, increasing atmospheric CO2 is not causing global temperature to rise; instead the natural cyclic increase in global temperature is causing global CO2 to rise. The reason that global CO2 levels rise and fall in response to the global temperature is because cold water is capable of retaining more CO2 than warm water. That is why carbonated beverages loose their carbonation, or CO2, when stored in a warm environment. We store our carbonated soft drinks, wine, and beer in a cool place to prevent them from loosing their fizz, which is a feature of their carbonation, or CO2 content. The earth is currently warming as a result of the natural Ice Age cycle, and as the oceans get warmer, they release increasing amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere.
So don't think President Obama has softened his position since 2009, when he attempted to ram a cap-and-trade bill through Congress that would have required draconian cuts in carbon dioxide emissions and caused electricity rates to skyrocket. Apparently he still believes that droughts, floods, and wildfires can be banished by legislative fiat that he can set the global thermostat by substituting unreliable wind and solar power for coal and oil.
Because non-CO 2 -forceced wetter and drier conditions than those of the present have occurred in this region in the past, such conditions can be expected to naturally recur in the future.?? Yet just as soon as the precipitation balance begins to tip towards one extreme or the other, you can count on there being a number of climate alarmists who will be all too eager to attribute the change to the ongoing rise in the air's CO 2 content, even when such attribution is clearly unwarranted. Reviewed 20 July 2005
Abbott promised to repeal Labor's carbon tax. Norway's Ema Solberg called for business-friendly reforms to produce the economic growth necessary for an expensive welfare state.
I've spent a little time with this report. Here are my observations. Feel free to forward and cite this posting, I?ll get it up on Heartland?s Freedom Pub momentarily. I?ll appreciate comments on whether I got this right.
What is actually going on is the exact opposite of the Guardians claims. Arctic sea ice is melting very slowly, and is nearing a mid-summer high for the past decade.
Irvine, Calif. Two new UC Irvine papers reach markedly different conclusions about why methane, a highly potent greenhouse gas, unexpectedly leveled off near the end of the 20th century. They appear today in the journal Nature.
It is now estimated that some 50,000 executions took place across Europe.
The Elsner paper relies on far too short a period to draw any meaningful conclusions.
The London Daily Mail published a chart that, as they say, reveals how 95 % certain estimates of the Earth heating up were a spectacular miscalculation. Comparing actual temperatures against the IPCCs 95% certainty projections, the lines track closely until recent years, at which point the line representing the observed temperatures is about to crash out of the boundaries of the lowest projections. They were supposed to climb sharply after 1990.
Earlier this year, CEI filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the State Department as part of its inquiry into developing a successor regime to the Kyoto Protocol on global warming. For example, CEI hopes to obtain records shedding light on the Global Climate Fund (GCF) that then-Secretary Hillary Clinton proposed as a means to rescue the December 2009 Copenhagen "climate talks" from collapse, and why and how the administration decided to claim that an obvious treaty isn't a treaty, after all.
Another tiny factor that plays a role in our climate is the sun, believe it or not. Low solar activity has shown to be strongly correlated with cold periods on this planet. Currently, contrary to what was earlier expected by NASA, cycle 24 is turning out to be one of surprisingly low activity. That bodes ill for more cooling.
Our findings in this report ratify a longstanding and broadly-held belief that parts of the NSR program can and should be improved. For example, we conclude above that changes to NSR that add to the clarity and certainty of the scope of the routine maintenance exclusion will improve the program by reducing the unintended consequences of discouraging worthwhile projects that are in fact outside the scope of NSR.43
According to Teris own website, Dr Pachauri and his wife are on the jury panel for the 2010 awards. Dr Pachauri has been on the jury panel for the awards in previous years.
The year as a whole is currently running as the second coldest since 1996, beaten only by the exceptionally cold year of 2010. Temperatures so far in December are 2 degrees below normal, and the Met Office are forecasting that this will continue for the foreseeable future.
Kevin Rudd was fired and Julia Gillard took his job.
Your dad's job is to try to stop the government making laws to reduce Australia's carbon pollution. He is paid a lot of money to do that by big companies who do not want to own up to the fact that their pollution is changing the world's climate in very harmful ways.
A directive took effect this week ordering wind farms with a capacity of 10 megawatts or more to forecast their generation in 15-minute blocks for the following day. Missing estimates by more than 30 percent will incur penalties. Forecasting at 15-minute intervals is very challenging, and could cost a 100-megawatt farm an estimated 250 million rupees ($4.2 million) a year, Tata Power said in an e-mailed response to questions. Developers will see this as a further handicap and penalties will jeopardize the industrys growth, the nations second-biggest developer said.
?This century is special in the Earth?s history. It is the first when one species ? ours ? has the planet?s future in its hands,? reports the AFP news agency. ?We?ve invented a new geological era: the Anthropocene.?, he stated.
Larsen et al. performed multiple analysis of sediment cores of an Iceland glacial lake. The analysis clearly documents the robust climate change during the periods of the Dark Ages,the Medieval Warming and the Little Ice Age. The empirical evidence points to the extreme warmth of Iceland's climate during the MWP and the extreme cold of the LIA.
Principal component analysis of the weather station data produces results similar to those of the satellite data analysis, yielding three separable principal components. We therefore used the RegEM algorithm with a cut-off parameter k=3. A disadvantage of excluding higher-order terms (k>3) is that this fails to fully capture the variance in the Antarctic Peninsula region.Weaccept this tradeoff because the Peninsula is already the best-observed region of the Antarctic.
As Adam Smith expressed it in his earlier book, The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759):
These maps and graphs make it clear just how brazen the fraud of the Hockey Stick is.
As stated earlier, the average surface temperature over the last hundred years has increased by about 0.5 C. Much of the 0.5 C warming occurred early in the 20th century, before the major increase in greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, so most of the 0.5 C warming must have resulted from natural factors of climate change. The early 20th century warming could not have been caused by human-made greenhouse gases.
Green power was replaced by coal and oil. Carbon energy powered factories, mills, pumps, ships, trains, and smelters; and cars, trucks and tractors replaced the work-horses. The result was a green revolution forests began to regrow and vast areas of crop-land used for horse feed were released to produce food for humans. Poverty declined and population soared.
Currently, the DOE program is a simple voluntary reporting program with no regulatory significance. But, says Lewis, writing for Tech Central Station (September 10, 2002), the addition of the awarding of credits to companies that report greenhouse gas reductions will corrupt the "politics of U.S. energy policy" and "grow the greenhouse lobby."
hurricane, tornado, flood and drought disaster frequencies have not increased globally, or in the U.S. ...( Ramez
However, this potential increase is just 3% of an average household's annual $2,912 gasoline outlay. That's $87 a year or $1.68 a week half the price of one Starbucks Latte Grande.
No. 84 Climate Change 95: An Appraisal (summary)
Another famous place is the Tuvalu Islands, which are supposed to soon disappear ?? There we have a tide gauge record, a variograph record, from 1978, so it??s 30 years. And again ?? absolutely no trend, no rise.
Greece, aiming to stave off a fresh energy crisis, plans to support its main electricity market operator through a temporary tax on renewable power producers and by extending an emergency loan, a senior official said on Friday. The electricity system came close to collapse in June when market operator LAGHE was overwhelmed by subsidies it pays to green power producers as part of efforts to bolster solar energy. Greece has slashed the guaranteed feed-in prices it pays to some solar operators and is no longer approving permits for their installation. Harry Papachristou, Reuters, 28 September 2012 ( http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/09/28/us-greece-interview-idUSBRE88R0UQ20120928 )
An Argyll grandmother is headed to Geneva to obtain a ruling on whether Government and planning authorities are overstepping their powers and failing to perform legally binding duties to citizens in their rush to build windfarms.
Note that not only can the Medieval Warm Period be seen, around 1000 years ago and the depths of the Little Ice Age around 500 years ago, but also the Dark Ages cold period (1700 years BP) and the Roman Warm period (around 2000 years BP) and other warm periods at 2500 and 3000 years BP.
The scale of global warming was exaggerated due to temperature distortions for Russia accounting for 12.5% of the world??s land mass. The IEA said it was necessary to recalculate all global-temperature data in order to assess the scale of such exaggeration.
The left has been scheming to transform health care in America ever since and came close to achieving its goal with passage of the Affordable Care Act, a.k.a. Obamacare, in 2010. Obamacare was designed to fail it simply could never deliver on its promises of preserving choice of private insurance coverage while also controlling spending and to destroy the private health care system in the process, leaving the path clear for single-payer or nationalized health care.
The prospect for increasing domestic fossil fuel production is much brighter for natural gas than conventional oil. Hydraulic fracturing, a new technique for extracting natural gas from shale rocks, led the Potential Gas Committee to increase their estimate of American natural gas reserves by 35% over the past couple of years. A more recent private sector report argues that shale gas more than doubles America's natural gas reserves.
Maybe the IPCC's Modelers Should Try to Simulate Earth's Oceans
The researcher - who hails from the Active Cavity Radiometer Solar Irradiance Monitor Laboratory and Duke University at Durham, North Carolina (USA) - states that by not properly reconstructing the 20-year and 60-year natural cycles found in earth's surface temperature record, "the IPCC GCMs have seriously overestimated the magnitude of the anthropogenic contribution to the recent global warming." And as a result, with respect to the future, he says that whereas the IPCC models project a warming of 1.0-3.6??C by the end of the current century, his model suggests a global warming in the range of 0.3-1.2??C by 2100, which is considerably more in line with the real -world and observation -based assessments of earth's climate sensitivity that were empirically derived several years ago by Idso (1998) and more recently by Lindzen and Choi (2009, 2011).
Figure 4. Projection of climate changes of the last century and past 500 years into the future. The black curve is temperature variation from 1900 to 2009; the red line is the IPCC projected warming from the IPCC website in 2000; the blue curves are several possible projections of climate change to 2040+ based on past global cooling periods (1945-1977; 1880 to 1915; and 1790 to 1820). The lack of sun spots during the past solar cycle has surpassed all records since the Dalton Minimum and some solar physicists have suggested we may be headed for a Dalton or Maunder type mimimum with severe cooling.
Climate Astrology: "No matter what the weather is like, it always turns out to be exactly the kind of weather we should expect if human activity were causing global temps to rise' "The natural sciences have terms for that kind of hypothesis. "Unfalsifiable' is one of them. "Unscientific' is another. An idea may be true, but if it is incapable of being "falsified' or proven wrong, then whatever else that idea is, it certainly isn't science.'
RSS satellite temperatures show that by 2008, US temperatures had cooled down below what they were during all of the non-volcano years of the 1980s and 1990s.
Obama said his would be the most transparent administration in history. But transparency quickly took a back seat to his radical climate change, renewable energy and other plans to fundamentally transform the United States. EPA practices epitomize what goes on throughout his Executive Branch, why our economy is growing at 0.2% and what congressional Democrats are apparently determined to perpetuate.
Animation 1 provides the sea surface height anomalies and the depth-averaged temperature anomalies for the top 300 meters (T300) side by side. Again, please click on the animations to enlarge them.
The Guardian tells us that Bjorn Lomborg, ?The world?s most high-profile climate change sceptic is to declare that global warming is ?undoubtedly one of the chief concerns facing the world today? and ?a challenge humanity must confront?, in an apparent U-turn that will give a huge boost to the embattled environmental lobby.? The problem is it is completely false. His message on climate in his new book is exactly the same as it has been all along.
6. Empirical evidence shows that Earth is currently "greening" significantly due to additional CO2 and a modest warming.
HOW THE BASIC ANTHROPOGENIC GLOBAL WARMING MYTH IS PORTRAYED
Most, though not all, models overestimate the observed warming trend in the tropical troposphere over the last 30 years, and tend to underestimate the long-term lower stratospheric cooling trend. {9.4.1, Box 9.2, Figure 9.8}
Contrary to what environmentalist organizations would like the public to believe, a vote to check President Barack Obama's overweening EPA is not a vote against children's health. Rather, the opposite is true. EPA's job-killing regulatory agenda is anathema to the health and well-being of Americans, young and old. By reining in this rogue agency, Congress could unleash wealth creation that has been stifled by EPA's unjustifiable intrusions. Wealth creation, in turn, will produce the means by which parents can care for their children, properly and fully.
Democratic Platform Calls for End to Fossil Fuels, Prosecuting Climate Skeptics
Jack Dini, Livermore, CA, writes a monthly column on science and environmental issues for Plating & Surface Finishing and also writes for other publications. He is the author of Challenging Environmental Mythology (2003).
Ralph Nader, commenting on the long queues outside Moscow shops during his 1990 visit. It's reassuring that Nader appears to misunderstand Communism as badly as he misunderstands capitalism.
After six months of differential CO 2 treatment, short-term exposure of ambiently-grown plants to an atmospheric CO 2 concentration of 700 ppm increased their photosynthetic rates by approximately 35 and 20% for the grasses and legumes, respectively. However, the long-term photosynthetic responses of most plants grown and measured at atmospheric CO 2 concentrations of 700 ppm were not significantly different from those of control plants grown at ambient CO 2 , indicating that photosynthetic acclimation had occurred in these species. Nevertheless, atmospheric CO 2 enrichment significantly reduced the stomatal conductances of all species in both the short- and long-term, enabling them to maintain significant CO 2 -induced increases in plant water-use efficiency throughout the entire experiment.
There is no prayer, but there are self-sacrificing rituals that are not particularly useful, such as recycling. Recycling paper to save trees, for example, makes no sense since the effect will be to reduce the number of trees planted in the long run.
But what are they proposing? Barack Obama advocates further government subsidy and regulation of a health-care system already drowning in both.
Polar Ice Check - Still a lot of ice up there Watts Up With That? In most years, there are open waters in the area north of the archipelago in July month. Studies from this year however show that the area is covered by ice, the Meteorological Institute writes in a press release. In mid-July, the research vessel Lance and the Swedish ship MV Stockholm got stuck in ice in the area and needed help from the Norwegian Coast Guard to get loose. The ice findings from the area spurred surprise among the researchers, many of whom expect the very North Pole to be ice-free by September this year.
Unfortunately for the modelers, they underestimated the warming of the surface of the extratropical North Atlantic (Figure 10), and overestimated the warming in the extratropical North Pacific (Figure 11), though the differences are not badcompared to whatweve seen elsewhere.
The cold winters are likely to continue and so are the floods for the next 20-30 years as the 60 year planetary climate cycle goes into its cold phase. We are having the winters like the previous cold cycle 30 years ago. Yet Environment Canada only talks about continuing global warming . on their web page .There is absolutely nothing about possible global cooling or warning to the Canadian public and businesses about possible flooding again, crop losses, infrastructure disruptions, etc from the pending weather.
Referring to their Figure 2, the climate models clearly underestimated the early 20 th Century warming, from about 1910 to the early 1940s. The models then clearly missed the cooling that took place in the 1940s but then overestimated the cooling in the 1950s and 60sso much so that Risbey et al. (2014) decided to erase the full extent of the modeled cooling rates during that period by limiting the range of the y-axis in the graph. (This time climate scientists are hiding the decline in the models.) Then theres the recent warming period. Theres one reason and one reason only why the models appear to perform well during the recent warming period, seeming to run along the mid-range of the model spread from about 1970 to the late 1990s. And that reason is, the models were tuned to that period. Now, since the late 1990s, the models are once again diverging from the data, because they are not in-phase with the real world.
SM: I'd like to see the United States abolish the income tax system entirely and go toward a consumption-oriented tax that would be paid at the cash register when you buy things, not by having the government compelling you to fill out 1040 forms and all sorts of other invasive types of information. So I'd like to see a national sales tax replace the income tax. I worry a little bit that Republicans could face some tough elections in the next couple years if the economy doesn't turn around. And there's no reason to think that the economy's going to because of this tax cut. Most of the tax cut doesn't even happen until 2005, 2006. My colleague David Keating likes to say that this would be a great tax cut if we were living in 2008.
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As Spykman defined it, the Rimland "functions as a vast buffer zone of conflict between sea power and land power. Looking in both directions, it must function amphibiously and defend itself on land and sea." On this geopolitical foundation laid by Spykman, Kennan simply built a chronopolitical strategy of containment, which would pay off 50 years later (much later than initially anticipated by Kennan).
So how do we judge Barack Obama? First of all, he did start early and
CRA Attempts to Reconstruct Clinton Administration Cost Estimates
It should come as no surprise that the models did overestimate the warming of the sea surface temperatures of the tropical oceans over the past 32+ years. See Figure 7. In fact, the models overestimated the warming by a wide margin. The data indicate the sea surface temperatures of the tropical oceans warmed at a not-very-alarming rate of 0.06 deg C/decade, while the models indicate that, if the surfaces of the tropical oceans were warmed by manmade greenhouse gases, they should have warmed at 3 times that rate, at 0.19 deg C/decade. For 46% of the surface of the global oceans (about 33% of the surface of the planet), the models tripled the observed warming rate.
Right. Hudson Bay is ice-free for several months every summer
We used to call it playing outside, now it has to be called "free range parenting" just to stop the cops from taking your kids away - except that doesn't work does it.
The maneuver failed: Rossi lost again, this time by nearly 200,000 votes. His tactics show the hardships some Republicans underwent in 2008. If it wasn't Rossi playing name games in the upper Northwest, it was GOP candidates such as Minnesota Senator Norm Coleman avoiding his party's nomineein the same state that was home to the 2008 Republican National Convention. As for that nominee, John McCain's last campaign appearance with an unpopular George W. Bush occurred in late May, a good five months before America voted.
At the heart of environmentalism and its "save the Earth" agenda is the reduction, if not the elimination, of humans from planet Earth.
DCC trialling and testing should be completed by August 2013, at which point it will become obligatory for domestic customers.
stunt the growth of the private sector economy. But most of themnational
Richard B. Stewart is University Professor and Emily Kempin Professor of Law at New York University. Jonathan B. Wiener is professor of law, professor of environmental policy, and faculty director of the Duke Center for Environmental Solutions at Duke University and University Fellow at Resources for the Future.
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since the 1970s), if the weighting of solar forcing was stronger in the models,
For example, 2,000-year-old bristlecone pine trees now living on a mountaintop in Nevada can have a core extracted (without harm to the tree) and the most recent annual rings compared to meteorological records of the area dating back about a century. Once a century of tree rings can be calibrated to local temperature and rainfall records, and the details of how the rings change with the changing conditions, the process can be reversed and the rest of the tree ring record can be deciphered to reveal what sort of rainfall and temperature patterns were present for 2,000 years.
We've known that Marc Morano was a brave man for some time, but he proved it again last night at the Society of Environmental Journalists' conference here in Burlington. He was the lone critic on a panel about the media and global warming entitled "And Now a Word from Our Critics..." Not only was he the only critic of the mainstream reportage of climate change on the five-member panel, but I seemed to be one of the only people in the packed ballroom not actively hostile to his point of view.
Recall that the Kyoto Protocol set limits on 37 industrialized countries' emissions of greenhouse gases, chiefly carbon dioxide. Signatory governments agreed to reduce their emissions by at least 5 percent below 1990 levels by 2008 to 2012.
Republican plans Senate bill to put brakes on E15 approval