Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
As we ridottida cradle of Mediterranean civilization, in the realm of paradoxes. We are forced to choose between the Northern League and the Ndrangheta because everyone else is against us.
Of this latter warming, they say that it "concurs with distinct continental-scale warming, consistently reaching unprecedented maximum temperatures after ~1990 AD." Their use of the word "unprecedented," however, is a bit misleading; for they subsequently state that "the SST increase over the last three decades does not, or not 'yet', appear unusual compared to the entire 0-2.4 ka record," and that "the warming trend over the second half of the 20th century has not yet reverted the late Holocene millennial-scale cooling." In fact, their data clearly indicate that the peak temperature of the Medieval Warm Period was approximately 2.2C greater than the peak temperature of the late 20th century, and that the peak temperature of the Roman Warm Period was about 2.7C greater than that of the late 20th century.
Now consider what I wrote in that introductory portion from my upcoming book: Its very obvious why the change in the ocean heat content is very important to the hypothesis of human-induced global warming. If the oceans could be shown to have warmed naturally, then the impacts of manmade greenhouse gases are much smaller than claimed by climate scientists.
I am pleased that my testimony was referred to in the Republican comment on the Proposed Endangerment and Cause or Contribute Findings for Greenhouse Gases Under the Clean Air Act issued by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA ).
What potential consequences will result now that the Supreme Court announced in October that it will review the June 2012 D.C. Circuit of Appeals decision in Coalition for Responsible Regulation v. EPA, which upheld four of the agency's main greenhouse gas rulings. In the new case, Utility Air Regulatory Group v. EPA, the Court will limit its review to one question: "Whether EPA permissibly determined that greenhouse gas emissions from new motor vehicles triggered requirements under the Clean Air Act for stationary sources that emit greenhouse gases."
Central Puget Sound residents do not frequently think about living in a rain shadow, like their friends in Sequim and Port Townsend. But more frequently that you might expect, Seattle IS in a rain shadow and this will happen later today.
"The District of Columbia is becoming the first U.S. jurisdiction to allow Internet gambling, trying to raise millions of dollars from the habits of online poker buffs and acting ahead of traditional gambling meccas like New Jersey and Nevada."
So first and foremost, perhaps you ought to start running an education campaign on how to be self reliant? Add in some nice old fashioned free markets and the place would be humming with power generation and clean up crews. Think with a public announcement that for 3 months anyone could do business in those areas without a license might encourage a few thousand unemployed folks with gloves, shovels and pickup trucks to drive in with a truck bed full of generators, gasoline, and stoves /food?
Why should you be interested? The sea surface temperature record indicates El Nio and La Nia events are responsible for the warming of global sea surface temperature anomalies over the past 30 years, not manmade greenhouse gases. Ive searched sea surface temperature records for more than 4 years, and I can find no evidence of an anthropogenic greenhouse gas signal. That is, the warming of the global oceans has been caused by Mother Nature, not anthropogenic greenhouse gases.
(Again, let me stress that I am describing the impacts on projected global temperatures. There is growing evidence that actual global temperatures are not evolving the way projections indicate that they should. So, the degree to which these temperature projections described above reflect what really will happen in the future, is far from certain.)
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Editorial Director Ivan Osorio on the problems with the proposed "card check" rules:
Gia Dvali: 100 quintillion new particle species
EU members states have spent about ?600 billion ($882bn) on renewable energy projects since 2005, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance. Germany?s green energy transition alone may cost consumers up to ?1 trillion by 2030, the German government recently warned.
But as several researchers have pointed out, the higher costs resulting from coastal disasters such as tidal surges and hurricanes are not primarily due to environmental change, but from the increased property values found on coastlines and in forest areas. And that clustering of increased property value on coastlines is enabled by state and federal governments through a variety of storm and flood insurance subsidies.
The rate of sea level rise varies form place to place and depends on a lot of factors. Changes in ice inventories, currents, and geological effects, such as glacial isostatic adjustment all contribute and are worthy of study and measurement. But they should no be used to foster panic for political ends.
Distress of the People Described as Exceeding That Caused by the Great Famine in India.
Record low ice extent, record heat, record thin ice, hottest year ever. No doubt all the ice will be gone this summer.
Money Week had looked at Solar Panels back in February:
Geoengineering to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere was not considered in the study. "Ideas about taking the carbon dioxide away after the world puts it in have been proposed, but right now those are very speculative," said Solomon.
The devastating Russian heatwave and Pakistan floods are caused by one unusual weather pattern the static jet stream, meteorologists say. In the past month, a "blocking event" has brought the jet stream to a halt, keeping weather patterns stationery over certain countries. But less is known about what triggers this abnormal activity. Glenda Kwek, The Sydney Morning Herald, 12 August 2010
Firstly No one wins anything while the people who slag off at scientists get their denigrating name-calling on the front cover of magazines. That said, Im smiling. Beaming. The man who doesnt know what science is, admits his team is failing. That has to be good. Real scientists everywhere, smile!
The irony is of course that the demonstration that a regional reconstruction is valid takes effort, and needs to be properly documented. That requires a paper in the technical literature and the only way for Briffa et al to now defend themselves against McIntyres accusations is to publish that paper (which one can guarantee will have different results to what McIntyre has thrown together).
This is an optimistic moment in human history. But you could spend a long time listening to America's politicians and not hear this mentioned.
During the election campaign, OSU President Edward Ray and other faculty and administrators improperly used the campus to campaign for DeFazio and against Robinson. Then, almost immediately after the 2010 election, they launched a series of despicable and unprincipled actions designed to ensure that Joshua, Bethany, and Matthew never receive their degrees regardless of their outstanding academics, examinations and research, or the thousands of hours and tens of thousands of dollars they had invested.
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Remember a year ago when few days of July warmth with strong blocking over Greenland had the media abuzz over some melting ?
Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli is investigating the state-funded global warming research of a former University of Virginia professor to see if he defrauded taxpayers; UVA is refusing to cooperate.
The actual sakfrgan frblir same refreshi took on how fast exchange reaction between television ltsastillstnd (carbon dioxide in atmosphere, and surface layer), coupled to a third ltsastillstnd (deep sea) with vsentligen mycketlngre jmviktsinstllning (between the surface layers and deep sea) and larger volume?
These guys want the world to be like a big museum with no living people in it. No, actually they want a bubble, where they dont have to deal with real life and the fact that the air has stuff in it.
Was raw data available elsewhere? (31) Who cares? It is the raw data as used that is required for replication. I think I'm right is saying that Phil Jones' published list of stations used is not complete.
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Finally, it is a fact that people who have saltwater aquariums sometimes add CO2 to the water in order to increase coral growth and to increase plant growth. The truth is CO2 is the most important food for all life on Earth, including marine life. It is the main food for photosynthetic plankton (algae), which in turn is the food for the entire food chain in the sea.
A recent review by the South Australian Research and Development Institute (SARDI) and CSIRO suggested that the line could shift as far as Clare Valley by 2070 under the most extreme climate change scenario. However, it is more likely that the line would stay roughly where it is now or move just north of Jamestown.
On several previous occasions, I??ve observed that there is very strong paleoclimate evidence for the MWP in California ??? even, and perhaps, especially in the bristlecone-foxtail areas. Medieval treelines in California were higher than at present, discussed here and here . Post-medieval lakes have even submerged medieval trees. Miller (2006) discussed here and here estimated great warmth in alpine California as follows:
How vulnerable are we to a changing climate? As vulnerable as weve ever been (apart from having electricity, antibiotics, radio, helicopters, cars, boats, planes, 24 hour satellite coverage, and more scientists and engineers today than existed in the whole of previous history.)
Moreover, Congress has inserted language into the annual Department of Transportation (DOT) appropriations bill since 1995 prohibiting them from changing the current CAFE standards. Environmentalists want to prevent that from happening again this year. Their first move is to push for a "sense of the Senate" resolution that would force the Senate to negotiate with the House over the matter, and to convince the White House that a veto of the DOT appropriations bill would be sustained.
Hansen's scenarios "A" and "B" predicted a temperature anomaly about 1.0 C by 2009. Scenario "C" predicted an anomaly of about 0.7 C by 2009. Since Hansen's publication, atmospheric CO2 levels have tracked Scenario "A" and CH4 levels have tracked Scenario "C". Even though CH4 is a more potent greenhouse gas, it accounts for only a tiny fraction of the greenhouse effect:
Projections by the National Weather Service and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers show that much of the five boroughs will be submerged if another strong hurricane hits New York in the year 2100.
More filler leads to a 30-second clip about how global warming is causing polar bears to drown because they have to swim greater distances to find sea ice on which to rest. The judge ruled however, that the polar bears in question had actually drowned because of a particularly violent storm.
In 1975, the National Academy of Sciences published the graph below showing that the 1930s were very hot in the northern hemisphere, and that there had been a sharp cooling trend since 1940.
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Global sea surface temperatures have warmed over the past 30 years, but there is no evidence the warming was caused by anthropogenic greenhouse gases. No evidence at all.
funny, you need at least two of the following elements:
?Nations must invest $37 trillion in energy technologies by 2030 to stabilize
Islam: Making a True Difference in the World One Body at a Time
In assessing the legal sufficiency of the Dutch government's climate policies, a court might be expected to look to previous cases, if not the settled laws of the Netherlands. Instead, the court offers a long series of policy conclusions including, for example: "the costs of the measures ordered by the court are not unacceptably high," "as a developed country the Netherlands should take the lead," and "it evident that the State has insufficient financial means to realize higher reduction measures." And just for good measure, the court declares that it "adopts an evolutive approach," meaning "the Court is not bound by its previous decisions" because "the interpretation of the rights and freedoms is not fixed but can take account of the social context and changes in society."
There are well-developed criteria for establishing toxicity, Dunn writes, but EPA disregards them.
The Pew Center on Global Climate Change (www.pewclimate.org) has also released a report claiming that temperature rise due to manmade greenhouse gas emissions could occur more rapidly than previously thought. According to the report, the presence of SO2 in the atmosphere serves to cool the planet. But SO2 is regulated to reduce acid rain deposition. As more countries restrict the emission of SO2, temperatures could rise.
"Canada is a sovereign nation and we will develop our resources with appropriate regulations and enforcement to protect the environment," said Paula Caldwell St-Onge. The Consulate General of Canada, St-Onge was in Albuquerque to talk up, and answer questions about, the Keystone pipeline.
clear commitment to the timetable the generals gave President Obama during the
And in an upcoming post, well illustrate how poorly the models simulate daily maximum and minimum temperatures and the difference between them, the diurnal temperature range. I should be publishing that post within the next week.
It's instructive that the opposition to genetic engineering is led by non-scientists.
But if you want to find REALLY bad air...getting close to Beijing levels...head to the Tacoma Tideflats where a startling peak of about 275 was observed. Folks...this is really bad for you.
/s/ James Peacock JSC, Apollo and Shuttle Program Office, 21 years
Europe may have to be buried under a kilometer thick sheet of ice before people wake up to the hoax of global warming.
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Unfortunately, Schmidt and Sherwood seem overconfident in GCMs:
Numerous, abrupt, short-lived warming and cooling episodes, much more intense than recent warming/cooling, occurred during the last Ice Age and in the 10,000 years that followed, none of which could have been caused by changes in atmospheric CO2 because they happened before CO2 began to rise sharply around 1945. This paper documents the geologic evidence for these sudden climate fluctuations, which show s remarkably consistent pattern over decades, centuries, and millennia.
In the case of light-saturated net photosynthesis , they found an actual stimulation provided by the extra 316 ppm of CO 2 that ranged from 31% for cultivar Drysdale to 75% for cultivar Yitpi. In the case of aboveground biomass production , they also found a CO 2 -induced stimulation. In this case, it ranged from 0% for the cultivar H45 to 133% for cultivar Gladius. And in the case of actual grain yield , the six scientists found a CO 2 -induced stimulation that ranged from 0% for cultivar H45 to 98% for cultivar Gladius, with the other five cultivars sprinkled somewhere in between.
In the minds of many of us who are gathered here, the most important question concerninggreenhouse gases is not whether they will produce a recognizable global warming, butwhen will they do so? Probably we take it for granted that, barring some catastrophethat halts or overwhelms the accumulation of carbon dioxide and other constituents, thewarming predicted by theoretical studies will eventually occur. The apparent upward trendof global-average temperature during the most recent century, and the unusually warm anddry weather that has invaded parts of the world during parts of the most recent decade,have led some of us to speculate that the greenhouse warming is already being felt. In thistalk I wish to examine the basis for speculating that the greenhouse effect is not the maincause of what we have been experiencing and, particularly, that the suggested warmingis due to processes purely internal to the atmosphere and its immediate surroundings.
As scientists, Mr. Soon and his co-authors take pride in their ethical standards. Our integrity is our most important asset. We are not unusual; this is true for nearly all scientists.
"Amid questions about its performance and billings, a public relations firm that won a $9-million contract to promote the state's high-speed rail project has resigned, stating that it had not developed a good working relationship with bullet- train officials."
The only sensible precaution that you can take in such a situation is to plan for a continuation of the present climate trend, and recognize and plan also for reasonable bounds of future climate variability. As the temperature trend for ten years now has been one of cooling, since the unusually warm El Nino year of 1998, this requires a precautionary response to cooling rather than warming.
It is perhaps not is absolutely crystal clear how these statements should be interpreted. However LGG to FOLLOWING from Euro Active:
The consensus Cook considered was the standard definition: that Man had caused most post-1950 warming. Even on this weaker definition the true consensus among published scientific papers is now demonstrated to be not 97.1%, as Cook had claimed, but only 0.3%.
When the push for "voluntary" initiatives comes from government, it usually amounts to thinly-veiled hypocrisy. If the government really believes there is a problem worth addressing, why not address it fair and square with policies that apply to everyone? If they do not believe there is a problem requiring intervention, then leave it alone. "Voluntary" programs attempt to straddle the ditch, but the government just ends up falling in. It is an attempt to seem concerned about a problem without actually addressing it, and everyone can see through that game. In the case of global warming, if the government dismisses regulatory intervention but calls for voluntary cutbacks, then agitators on behalf of emission reductions will rightly skewer the government for its hypocrisy. If you think emissions should be cut, cut them. If not, don't waste time with confusing symbolic gestures like voluntary emission reductions.
The "climate change community" went straight into full reality denying mode.
Uninteresting Putz admits the US is cooling. One baby step at a time.
There are also a wide variety of state laws regarding what types of employees qualify for workers' comp benefits. Some states exclude contractors and consultants, volunteer workers, farm workers, domestic servants, and certain other groups. States also enforce different rules about whether part-time employees qualify for benefits.
Paper finds NE Atlantic sea surface temperatures have cooled ~3 C over past 2,400 years
Oh, sorry, it's actually an upper bound on the amount of discrete symmetry. But surely it must be saturated in some sense. ;-)
Gleick, who was forced to step down from the "scientific ethics and integrity" task force of the American Geophysical Union because of his fraud, failed -- the stolen memos revealed nothing untoward or even unexpected about Heartland's operations. But his actions show just how desperate climate scaremongers have become.
The warming and drying that is predicted by climate alarmists to occur in many places would appear to be good news for largemouth bass, as well as for the people who love to fish for them and for many other types of fish, since an increase in temperature generally "stimulates metabolism, and enhances growth rates of fishes," according to Rypel, who cites in this regard the studies of Beitinger and Fitzpatrick (1979) and Brander (1995). References
Tom Pederson, director of British Columbia's Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions, got some cheap laughs at the expense of Rex Murphy and Murphy's journalistic reputation at a University of Victoria panel on climate and the media in April.
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In an effort to gain additional perspective on the issue, McClanahan et al . surveyed the coral reefs of northern Tanzania in 2004/05 with the aim of comparing them over an ~8-year period during a time of increased efforts at fisheries management and the 1998 El Nio Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and Indian Ocean Dipole coral mortality event that caused 45% mortality in northern Tanzania and much of the Indian Ocean.
Another obligation to posterity is not to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs. Federal monetary and housing policies destabilized financial markets in 2008 , entitlement spending imperils Americas very solvency ,carbon taxes or their regulatory equivalentcould inflict huge job and GDP losses by makingaffordable energy costly and scarce, and thegreen crusade against coal mining , hydraulic fracturing , unconventional oil ,and energy exports threatens one of the few bright spots in the economy today.Posterity willnot thank us if policymakers foolishly try to tax, spend, and regulate America back to prosperity.
Paul Driessen is senior policy analyst for the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow ( www.CFACT.org ), author of Eco-Imperialism : Green power Black death , and coauthor of Cracking Big Green : Saving the world from the Save-the-Earth money machine .
The key factor in Asia's underlying instability, then, may not be the perception of China's rise relative to the United States' decline. Rather it may be China's rise relative to Japan's decline. The Chinese economy has now overtaken Japan's. China spends more on defense than does Japan. And within Japan as well as the rest of the region, there is a perception that Japan cannot shake its stagnation.
"According to the Living Planet Report, human demands on natural resources have doubled in under 50 years and are now outstripping what the Earth can provide by more than half; and humanity carries on as it is in use of resources, globally it will need the capacity of two Earths by 2030."
Leading German scientists are now spreading fear among children at schools. Is this the indoctrination part of the Masterplan?
(Received 10 April 2001 / Accepted 4 January 2002)
Technically, that's true. But carbon dioxide the focus of #ClimateAction is not one of those pollutants. Existing Clean Air Act rules aimed directly at safeguarding public health tightly control those pollutants today. One could tighten the rules or accelerate the shift toward natural gas, which emits significant carbon dioxide but little other pollution. But the president's climate agenda goes in a different direction.
When contacted for this column, a spokesperson for As You Sow denied that the group's efforts circumvent science, but one of As You Sow's bread-and-butter tactics is the so-called "bounty hunter provision" of California's Proposition 65, a law notoriously prone to scientific controversy. Proposition 65 requires that consumers be warned about consumer products that contain chemicals that California has decided (often arbitrarily) may cause cancer or reproductive toxicity.
As Vladimir Putin reminded the West in a very Russian way in his Munich speech earlier this year, one state's idea of "projecting stability" is another's idea of "exporting subversion." Enlargement has been a bold move that played a critical (and often underappreciated) role in the successful transition to democracy of the former captive Europe, but for every action there is a reaction, and the gradual enlargement of NATO to the East has been the main cause of Russia's gradual rapprochement with China. A bold move today would be to acknowledge that, for a host of reasons, this process has reached diminishing returns, and that projecting stability should from now on be achieved at less cost through other means, be it security cooperation or global partnerships.