Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
Wind turbines hurt more than birds. On June 16, a Michigan judge agreed with residents who live near the 56-turbine Lake Winds facility and who complained of health problems that began just after the turbines began operating. A lawsuit filed on April 1, 2013 argued that noise, vibrations, and flickering lights emanating from Lake Winds were adversely affecting their health.
But the public is being told otherwise by global-warming alarmists, who in recent years have tried to ramp up the fright factor of their message with claims that an increase in global temperatures will also result in a dramatic increase in heat-related deaths. This motive may have provided the impetus for recent reporting on the climate death map.
Third, that other tide gauges, scattered around Australia as part of the national tidal network, mostly record rates of long-term rise between about 0.5mm and 2.5mm a year with no change in behaviour in the late 20th century that might reflect a human (global warming) influence.
Such intransigence belies the organic industry's and Secretary Vilsack's claim to want peaceful coexistence. After all, coexistence implies willingness for two parties to exist alongside one another. Forbidding the cultivation of biotech plants in such a large area could therefore only be seen as sacrificing the needs of conventional agriculture to the supposed interests of organic growers. More important, it would sacrifice a highly useful technology on the altar of green intolerance while actually causing harm. Genetically engineered crops have proven to be superior to organic in numerous ways that benefit humans and the natural ecosphere.
Massachusetts' Democratic legislative leaders were long reluctant to discuss changing their law while Kennedy was still aliveto do so would acknowledge his impending demise. At the same time, they knew that efforts to reverse the law would highlight their own hypocrisy. But Kennedy transcended the whispers about this problem and confronted it directly, writing a letter to Patrick and the leaders of the state House and Senate asking them to pass a law to provide continuity in the Senate seat in the event of a vacancy. He offered a specific plan, a gubernatorial interim appointment until a special election can be held, with a twist in his request, that the temporary appointee pledge not to run for the seat. Kennedy's letter changed the political dynamic. The change is to be welcomed for much larger reasons.
In recent 12 months, koda saw a big drop in the Chinese, Ukrainian, and especially Russian market but the VW Group has experienced much steeper drops in these markets, anyway.
(Dr. Martin Hertzberg, combustion research scientist)
On that occasion it took 10,000 years for the temperature to rise by 6C. There were mass extinctions, but the timescale gave some plants and animals time to adapt and move north and south to survive. Many species evolved quickly dwarfism being one of the most widespread and successful strategies.
public and for informed decision makers in order to get a) a debate started and
Conservatives often speak in language and propose policies that the working class perceives as threatening. Conservatives celebrate freedom, opportunity, achievement, being our own boss, entrepreneurship. Working-class voters want these things, but in moderation. They know that not everyone can graduate from college or own a business. They want a political and economic system that rewards and supports their modest vision for their own lives, rhetorically and practically. Conservatives must figure out how to reconcile their core principles with working-class desires if they are to form a lasting, stable political coalition.
But, even assuming that the data since 1994 is accurate, we are still only left with a trend of just 18 years. Is Elsner seriously suggesting that reliable trends can be calculated over such a short period of time?
Hilariously, the Telegraph has published an article promoting Stephan Lewandowsky's "conspiracy theorist" paper - you know, the one that surveyed readers at all the main non-sceptic blogs and discovered that sceptics were all conspiracy theorists (see first comment here ).
All kidding aside, I can and have physically demonstrated that the number of M08 proxies passing correlation cannot be stated to be biased toward having an upslope signal, let alone a temperature signal. It is a misnomer, promoted by duped reviewers and a scientific community sporting a lack of diligence and Jim has jumped two feet into the hole. It may not be his fault as the paper is obtusely written with more puzzles than the New York Times, but skepticism should be the core of a good scientist.
Very timely transmission In Our Time on BBC Radio 4, about Lysenkoism, biology Soviet disguised as science but in reality pure propaganda, that Trofim D. Lysenko, Stalin's agricultural consultant, managed to pass off as truth from 1928 until at least 1962 . This is the original description of the program (my translation dallinglese)
Also, Im independent inasmuch as Im not tied to consensus opinions so that my findings will pass through the gauntlet of peer-review gatekeepers. Truth be told, its unlikely the results of my research would pass through that gauntlet because the satellite-era sea surface temperature data contradicts the dogmas of the consensus.
And now, even though CO2 levels continue to rise, temperatures have stayed steady or even declined.
3. The price of water in Australias largest water markets in the Southern Murray Darling regions experienced extreme volatility during the 07-08 season, peaking at $1200 per ML in November 2007 only to drop to below $300 per ML in February 2008. This was influenced by water resource availability and major policy/allocation announcements during the season.
while ignoring that there is no evidence that climate has become more variable or extreme , paleoclimate evidence shows extreme weather is more common during cold periods,and many climate models predict less extreme weather in a warmer climate.
IPCC Relied On Study Which Used Tiny Sample.
"As confrontation mounted over a contentious plan to reform the retirement system, the French civil aviation authority said on Monday it was asking airlines to cut flights into French airports by up to 50 percent on Tuesday because of possible strikes by airport personnel."
"The Parliament shall, subject to this Constitution, have power to make laws for the peace, order, and good government of the Commonwealth with respect to the acquisition of property on just terms from any State or person for any purpose in respect of which the Parliament has power to make laws."
The Green-energy emphasis was sold as a job creator for unemployed Americans, as a cure for global warming, and as a way to slow a perceived energy shortage. It sounded so positive in the many speeches President Obama gave as a sales pitch to the American public.
Spencer gives us a graph of temperatures from 1950 to 2010 that shows an increase of about 1.8 degrees centigrade over 60 years for a DT/dt = 0.03 Degrees Centigrade per year. He then presents a chart documenting a decreasing trend that shown US F3 to F5 tornadoes dropping from 43 to 27 in a fairly consistent linear progression. This gives us a DN/dt = -0.267 F3 to F5 tornadoes per year.
It might be time to bring out the special "I hug myself" jackets.
Phew thats OK then. Seriously, this guy is so compromised he shouldnt be let anywhere near an independent enquiry.
ICSC chief science advisor, Professor Bob Carter of James Cook University in Queensland, Australia and author of the best selling book, Climate: the Counter Consensus explained, Science has yet to provide unambiguous evidence that problematic, or even measurable, human-caused global warming is occurring. The hypothesis of dangerous man-made climate change is based solely on computerized models that have repeatedly failed in practice in the real world.
The tests involved head-on crashes between the fortwo and a 2009 Mercedes C Class, the Fit and a 2009 Honda Accord and the Yaris and the 2009 Toyota Camry. The tests were conducted at 40 miles per hour, representing a severe crash.
When people say the science is settled, they generally mean greenhouse gas theory. But that means only the nudge is settled. What is far from settled is the second theory of strong net positive feedback in the climate, ie the theory the climate is perched on top of a hill. It is unusual for long-term stable but chaotic systems to be dominated by such strong positive feedbacks. In fact, only the most severe contortions allow scientists to claim their high-sensitivity models of catastrophic warming are consistent with the relatively modest warming of the past century.
7.	"Climate change is no destiny; it is a consequence of a lack of responsibility " No, climate change is most likely a consequence of natural solar radiation variations.
In conclusion, I guess what surprised me the most was how stale the data was in GHCN v2. In answer to Willis?? FOI request, the University of East Anglia said that all the Jones station data was available online at GHCN v2. If that??s the case, is CRU also using stale station data? With so much stale data, I wonder how many series are actually driving the temperature results in this area.
The current biofuel craze is another case in point. Greens have long favored government mandates to convert corn into motor fuel. They claim this will cut into our supposed addiction to oil, while minimizing harmful greenhouse gas emissions from our tailpipes. The Greens got their wish, and in recent years Congress has ordered billions of gallons of ethanol to be introduced into our fuel supply. European nations have passed similar biofuel mandates to fight global warming.
And what that means is that if the IPCC claim of three degrees of global warming per doubling of CO2 is true, when the top-of-atmosphere radiation goes up by a doubling of CO2, an additional TOA 3.7 watts per metre squared, the surface downwelling radiation needs to go up by no less than 21 W/m2 per doubling. And although I was surprised by the size of the number, to me was very good news, because it meant that if it were there, it should be large enough to be quite visible in the CERES data. So I took a look and Figure 1 above shows what I found.
Climate scientists are claiming that 2003 was the hottest year Britain has seen since record-keeping began in 1659; most blame man's emissions of greenhouse gases as the prime cause. The truth is that we still don't know that the warmer summers of recent years are due to man's handiwork. The variation could be natural and there's no saying that the current trend will continue.
the most out of the first part of their terms avoid the temptation to coast,
New York Post reports on Democrat Senators attacking organizations that disagree with them on the climate change debate.
With regard to glaciers, their individual flow rates are recognized to be complex and varied, both in location and time. In any case, ice melts only after a certain delay and does not respond to short-term temp fluctuations.
3. There was an Ice Age 450 million years ago when CO2 was about 10 times higher than it is today.
The insights of these two scientists would seem to be unknown to far too many advocates of AGW/climate change who seem incapable of confronting anomalies spawned by increasing knowledge of phenomena like cloud cover, sun spots, and cosmic radiation.
"Unknown plants and insects may touch our hearts less than the whales or jaguars, but in the long run they might have been more useful to people and central to the functions of their ecosystems in ways that we cannot imagine. At the present rate, many of them are dead for the rest of history, extinguished by fire, mercury, dioxin, and the loss of the agents of their survival, whether a pollinator, a dispersal agent, a particular type of soil, or a particular tree." Alexander Cockburn, Fate of the Forest, p. 58
Nevertheless, it is absolutely clear that there is no evidence that there is a trend of growing extremes and more disasters, and that fits with what scientists have long said about global warming.
So are todays temperatures unprecedented? Monckton talks about the Medieval Warm Period. The UN IPCC report of 1990 showed a clear Medieval Warm Period (MWP) and a Little Ice Age (LIA), but the IPCC 2001 report showed the Hockey Stick graph 6 times in colour with no MWP. So how was this achieved? Data showing a hockey stick shape from Sheep Mountain in California was given 390 times the weighting of the data Mayberry Slough in Arizona, which had a MWP.
Expanding wind is a good investment if energy prices increase more than we forecast, and there is a significant risk of that happening, he said.
One doesn't have to be a great expert in political science, sociology, military matters, politics, or related issues to figure out who is the aggressor and why he is doing it and who is defending himself. Common sense, a modest amount of intelligence, and the ability to connect the dots is, along with hours of the research of available sources and materials from several sources, enough.
GFS 00z heaviest snowfall New Years Eve for Nevada & Arizona (at elevation) & frz rain for Texas New Years Day. http://t.co/DWwJ3Gd2xz Ryan Maue (@RyanMaue) December 29, 2014
An Inconvenient Truth: Liberal Climate Inquisition Can't Explain Past Temperature Changes
The Fourth Session of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention (COP-4) is being held in Buenos Aires from November 2-13, 1998. Organizations interested in applying for accreditation to the conference as an NGO should write a letter stating their interest to:
Pennsylvania wind project cancelled after local opposition
During the 1920s, observe historians Sandra Opdycke and David Rosner, patients' fees accounted for 69 percent of the voluntary hospitals' revenue, though fiscal stability remained elusive for them. The hospitals' boards continued to take their charitable mission seriously. They resisted unionization, believing that the services that hospitals provided were too vital to submit to union demands, let alone to permit slowdowns or strikes. The hospitals also feared that unionization threatened their already-uncertain fiscal situation. This antiunion mind-set helped make health care the "quiet zone" of labor relations for generations.
The normalization of TA and DIC to a constant salinity subdues the buffering provided by salinity; while amplifying the acidification effect of increasing CO2. A realistic treatment of salinity, yields an insignificant lowering of pH from a doubling of pre-industrial CO2. Chicken Little of the Sea does not appear to be very dangerous.
He also failed to mention that the U.S. has made no such pledges as regards the 1992 ?Kyoto Treaty? which was resoundingly rejected by the U.S. Senate when then Vice President Al Gore brought it back from the U.N. conference.
Then some how you end up diverted into a side street, that has a traffic jam, so you turn onto a sort of an alley and then you find yourself in a strange part of town on not-quite a street. Surrounded by people eying your looks and your ride with a Like what brought your sorry ass down here? and you are wondering that too. You start to think you really just want the next freeway onramp, to anywhere, but dont know where it is.
Angry crowds have demanded the death penalty for a Sudanese newspaper editor over an article allegedly questioning the parentage of the Prophet Muhammad. Hundreds of people waving banners and chanting "God is great" protested outside a court as Mohamed Taha Mohamed Ahmed was charged over the article. Ali Shumi, the head of Sudan's Press Council, said the article insulted the Prophet Muhammad. He denied the charges were an assault on press freedom. "Freedom of the press stops when it comes to respect for religions. Not just for Islam - if you said the same things about Jesus there would be the same punishment," he said.
But to turn the health-care debate their way, Republicans need to do a simple, elemental thing " which they have been loathe to do for much of the past 14 years: talk about the issue.
Thanks to the efforts of Green patron saint Rachel Carson, environmentalists have succeeded in curbing the use of DDT, which, Murray writes, is "highly effective in controlling malaria and thereby lifting millions out of poverty." While it's unclear if banning the pesticide has had much in the way of environmental benefits, it has been unquestionably harmful to humankind. Unchecked malaria has killed tens of millions of people, particularly in Africa, and continues to cost people their lives each year. "In 2005 alone, across Uganda, 50,000 children died from malaria," Murray notes. "That is the true Silent Spring."
The Supreme Court ruled that the EPA could regulate greenhouse gases, not that the EPA must regulate. Former President George W. Bush administration had the good sense to let sleeping dogs lie. President Obama, on the other hand, thought he could leverage the Supreme Court's decision. He had campaigned on a promise to deliver a "cap-and-trade" program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but he is having trouble getting it through Congress. So the President devised a high-stakes game of chicken: He is threatening to unleash the EPA in order to coerce climate legislation out of Congress.
For example, if we say that the Earth is in numerical flux equilibrium with the Sun, and mistake this for conserving energy, then that would mean that the Earth must emit the same flux of energy as it receives the Sun. Therefore the Earth must emit 480 W/m2on average since that is what it receives from the Sun on an instantaneous basis.
Om miljrrelsen: Den strsta frloraren r miljrrelsen. I mnga r har dess aktivister negligerat allt utom klimatfrgan Ingen intressegrupp i modern tid har varit s befriat frn skepticism, kritisk granskning och ansvar som miljetablissemanget.
With most of the October 18th report and survey based on this Alice in Wonderland-like definition of global warming, we have no choice but to dismiss as meaningless the answers to their subsequent question ?Do you think that global warming is happening??
Writing in the well-known science blog "Watts Up With That," CATO's Center for the Study of Science Director Patrick Michaels, Assistant Director Paul Knappenberger, and Distinguished Senior Fellow-MIT Professor Emeritus of Meteorology Richard Lindzen agree that the lax standard of NOAA's study should prompt questions by members of the scientific community.
"While the recession has hit men far harder than women so much so that some pundits have dubbed this economic downturn
For a fuller account see Andrew Montfords The Unintended Consequences of Climate Change Policy . The Danish statistician/economist, Bjorn Lomberg , believes in AGW but also believes that resources used to deal with it would be better expended for the Third World poor by improving water supplies, agricultural resources and dealing with disease.
Question 2 (for Times Colonist editor Lucinda Chodan): IPCC reports are subject to "review by governments." This does not mean that government does what it wishes after the IPCC reports are published, as is proper; governments get to determine what the scientific results will be before they are published. In other words, the IPCC is subject to a political agenda. My question is: Would you agree to be the editor in chief of a newspaper that was subject to "review by governments"? Would you trust such a newspaper?
The answer lies in his promise to ?fundamentally transform? a nation that does not need transformation except for the reduction of the size and scope of the federal government. Its economic system is the best in the world. Its military is the strongest. Its agriculture feeds Americans and is exported to other nations.
Following massive aboveground destruction caused by both fires and hurricanes , atmospheric CO 2 enrichment is able to bring scrub-oak ecosystems back from the brink of death , so to speak, to once again flourish, as the life-giving gas stimulates root production and the acquisition of needed-but-scarce soil nutrients?? Read
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As an example, when demand is 40GW, and nuclear/hydro/bio are contributing 20GW, only 20GW will be needed from wind, less than a third of the implied capacity. Wind farms simply will not find it economical to operate at such low levels, which presumably means they will be paid huge subsidies, on top of existing ones, to switch off. All of which, of course, will have to be paid for by the long suffering consumer.
But for 18 years, despite the Met Offices increasingly desperate attempts to claim otherwise, those cussed temp-eratures have simply refused to rise in tandem, as their computer models predicted they should have done.
"European leaders have been slow to heed calls for a diversification of the continent's energy sources. Meanwhile, Russia's state-owned energy giant, Gazprom, has been consolidating control over the regional supply. In May, 2007, Russian and Central Asian leaders came to agreement about the transport of natural gas from the Caspian Sea on terms favorable to Moscow. Algeria, the second largest provider of natural gas to Europe, has talked with Gazprom about better coordination, which has stoked fears of a possible natural gas cartel, like OPEC. And now, Russia is making moves on Nigeria's promising reserves."
On Earth Two, this is Romney's climate change policy
The Efficiency of a Carbon Tax: Broadly Accepted and Broadly Wrong
The EPA is on the regulatory rampage as lawyers salivate on the sidelines. Can it be stopped?
Global Warmth In 88 Is Found To Set a Record New York Times
This is what happened in July 2012. Then, NCDC records indicated that the United States was less cool at night than in July 1936, therefore, the average they computed for July 2012 was higher than in 1936. Yet, Roy Spencer of the University of Alabama at Huntsville demonstrated that NCDC records show daytime high temperatures in July 1936 far surpassed those of 2012. July 2012 was not the warmest month in the American 118-year instrumental record.
I also agree with Nigel Lawson that ?doing nothing is better than doing something stupid? (p. 95). If we want to save our blue planet, it shouldn?t be from climate change, but ? as the author says in the last sentence of his book ? from entering ?a new age of unreason? (p. 106). I spent most of my life in such an age.
Climate change lobby wants to kill free speech
Voelker et al . report that since 1850 the stem growth of the three species has risen "coincidently with increases in atmospheric CO 2 ," such that the overall trend in ring-width in recent years is "nearly two times that" experienced prior to 1850. In addition, they note that the "long-term increases in radial growth appear unrelated to historical disturbance levels for the region, to long-term changes in relevant climatic variables, or to productivity of sites sampled." What it means
Last years blizzard was bad timing, too. Temperatures were lower than usual, which caused what was supposed to be heavy rain to become heavy snow.
But the green argument is more complex There is a global dimension to food production the market as this research argued
Two federal laws are cited in the complaint: The Anti-Kickback Act (1934 and amended) and the False Claims Act (1863 and amended).
Going back further, to 1964, Lyndon Johnson beat Barry Goldwater by 22 percent. Four years later, Richard Nixon began an era of Republican domination of national elections.
While President Obama challenged China at the United Nations to follow the U.S. lead in pushing for drastic reductions in national carbon emissions to save the planet from climate change, it appears that China has dramatically different ideas. As in: no.
Rebuttal: Bob Tisdale shows how "Forecast the Facts? Brad Johnson and now Dr. Heidi Cullen are fecklessly factless about ocean warming and the blizzard Dear Chicken Little: "The Sky Is Falling (It's Snowing) But Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies Off New England Are NOT Unusual'