Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
The Australian Daily Telegraph for instance writes that, "as he waited for a helicopter to winch him out, team leader Professor Chris Turney was clinging to credibility like the black knight in Monty Python. "It's so warm it's actually raining!' he tweeted yesterday."
It is also important to understand that the equilibrium average surface temperature calculated by radiative forcing is not a measurable climate variable. It has no existence outside of the equilibrium Earth that resides only in the universe of computerized climate fiction found inside these radiative forcing models. .
This piece originally appeared in National Review Online
Ten years later, it is clear that just as NATO enlargement to the East has sent Russia into the arms of China, Western energetico-military forays in Central Asia have led China, in turn, to increase its activities in the backyards of Europe (Africa) and America (from Cuba to Panama and Venezuela). America's fixation on Central Asia has been based on probable reserves, which were then contrasted to proven reserves in Persian Gulf, though never with probable reserves offshore worldwide. Since Caspian Sea oil now seems to combine all the problems associated with landlocked transportation and offshore extraction, not to mention geopolitical entanglements, it may be time for a reappraisal.
They pointed out, without too much ado, the innocent fact that since the beginning of the observations in 1979, the year 2013 has seen the greatest increase of the Arctic sea ice area relatively to the previous year's summer minimum.
However, when I signed the letter, I was unaware of the seriousness of the allegations of abuse. I was feeling sick at that time and was not properly informed. I was misled by not being provided with sufficient information to make an appropriate decision. I wish to retract that letter. The implication that I personally, or the club has taken Ms Dhalla's side is totally false. I hereby request that Ms Dhalla stop claiming that she has the support of the Brampton Filipino Seniors Club and me. Both claims are false and should not be used in her defence in this inquiry. Thank you very much.
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Director of Risk & Environmental Policy Angela Logomasini on the regulatory barriers to fighting diseases like West Nile:
an appeal for other nations to shoulder greater international responsibilities,
CO 2 -induced increases in plant biomass ranged from 13 to 100%, depending on root temperature and nitrogen amount and source, with the greatest responses being recorded in the nitrate-fed plants. What it means
That does not mean going back to an Eisenhower-era or even Nixon-era GOP, when centrists were key forces; it means a very conservative party by any reasonable measure. As such, we sympathize with Republicans like David Frum who have been harshly critical of the party's course but refuse to leave it, believing their presence is necessary to fight to yank the party back to a problem-solving state.
Why do I hear nothing about the effects of all of the-environmental-agency-mandated "cooling towers" dumping heated water vapor into the atmosphere? They must have some effect on the Earth's temperature. The water vapor adds heat to the atmosphere, equal to at least the power generated by the power station, and forms clouds in the area which make the surrounding area cool less at night. The water vapor itself is a greenhouse gas. The towers started out as building coolers. Now they are on every large building and every power plant.
The environmental movement suffers its biggest defeat since Climategate
???Multivariate regression methods are insensitive to the sign of predictors??. Mann et al seem to be saying their methods are invariant to the data??s orientation ??? perhaps to linear translation? ??? anyway it means the data can??t be upside-down. Now if the mathematical interpretation placed on the data by their methods conflict with physical information from other sources, it does raise questions. Presumably the next sentences in Mann et al??s reply l refer to this, I can??t see anything in Kaufman et al that illuminates this and it would seem to require detailed knowledge of the field to judge the importance of these issues. And as you said, we (you, me, Steve McIntyre,?? ) are not professionally qualified to engage in the substance of such a debate.
CEI filed with the D.C. Superior Court a copy of an order issued last week by a federal judge in Texas, in Exxon's challenge to the Mass. AG's subpoena to Exxon.
Noting its final due date in June, that refusal would impose a Federal Implementation Plan on states "that risks even greater harm," said Hill. "But the problem for the EPA is that the federal government lacks the legal authority under either the Constitution or the Clean Air Act to enforce most of the regulation's "building blocks' without states' acquiescence."
A quote from Mark Twain: . . . peoples beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing.
Date: May 1, 2010 Time: 10:00 am Central DST
The Great Lino speaks in an essay for a Con Law colloquium for the Law Journal of the Federalist Society:
From the new National Academy of Sciences report on climate modeling:
Butterflies are often mentioned as being particularly sensitive to climate change. Yet a recent one-day record for butterfly diversity in northwestern Connecticut suggests current climate is more hospitable than ever.
2. Some alternate techniques that determine CO 2 concentration over time contradict the slow changing ice record, but this may in fact be due to 1). This could mean present levels are not quite so extremely high or unusually fast changing as thought.
A 2009 article in MacLife magazine acknowledges that, while "solar-powered gadgets have become de rigueur in our attempts to shrink our carbon footprint," there is a rarely discussed "dark side" to solar energy. Many solar panels are made with cadmium, a highly toxic carcinogen, and when these panels are decommissioned after about 20 years there will be a huge accumulation of "e-waste." Manufacturing polysilicon (a key component in sun-capturing wafers) generates four tons of toxic silicon tetrachloride for every ton of product and Chinese firms that produce the bulk of this material and rare earth metals for solar panels and wind turbines have been dumping their wastes on farmlands and wildlife habitats.
And the shale revolution has yet to go global. When it does, oil and gas in tight rock formations will give the world ample supplies of hydrocarbons for decades, if not centuries. Lurking in the wings for later technological breakthroughs is methane hydrate, a seafloor source of gas that exceeds in quantity all the worlds coal, oil and gas put together.
If air temperature is holding steady and air quality improving, it is hard to understand how, per White House senior advisor Brian Deese: "This is not just a future threat this is a present threat."
Arizona will be entering the new year ahead on rainfall for the first time since 2010 as well as above-average temperatures, according to the National Weather Service.
Finally, there is an underlying arrogance about the concept that I find disturbing. Forty percent of the worlds people live on less than $2 per day. In China its sixty percent. In India, three-quarters of the population lives on under $2 per day.
And it appears that the chairman of the full Judiciary Committee, Lamar Smith of Texas, is interested. This is noteworthy because Smith has been an implacable opponent of any bill containing legalization or amnesty provisions.
,..0.85 Watts per meter squaredis the imbalance at the end of the decade.
Here we go again, the modelers cant model clouds. These people need to listen and pay attention.
Still, the government could still use the conference to promote its own emissions curbing goals, to be incorporated into a five-year economic plan that starts from 2011.
Approximately $2.05 billion in employee earnings;
As the release of the final Harry Potter novel approaches, the growing frenzy around the title is being fuelled in part by a host of internet spoilers that allegedly reveal the fate of the teen wizard.
This new edition of Human Impacts on Weather and Climate examines the scientific and political debates surrounding anthropogenic impacts on the Earths climate and presents the most recent theories, data and modeling studies. The book discusses the concepts behind deliberate human attempts to modify the weather through cloud seeding, as well as inadvertent modification of weather and climate on the regional scale. The natural variability of weather and climate greatly complicates our ability to determine a clear cause-and-effect relationship to human activity. The authors describe the basic theories and critique them in simple and accessible terms. This fully revised edition will be a valuable resource for undergraduate and graduate courses in atmospheric and environmental science, and will also appeal to policy makers and general readers interested in how humans are affecting the global climate.
"Along both temperate and tropical rocky shores," in the words of the five scientists, "there was a reduction in sea urchin abundances alongside a proliferation of Padina spp., as CO 2 levels increased." In the case of sea urchins, in fact, they discovered that the predators were actually absent in locations having the highest CO 2 levels (lowest pH); while in the case of the Padina spp., they found that "even in the lowest pH conditions, P. pavonica and P. australis were still able to calcify, seemingly from the enhancement of photosynthesis under high levels of CO 2 ." What it means
High-speed rail authority, PR firm go separate ways:
Maybe because it corresponds with the period of post WWII cloud seeding experiments. Sorry not PC.
Above are some graphs for those of you interested in the remarkable, ongoing drought in intense hurricane landfalls in the US, which is stretching close to 10 years. The top graph shows the days in between intense (category 3+) landfalls in the US since 1900. The bottom graph shows the same information, but only for Florida landfalls.
The board estimates that the excess rains have left 4.25 million hectares unseeded and ruined the prospects for another one million hectares that did get in the ground.
By studying eelgrass meadows on a ecosystem level, we were able to observe how plants and animals interact under changing climatic conditions. This also allowed us to measure the indirect effects, meaning the effects of climate change on an animal or a plant mediated through another organism.
Skeptics were considered sorcerers or witches and were tortured until they confessed. Then they were executed.
military compelled Obama to remove McChrystal from his command. (Rolling Stone reporter Michael Hastings's book on the war in Afghanistan, The Operators, is an important and troubling document of the sense of untouchability felt by
The Committee leadership already had a course of action in mind even when we were appointed.
Obama has spent on an unprecedented scale, such as for a stimulus package that has actually shrunk the economy and destroyed thousands of jobs, and an auto bailout that forces cash-strapped taxpayers to bail out high-paid union auto workers, whose pay remains much higher than that of the typical taxpayer, while saddling the car companies with politically-correct mandates that may kill their chance of survival.
Ovanstende is new for me and Yet another reason not to use the lgenergilampor. Thanks Jonas and Ida from you tnker sjlva and dare point out the apparent madness.
What they arent showing is that more than 80% of the glaciers documented retreat occurred before 1940, and that between 1794 and 1879, the glacier retreated eight feet per day.
All methods strongly underestimates the amplitude of low-frequency variability and trends. This means that it is almost impossible to conclude from reconstruction studies that the present period is warmer than any period in the reconstructed period.
Eleanor Coner, SPTC's information officer, said, "It's dangerous when the Internet is littered with opinion and inaccurate information which could be taken as fact," she told the Scotsman for a June 21 article.
Labor and manufacturing officials warned the Senate on June 26 against signing a climate change treaty without requiring compliance by developing countries (BNA Environment Report, June 27, 1997). Officials claimed that reducing greenhouse emissions to 1990 levels would require a 50 percent increase in the price of natural gas and electricity and a twofold to fourfold increase in the price of coal. They also warned that such a treaty would send 1 million U.S. jobs to developing countries. According to David Montgomery, vice president of Charles River Associates, the industries hardest hit would be producers and miners of cement, aluminum, ferrous metals, iron ore, paper, stone and clay, fertilizers, chemicals, and glass.
China eyes stake in California high-speed rail system:
26 Therefore if the uncircumcision keep the righteousness of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision?
The Annual Energy Outlook 2014 (the most current edition) also has a $25 per ton carbon-tax side case. Again the GDP losses are significant, exceeding $150 billion for many years, and the jobs losses are severe, with employment in some years falling below the no-carbon-tax reference case by more than one million jobs.
The outages were shrinking by Friday night, with Duke Energy down to 300,000 customers affected at about 10 p.m.
Instead, its focus is on reducing "carbon intensity" the amount of the main greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide (CO2), emitted for each dollar of economic activity. It plans to reduce this by 40-45 percent by 2020 compared to 2005.
Its interesting to actually look at the table of results. For the MBH98 network (here they use 104 locations), the RE score is very high for all 5 cases (as are the CE and verification r2 scores). Given that the issue with MBH is negligible verification r2 and CE scores, this hardly proves the point that is supposedly being made.
And then we could get aggressive about things. We could put our critical infrastructure on a market basis, rather than having it run by inefficient governments. Look at California and New York, facing blackouts now years after the deficiency in energy infrastructure were laid bare by a series of energy crises from California to the eastern seaboard.
Climate Change in Copenhagen, Intel and Antitrust and Rep. Barton Takes on the EPA
This makes it very clear that the low CO2 values in the Antarctic ice cores during the Holocenecould easily be the result of diffusion and do not constitute valid evidence of a stable pre-industrial atmospheric CO2 level of ~275 ppmv.
But it isnt just that environmental threats have a habit of turning out less bad than feared; its that the remedies sometimes prove worse than the disease.
Four months later, the committee's investigation charade has concluded. Most shocking, however, is that Penn State remains openly unabashed by the investigation's shoddiness.
Could the Earth be cooling its heels? One thing could quash the debate over global warming real quick global cooling and it could be on the way. This brave, against-the-grain prognostication that the Earths average temperature could be actually starting to decrease comes from agricultural meteorologist Drew Lerner, who in circles of the global warming in-crowd is known as a denier....
The EPA is the instrument of those who want to undermine capitalism in any way it can. Only that can explain why entire books have been written about its impact on the economy of the nation and the deceptive way it has imposed regulations responsible for it.
First of all, Ries et al . observed that "following the initial acclimation phase, survivorship in each experimental treatment was 100%," while last of all, in regard to the corals' rates of calcification and linear extension, they say that "no significant difference was detected relative to the control treatment (?? A = 2.6) for corals reared under ?? A of 2.3 and 1.6," which latter values correspond to pH reductions from current conditions of 0.08 and 0.26, respectively. And it is enlightening to note that the 0.26 pH reduction is approximately twice the maximum reduction derived from the analysis of Tans (2009) that would likely result from the burning of all fossil fuels in the crust of the earth . What it means
The four Korean researchers concluded that "plantlets grown under CO 2 enrichment" -- and without the help of any applied sugar -- "developed completely viable photosynthetic apparatus ready to be efficiently transferred to ex vitro conditions," a fact that they say has "far-reaching implications" for the micropropagation of Phalaenopsis , and possibly other plants as well. Reviewed 18 March 2009
The Obama Administration has thus far imposed some $743 billion of those new costs, via 4,432 new rules requiring 754 million hours of paperwork, according to a new American Action Forum analysis. The $2 trillion cumulative annual tab is more than all federal individual and corporate taxes collected in 2015; includes 10 billion hours dealing with paperwork; and does not include state or local regulations. Land use and environmental compliance costs account for a sizable and growing portion of this total.
9. Most hurricanes ever in one day: On August 22, 1893 , four hurricanes were occurring simultaneously: storm #3 approaching Nova Scotia, Canada, storm #4 between Bermuda and the Bahamas, storm #6 northeast of the Lesser Antilles, and storm #7 west of the Cape Verde Islands. Storm #4 would end up making a direct hit on New York City as a Category 1 hurricane two days later and storm #6 ending up hitting Georgia and South Carolina as a Category 3 hurricane (the "Sea Islands Hurricane") and killing 1000-2000 people. The only other known date with four hurricanes occurring at the same time was September 25, 1998 , when hurricanes Georges, Ivan, Jeanne and Karl were in existence.
The plot for Sunday 8-10-2003:
This is what the climate models predicted Siberian temperatures in the desert southwest.
It is about 120 series that would pass if you accept Manns incredibly generous autocorrelation assumptions. Far, far, higher if you do not. One of the most difficult scams of the paper is the determination of the correct autocorrelations to use for this particular correlation value. Jim apparently accepts it with a hand wave and zero consideration but climate science isnt known for statistical prowess. It becomes even more fuzzy when you realize that the autocorrelations of individual series are so widely different that several wont even converge with Rs arima fit function.
"`Despite extensive inquiries, we have been unable to obtain conclusive evidence to support the suggestion that massive extinctions have taken place in recent times,'" writes Vernon Heywood, a former chief scientist of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources." (U.S. News, pp. 82-86)
First, there is a difference. Cap-and-trade can do a very good impersonation of a carbon tax when we know the demand for emissions with certainty, when we do a great job of regulating, and when we auction off all the emissions permits. If we're uncertain about the demand for producing emissions, if it is hard to keep tabs on what various emitters are doing, or if politics intrudes into the process of handing out emissions permits, then the two approaches veer apart.
To conclude: the less warming, the more confident the IPCC about its claims to policy-makers.
US deficit up 15.7% in first half of fiscal 2011:
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China's government has vigorously denied that it is attempting to illegitimately manipulate the scheme. But the point is that there is no system for independent and external verification; nor is Beijing proposing to allow one. Meanwhile, China had previously pledged that 15% (and possibly 20%) of its energy would come from renewable sources by 2020 and that special efforts would be made to close dirty power plants and impose world-class vehicle efficiency standards and proposed various other measures to cut emissions. Again, developed countries suspect that China will receive plaudits and concessions from any future carbon emissions regime without actually keeping its promises.
In the early days of the post Cold War, there were, on both sides of the Atlantic, great hopes that the UN could finally play the role it was initially designed for. A former ambassador to the UN, the elder Bush in particular hoped to make the UN the cornerstone of a New World Order. In Europe as well, as the EU was toying with the idea of transforming itself from an Europe-espace to an Europe-puissance, many thought that an EU military force could constitute the military arm of the UN, and that the EU, in turn, could use the UN as a force multiplier to provide a "counterweight" to the US.
During the period 1900-2005, precipitation seems to have actually increased in areas above 30 degrees north latitude including California and the rest of the U.S. according to the most recent assessment from the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Fisker Automotive , the maker of an exotic electric sports car that is being built with help from a $529 million federal government loan guarantee, has announced layoffs at its Delaware plant as it tries to persuade the Department of Energy to send it more public funds.
Researchers quantify toxic ocean conditions during major extinction 93.9 million years ago
Not only are these politicos picking winners and losers through subsidies and mandates favoring selected "green" industries and technologies, they are roping in housing and finance agencies into their "environmentally correct" schemes. At best, this would divert the agencies away from their missions at a time of great economic volatility. At worst, it could cause a financial crisis of its own.
The energy cost is much lower in Europe dellItalia and the difference in time will be more and more. Lenel is estimated that the clean coal could lower the cost dellenergia 30%.
There is a remarkable lack of understanding with respect to the sensitivity of the minimum temperature overnight to relatively slight changes in surface conditions. Thispost illustrates one example of this sensitivity. The implication ofsuch influences is that the use of the minimum temperature as part of the construction of the global average surface temperature trend is seriously flawed, as we discussed in our paper
One thing to remember -- NCCI uses the amount your insurance company has reserved for a particular claim, not the actual payouts to date. In many cases you will find, on an open claim, the insurance company may have paid out $5,000 to date, but may have say $15,000 total reserved, meaning they estimate the payouts might reach that point some day. Check with your broker to make sure your insurance company is closing claims in the system. Once the claim is closed out, then the experience mod will use the sometimes lower actual rather than reserved number. Also note that experience mods are built up over a three year period, and often the last year is not included. So, for a renewal date of June 1, 2005, your experience mod probably includes claims from June 1, 2001 to June 1, 2004.