Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
Some scientists propose, therefore, to use modern technology to create a carefully engineered analogue to this effect. Proposals to seriously study geoengineering are gaining adherents among climate policy experts. In late 2006, NASA and the Carnegie Institution jointly sponsored a high-level expert workshop on the subject. Scientists such as Ralph Cicerone, Paul Crutzen, and Tom Wigley and prominent economists such as Scott Barrett, William Nordhaus, Thomas Schelling, and Lawrence Summers have argued that the concept warranted further exploration. Recently, an expert conference conducted at Stanford added the voices of several more distinguished economists to this list. John Holdren, the president's new science advisor, recently added his voice to this cause while also noting the many uncertainties that still surround these approaches.
CEI general counsel Sam Kazman said he would fight to quash the subpoena on First Amendment grounds. The subpoena was issued by Virgin Islands Attorney General Claude E. Walker, a leader of the prosecutors' climate change campaign.
The IPCC states that anthropogenic influences on the climate dominated natural ones sometime between 1960 80.The recent episode of global warming that occurred after that transition began in 1980. The world has warmed by about 0.4 deg C in this time. This analysis indicates that all of this warming occurred between 1980 and 1997. Whilst we live in the warmest decade of the instrumental era of global temperature measurement (post-1880), and the 90s were warmer than the 80s, the world has not got any warmer in the last 15 years.
Read here . Climate modeler scientists needing to make their "global warming" case - adjust temperatures until desired result is met.
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Study claimed in 2009 that sea levels would rise by up to 82cm by the end of century but the report??s author now says true estimate is still unknown
In fact, there has been a cooling, and a rather fast one that would subtract 2.7 ??C per century if it continued by the same rate (and it surely won't).
The recent bout of wintry weather and the overall political climate have almost certainly killed climate-change legislation this year.
MV Akademik Shokalskiy ( Russian : ) is an Akademik Shuleykin -class ice-strengthened ship, built in Finland in 1982 and originally used for oceanographic research. In 1998 it was fully refurbished to serve as a research ship for Arctic and Antarctic work. It was named after the Russian oceanographer Yuly Shokalsky . The ship has two passenger decks, with dining rooms, a bar, a library, and a sauna, and accommodates 54 passengers. It is currently operated by Aurora Expeditions, an Australian expedition cruise line. In 2011, the Akademik Shokalskiy sailed cruises along the coast of Russia and to East Antarctica . Her sister ships are Akademik Shuleykin , Arnold Veymer , Akademik Gamburtsev , Professor Molchanov , Professor Multanovskiy , Geolog Dmitriy Nalivkin , Professor Polshkov , Professor Khromov .
Carlo Stagnaro is Research Director of the Italian think tank Istituto Bruno Leoni www.brunoleoni.it
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Lets examine some of the legal elements of this case. Fragoules is Kathleen Fragoules, who was employed by Daiichi Sankyo as a sales representative from approximately March, 1997 until January, 2010. The case was filed in March, 2010, and is a qui tam action.
Al Gore Sells Out to Big Oil & Gas: ???Al-Jazeera received its initial funding through a decree from Emir of Qatar, & Qatar, gets its wealth from its vast oil & natural gas reserves??
New emissions policy will force biggest UK firms to reveal CO2 figures
By Staff Writers, CO2 Science , Aug 11, 2015
Its not in the air. Atmospheric temperature readings show global temperatures have been flat for more than a decade .
In this documentary, Al Gore fudged the Vostok Ice core temperature and CO 2 line graphs so it would show a CO 2 spike coming first but alas the real graph showed just the opposite. See data, in a shorter time frame (240,000 Years Before Present rather than 420,000 years) to make it easier to see which came first, Figure 1.
Doesn't it also mean there really are safe levels and PM2.5 particles are not really toxic or lethal? Doesn't it mean EPA's draconian standards should be significantly modified, and companies and communities should be compensated for their costs in complying with excessive, unjustified particulate regulations?
The Asia-Pacific treaty occupies that field until something more attractive comes along for the 155 nations that have rejected Kyoto's cuts. Finally, it is Kyoto's death knell to all but the most intransigent because it accomplishes what Kyoto failed to do: It brings together the top emitters, prominently including the two major advanced economies (Australia and the United States) that refused to ratify and the two major developing economies that did ratify, but on the condition that they be exempt from any rationing (China and India).
"Once a year I will do one of these shocking actions to raise awareness about climate change."
Like Obama, Hickenlooper using heavy-handed tactics on climate policy
An Effective Global Deal on GHG Control Is Unlikely
Markowsky, an executive vice president for American Electric Power until 2000, certainly understands that the quickest and most economic way to reduce carbon emissions from the 1,445 existing coal-fired power plants in the U.S. is to increase the efficiency and net power produced of a facility. Remember, CCS will require as much as 25% to 35% of the plants electrical output to run the chemical plant used to capture the carbon and therefore decimate the plants operating economics so perhaps this is Markowskys way of throwing sweetening the bad medicine that comes with CCS retrofits.
Fact two: natural processes are responsible for most if not all if the warming over the past 30 years, a warming that you continue to cite as proof of the effects of greenhouse gases.
Hansen writes as if we all live in Lake Woebegone where every child is above average and every household can beamong the 60% that receives more in dividends than they pay in higher energy costs. But, as noted in my earlier post on Hansens testimony,fee-and-green-check confers windfall profits on some and inflicts windfall losses on others simply by reason of the nature of their jobs or industries.For example,if youre an independent trucker, you consume far more motor fuel than the average household. Yet your share of the carbon tax revenueswould bethe average (per capita) share. Hansens scheme would transfer wealth from you to your neighbor with a white-collar job, not because you waste gasoline but because you haul freight for a living.
This section of the agenda fits neatly into other UN-sponsored activities that are afoot. In October, a few weeks after the release of 2030 Agenda, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) part of the World Health Organization (WHO), an arm of the UN released a report concluding that red meat, like beef and pork, is "probably carcinogenic" to humans, and that processed meat, like bacon and sausage, pose an even greater cancer risk.
Similar difficulties surround other elements of the Administration s scenario. Under Article 6 (joint implementation), U.S. firms may earn emissions credits by helping companies in other industrial countries reduce their emissions or enhance greenhouse gas-absorbing "sinks." But here again, only projects "supplemental" to domestic actions would qualify implying an upper limit to the credits attainable from joint implementation. Moreover, to earn credits, joint implementation projects must be "additional to any that would otherwise occur." Yet those that would "otherwise occur" are apt to be the most profitable investments. If credits can only be earned through economically unattractive ventures, then "joint implementation will have very limited value."26
By the way, Mr Boslough fails to have a unified ideology with his fellow LFCSes such as James Hansen, Michael Mann, Al Gore, and many others as well. That's because those other LFCSes actually claim that the "deniers" do have a unified motivation: they're hired by the Big Oil to lie about the climate in order for Philip Morris to sell even more cigarettes, or whatever is exactly the most current explanation of all the "contrarians" by Al Gore.
In the Senate, the subsequent anthrax scare showed its vulnerabilitybut there, at least, some devastating attack would have resulted in a more supple response, with most states enabling governors to pick temporary replacements to replenish the body and get it up and running quickly. The 2004 move by Massachusetts, the populist drive in many other states, and the concerted effort by Feingold have pushed us closer to a Senate that, like the House, cannot have appointments even as stopgaps until an election many months off. Meaning no Senate at all after a catastrophe.
Republicans at the top of the ticket were missing in action; Republican voters returned the favor. Nationally, in the 2008 election, GOP turnout fell by more than 4 percent while Democratic turnout rose by over 9 percent, according to American University's Center for the Study of the American Electoratenot enough to change the final outcome, but perhaps the difference in a razor-thin swing state such as Indiana, where McCain fell short by a mere 26,000 votes, or North Carolina, which Barack Obama carried by 100,000 votes, or less than 1 percent.
Scientists On Trial? Retired Lawyer?s Blogsite To Examine Earlier ?Predictions? Made By Climate ?Experts?
This is a satellite measurement of ground temperature, free of all the errors which make ground stations unreliable.
Temperatures taken by satellites are very precise; those taken from ground stations are less so.
8. Peter Gunter, a North Texas State University professor, wrote in 1970, "Demographers agree almost unanimously on the following grim timetable: by 1975 widespread famines will begin in India; these will spread by 1990 to include all of India, Pakistan, China and the Near East, Africa. By the year 2000, or conceivably sooner, South and Central America will exist under famine conditions .By the year 2000, thirty years from now, the entire world, with the exception of Western Europe, North America, and Australia, will be in famine."
Bonus Podcast: In The Tank (ep45): Texas Public Policy Foundation, Article V, Privatization, and the Fourth of July
In a study of cyclic behavior of the Sun, Russian scientists now predict 100 years of cooling.
New paper at SPPI: Flood Activity in Asia
See also another related Tuesday article, What a light Higgs would mean for the future of particle physics .
France also escapes. All along, that country has relied on nuclear power, which is clean and does not emit greenhouse gases. The United States could follow suit and replace old power plants with nuclear ones. But needless to say, our home-grown enviros rule that roost, too. Nuclear power has been thoroughly demon-ized (even though, as France has shown, it is clean and harmless), and it will not be revived.
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As the fight over the PTC points out, wind energy cannot survive without the tax credits.
United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP) in 1988 predicted sea levels would rise two metres by the year 2100 (112 years-time). This is 17.9mm per year. Error to date is 1,050%
2) Between 1980 and 2012, Arctic temperature anomalies have increased from 0.22C to 0.79C, an increase of 1.01C. During the same period, however, Antarctic anomalies have fallen by 0.87C.
In concluding, the Norwegian, Swedish and UK researchers say that "based on such evidence we urge some caution in assuming broad-scale extinctions of species will occur due solely to climate changes of the magnitude and rate predicted for the next century," reiterating that "the fossil record indicates remarkable biotic resilience to wide amplitude fluctuations in climate."
All actual data indicate that if there is an underlying trend beneath the noise of the weather data, it is currently less (and probably much less) than 1 C per century, i.e. certainly much less than 0.5 C in a "few decades".
Because of this "doublespeak," say the experts, "The dangers of global warming are not getting through to the public." I have a better explanation. Blaming SUVs for hurricane Katrina sets off the public's B.S. detector, as do implausible scenarios of sea levels rising 20 feet and the climate "tipping" into an Ice Age in our lifetimes or those of our children.
It's the same kind of President that believesor says he doesthe pronouncements of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The IPCC's "Climate Change 2014 Synthesis Report" claims that world will face "severe, pervasive, and irreversible damage" if coal-fired and other carbon-basedcoal, oil, and natural gasenergy sources are not replaced with "renewable energy sources"wind and solarby 2050. It wants fossil-fueled power generation "phased out almost entirely by 2100." Now this is just insanity, unless your agenda is to destroy the world's economic system and kill millions. That would be the only outcome of the IPCC recommendations.
Meanwhile, the National Snow and Ice Data Center has acknowledged that due to a satellite sensor malfunction, it had been underestimating the extent of Arctic sea ice by 193,000 square miles ??? an area the size of Spain. In a new study, University of Wisconsin researchers Kyle Swanson and Anastasios Tsonis conclude that global warming could be going into a decades-long remission. The current global cooling ???is nothing like anything we??ve seen since 1950,?? Swanson told Discovery News. Yes, global cooling: 2008 was the coolest year of the past decade ??? global temperatures have not exceeded the record high measured in 1998, notwithstanding the carbon-dioxide that human beings continue to pump into the atmosphere.
The critical issue is not climate sensitivity (to a doubling of atmospheric CO 2 levels) or how much global warming is due to CO 2 , because none of it is.
Using data from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a Science and Public Policy Institute paper published last month found that if the United States eliminated all carbon dioxide emissions, the overall impact on global temperature rise would be only 0.08 degrees Celsius by 2050.
Air Pollution has fallen to the lowest level ever recorded. Virtually the entire nation has achieved clean air standards for four of the six "criteria" pollutants regulated under the Clean Air Act (carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, and lead). In addition, air quality in the 10 largest metropolitan areasfive of which are in Californiahas improved by more than 53 percent since 1980.
Joel also pokes fun at Lashof's excuse that NRDC had to use 1996 emissions because who the heck knows what emissions will be 50 years from now. This is emphatically not what NRDC says about the CO2 emissions that allegedly control our climate destiny. Can you even imagine NRDC saying that climate models must use 1996 CO2 emissions to estimate CO2 concentrations in 2050 or 2080 because mid-century estimates of CO2 emissions are uncertain? Joel comments:
Workers compensation systems vary from state to state. State statutes and court decisions control many aspects, including the handling of claims, the evaluation of impairment and settlement of disputes, the amount of benefits injured workers receive and the strategies used to control costs.
Our hysterical anti-science friends claim that Arctic warming and melting caused the decline in multi-year Arctic ice, which was occurring prior to 2008.
Ethanol can be made in a variety of ways, but the usual way is still the most common: yeast is fed sugar molecules isolated from fruits or vegetables, and it produces ethanol as a byproduct. The ethanol is then distilled from a dilute solution by controlled heating in order to drive off ethanol vapor. In the United States, the primary raw material for producing fuel ethanol is corn, while in other countries, such as Brazil, the primary source is sugar cane.
Much of CRUs prominence exists because of IPCC activities by its employees. Much of the Climategate dossier, including some of the most controversial emails, arise out of IPCC activities by CRU employees. These include the emails arising from the September 1999 IPCC Lead Authors meeting in Arusha, Tanzania (up to and including the notorious trick email) and the Wahl-Briffa correspondence in July and August 2006, together with requests to delete this correspondence in May 2008.
Democrats have been most successful when their national leaders pursued policies appealing to different parts of the party's diverse coalitions. But President Obama's coalition and policies are almost entirely of the political left. That's left his party with few, if any, candidates (except perhaps Clinton?) who can duplicate his electoral success.
There are good reasons people buy mini cars. Theyre more affordable, and they use less gas. But the safety trade-offs are clear from our new tests, said Adrian Lund, the institutes president.
European leaders, like the big re-insurance companies, have been quick to link the catastrophic flooding this month in central Europe to global warming. And some have then used that to blame the United States. According to an August 15 Reuters story, German Environment Minister "Juergen Trittin, a Green, said higher global temperatures in recent decades had led to rising sea levels and increased rainfall and were at least partially to blame for a bout of unpredictable weather seen in recent years."
The environmentalists succeeded in discovering a new ?noble cause.? They try to limit human freedom in the name of ?something? that is more important and more noble than our very down-to-earth lives. For someone who spent most of his life in the ?noble? era of communism this is impossible to accept.
Apologies to Mark Perry for quoting his whole post, but if you are not reading Mark Perry, you should be. The second example comes from Overlawyered :
Other modern temperature charts. Historical and fabrication-temperature charts.
Morano noted that other GOP candidates and officials have modified their stance on climate change and energy regulation in recent years particularly former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, who at the first presidential debate last week recanted an old environmental ad he cut.
"The Justice Department is putting together subpoenas as part of its probe into allegations of criminal misconduct by News Corp., the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday night. The subpoenas are a sign that the phone hacking crisis surrounding the company is becoming a more serious problem in the U.S."
Sooo, the real risk derives from the ruling class, idiot-elites who authored the recent global financial meltdown, are in the process of destroying the states of California, Illinois and New York, and are driving the U.S. economic machine into a banana republic destitute condition of galactic-sized debt. The good news is that expert firms like Mercer are warning the public where the real risk comes from - your elected officials and overpaid bureaucrats, not the climate.
Florida's $2 Billion for High Speed Rail Goes Elsewhere:
Limbaugh describes this process as the aristocracy circling the wagons:
More than two centuries of scientific research have failed to make the duration or magnitude of monsoons predictable. Monsoons depend on sea and surface temperatures and wind conditions in the Indian and Western Pacific oceans, the timing of El Ninos in the equatorial Pacific, variations in Eurasian and Himalayan winter snow cover, and even wind direction in the equatorial stratosphere.
Keith Briffa who has succeeded in persuading the conspirators that in order to achieve the desired result of pretending that today's temperatures are exceptionally wrong that they should rely upon the measurement of tree rings from a single tree in rural Russia.
The gulf between the hard realities of the global energy market and the Obama administration's energy policies grows wider by the day.
" homogenation practices used until today are mainly statistical, not well justified by experiments, and are rarely supported by metadata. It can be argued that they often lead to false results: natural features of hydroclimatic times series are regarded as errors and are adjusted."
Once there was modern science, which was hard work; now we have postmodern science, where the quest for real, absolute truth is outdated, and ?science? is a wax nose that can be twisted in any direction to underpin the latest lying narrative in the pursuit of power.
As we approach the end of October, Arctic sea ice continues to grow well above the level of recent years. Unfortunately, NSIDC systems have been down for the last week, but all the other datasets are in pretty good agreement.
It follows that warming had a natural origin, the contribution of CO2 to it was insignificant, anthropogenic increase in the concentration of carbon dioxide does not serve as an explanation for it, and in the foreseeable future CO2 will not be able to cause catastrophic warming. The so-called greenhouse effect will not avert the onset of the next deep temperature drop, the 19th in the last 7500 years, which without fail follows after natural warming.
With the bombast and hubris that have characterized its 70 years of existence, the United Nations recently embarked on what it says is a "collective journey" to "free the human race from the tyranny of poverty and want and to heal and secure our planet."
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Regulatory compliance costs in excess of $1 trillion annually are a rarely acknowledged "hidden tax" on job creation and enterprise. Moreover, the Obama administration supports legislation that would heap billions in additional hidden taxes on energy despite the current economic slump.
As it happens, the tree-ring proxies match up with the thermometer measurements up until about 1960, when there is a "divergence" between the two sets of data. The tree rings indicate a global cooling after 1960, while the thermometer data indicates a sharp warming. The CRU scientists decided to simply stop using the inconveniently non-warming tree-ring data after 1960. In one email, this is discussed as a "trick" developed by Michael Mann, the creator of the infamous climate "hockey stick chart," that would "hide the decline" shown by the tree-rings, and emphasize the recent spike in thermometer data, preserving the sanctity of the hockey stick.
The gist of this propaganda piece is that anthropogenic CO2 causes global warming, which heats the oceans and causes thermal expansion. Along with melting glaciers, the hotter oceans cause sea level rise. And the SLR is the coastal flooding projections from the Union of Concerned Scientists . Not very original, but if you are just inundated with bad news, any old projection will do. The UCS projection doesnt even start with actual flooding, because there really hasnt been enough to have an almost zero start point. None of these climate expert worriers seem to be aware that the rate of sea level rise has been constant for about 150 years.
As a sidebar note: Freshwater clams and other shell formers are happy to make shells at pH up to 4.5 or so. Leads me to wonder if they care about pH or Alkalinity https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2012/03/08/clams-do-fine-in-acid-water/
If the tropospheric ozone concentration rises in the years ahead, it will likely impose a significant stress on regenerating aspen clones that will reduce their growth. However, if the atmospheric CO 2 concentration continues to rise, the negative impact of elevated ozone on aspen growth will be greatly reduced.
The eastern half of England, Cornwall, Scotland and Northern Ireland is in for temperatures above the 3.7C (38.6F) average, more than 2C warmer than last winter.