Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
Scientist A gets paid by Person B to say something scientific, C. If A does not believe in C, then A is dishonest. There is a commandment about bearing false witness, so this is as basic a sin as there is. Person B is complicit. The larger the payment, the worse it appears. But what if Scientist A believes in C, then there is no lie. Moreover if B only gives money to help A express C, then B supports a truth, even more so if B does not care one way or the other about C.
The majority of the Mandurah to Fremantle sector does not appear to be susceptible to coastal erosion over the next century, despite the fact that the Tamala Limestone is preserved below sea level across the majority of the area. This is due to the fact that this sector has been the primary depositional province for the Swan coast over the last 8,000 years.
The American Interest; The global solar industry is in shambles. Consumers can find Chinese panels for relatively cheap (though of questionable quality), but every step of the production chain is being propped up by government subsidies. American panel makers are folding, but so too are Chinese manufacturers, and Beijing's central planners won't be able to keep them afloat forever.
Half the models follow a wetter trend, and half a drier trend.
He doesn?t want to ?transform? America. He wants to destroy it.
Climate "Consensus" Opiate, The 97% Solution
Unlike other oil companies, which have good records of safety and avoiding spills when it comes to oil drilling, BP has a bad record, earning it the label of "serial environmental criminal" from critics. The Obama administration granted BP a waiver of environmental regulations in April 2009, yet it blocked Louisiana from protecting its coastline against the oil spill by delaying rather than expediting regulatory approval of essential protective measures. It has also chosen not to use what has been described as "the most effective method" of fighting the spill, a method successfully used in other oil spills. Democratic strategist James Carville called Obama's handling of the oil spill "lackadaisical" and "unbelievable" in its "stupidity."
So to say there is a consensus about some global warming is true; to say there is a consensus about dangerous global warming is false.
Sea level has been rising at 0.0 mm per year in California, leading to the complete collapse of the real estate market.
Dr. Roy Spencer from The University of Alabama at Huntsville presented a special seminar at CU Boulder in the CIRES Auditorium today Theabstract and pdfof hispresentation are available below.
Bauman et al. published a peer-reviewed study regarding corals in the southern Persian Gulf area, which found corals to be hardy and resilient to extreme temperature fluctuations. Their research confirms what other coral studies have found:
During the cool PDO mode, ocean surface temperatures in the eastern Pacific are cool. This was typical of the global cooling from 1945 to 1977. During the warm PDO, ocean surface temperatures in the eastern Pacific are warm. This was typical of the global warming from 1977 to 1998. The abrupt shift of the Pacific from the cool mode to the warm mode in a single year (1977) and the beginning of the last warm cycle has been termed the Great Pacific Climate shift. There is a direct correlation between PDO mode and global temperature
Read here . Recently, NASA's James Hansen rounded up some exceptionally gullible and dim-witted teenagers to do legal battle for him in court . Hansen speculates that human CO2 increases will raise global temperatures so much that positive feedbacks occur causing a runaway global warming "tipping point."
The Romney vision, by contrast, actually works. Bain Capital investments brought us Staples, The Sports Authority, Steel Dynamics and many other success stories. More recently, on the energy front, America's private sector ingenuity, sweat and perseverance launched new technologies and discoveries that abruptly ended the myths of "peak oil" and "imminent depletion" of U.S. and global petroleum.
So, to me, just looking at the Degree Day map explains a great deal about our Global Warming. Weve moved the thermometers to where the people are located, down in the valleys, and put them at the airports where solar heating works really really well on black tarmac. But go out in the country and its not so hot and as in the case of Washington, its even below average and quite cold.
It is hard to be too confident about the temperature record from 1850, to mention an example. I am not sure whether it's almost correct or almost completely wrong. But the agreement between the different datasets that treat the homogenization and other issues differently NASA's GISS, NOAA's NCDC, the Japanese global dataset, BEST, and Hadley Centre + Met Office's HadCRUT4 leads me to believe that all the methods that these surface weather station scientists apply to the raw data are basically right.
One more interesting note - this story started out as a post on the Baltimore Sun's environment blog. When Drudge linked to it, the result was the now familiar Drudge-a-lanche of mostly like-minded readers. It seems that those readers left so many comments calling the protesters idiots that the Sun felt the need to add a disclaimer at the end of the post: "(Note: this story was featured on the Drudge Report soon after it went online this evening, and so many of the comments you'll see below are from readers who came to this blog from that web page)." Thanks for the warning - we wouldn't want anyone to think that real people were leaving those comments. Just Drudge Report readers.
Sign of the times: In today's St Paul Pioneer Press , yesterday's global warming scare propaganda rates only a paragraph on page 16A, after the octuplet mom and before layoffs at Billy Graham One of the authors, Michael Oppenheimer, a professor of geosciences and international affairs at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School, said, "The more we learn about the problem, the more severe the risk becomes and the nearer it looms. Cutting emissions of the greenhouse gases promptly is the surest way to reduce the risk, and that's how governments should be responding."
2 There is obviously a lot more to say on this subject, but well leave it for another time.
Figure 5 presents in absolute terms the TOA outgoing shortwave radiation of the 21 individual CMIP5-archived models with historic and RCP6.0 forcings. The thing that stands out most is the wide range of model-manufactured values. Based on the 1996-2015 averages, theres about a 10 watts/m^2 span from the model with the minimum average to the model with the maximum, while there was only a 3 watts/m^2 span in the amount of incoming sunlight (Figure 3).
UPDATE: The Australian groupthink machine (otherwise known as the ABC) desperately tries to find an alarmist story to keep Durban relevant and the Cause alive despite all the collapsing wreckage of climate hysteria strewn around them.
Indur Goklany examinesthe World Health Organisations recent report on climate change and findsthat its estimates of future mortality from global warming are grossly exaggerated. Full paper (PDF)
"We are, in effect, bulldozing the Gardens of Eden." Al Gore, Earth in the Balance, p. 144
David Bier: Real reform for legal immigration means making it easier particularly for short-term workers, and the only way that will happen is if Obama stands up to unions. But is he really willing to do that? Not so far. Unions want regulated immigration, not free market immigration.
The five researchers report that changes associated with both management, its absence, and the 1998 ENSO were found, but they say that the changes were generally small and that ecological measures indicated stability or improvements over the period of their study. In fact, they state that northern Tanzania reefs have exhibited considerable resilience and in some cases improvements in reef conditions in the face of dire global predictions for overfishing, climate change, and their interaction.
Joe DAleo shows the relationship between these ocean cycles and US temperatures.
This would explain why sea ice around Antarctica has been growing, reaching the greatest-ever recorded extent in 2010, it suggested.
Abundant CO2 also increases the biomass, numbers and total surface area of lateral roots and fine-roots, enabling plants to absorb more water and soil nutrients, and obtain sufficient phosphorus even when it is in short supply in soils. Carbon dioxide also stimulates nitrogen fixation, helping plants to form stronger symbiotic relationships with nitrogen-fixing soil bacteria, further increasing photosynthetic rates.
The global warming pause was first identified by sceptics such as Mike Haseler (aka Scottish Sceptic) as early as 2005 but is first recorded in the climategate submissions of 2009. The pause was used to refer to the lack of predicted warming in the available temperature datasets. For example, by mid 2015, the satellite record showed no warming in 18 years and none of the available datasets showed even the lowest predicted warming of the IPCC report in 2001 (0.14/decade). The pause was hugely important because it showed that the temperature predictions were not coming true. This, together with the failure of predictions of increasing severe weather, flooding droughts and the refreezing of global sea ice leaving no overall trend in the period of available data, suggested that either the predictions were wrong, or that large amounts of long term variation were present in the real atmosphere and not included in the models, or both.
According to a paper in the journal Geophysical Research Letters ice melting in the Arctic Ocean will cause a large decline in winter rain and snowpack in California, resulting in future water shortages. These results were based solely on the output of the National Center for Atmospheric Research's climate model. Unfortunately, the authors of that research didn't check their modeled results against actual data. If they had, they would have found that there is no correlation between the amount of Arctic sea ice and winter precipitation in the western U.S. In fact, even as global-average surface temperatures have risen during the last few decades, U.S. precipitation has been rising as well.
Todays post is at Pajamas Media: The VAT Man Cometh: It Will Happen. How Bad Is It?
The benefits of the rainforest First and foremost, tropical rainforests "are home to a vast biological array of living organisms and support more plant and animal species per unit area, as well as overall, than any other ecosystem on earth." Current estimates of the total number of living species on the planet range from five to 30 million or more, of which only 1.4 million have been described by scientists. More than two-thirds of these species come from tropical rain forests, basically because the forest are home to the most species-rich groups in the world anthropods and flowering plants.
There is one linear chaotic climate state, however, that all can predictably count on. Don't expect any good news so long as many billions of taxpayer dollars reward agenda-driven political science fear mongering.
The IPCC-projected rise of up to 1m by the end of this century would require an average rate of up to 12mm/yr for the rest of this century, some four times the current rate, and an order of magnitude larger than implied by the 20 th century acceleration of 0.01mm/yr found in some studies. What drives the projected sea level rise? To what extent is it dependent upon a continued rise in Global Mean Surface Temperature?
"I have over 400 players now who are members of Global United Football Club, the likes of Pavel Nedved, Zinedine Zidane, George Weah and Lothar Matthus."
Dirty Facts Behind Obamas Clean Power Plan
TRD is no accurate thermometers, but we have indications on that it was very large svngningar during the same periods, says Hans Linderholm.
That will hammer everything we make, grow, ship, eat and do. It will impair our livelihoods, living standards, liberties and life spans. And these destructive rules are being imposed by callous, imperious, unelected, unaccountable federal bureaucrats who are circumventing our laws and Constitution; disregarding the clear will of Congress, which has rejected nearly 700 climate bills; and colluding regularly with radical Big Green pressure groups on sue-and-settle lawsuits and new regulatory edicts.
You can dive deeper into this historic beer milestone by viewing the Brewers Association's interactive timeline of US breweries from 1873-2015.
Case of high-speed rail grows only stronger:
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Department of Interior, and the Department of Labor are all promulgating stringent emission standards for new power plants that would effectively prohibit construction of new coal-fired electricity generating capacity unless it is equipped with carbon-capture technologya prohibitively costly technological requirement.
Earlier today, I was wondering if the motivation was to get more Hollywood glamour in their lives. The old world glamour of royalty, heavy crystal, and gowns must be getting old, but this is the political cynic in me speaking.
Lubchenco said her agency already receives millions of requests each year for the type of information the proposed climate service would provide, and we fully expect requests for information to grow explosively.
It is not in our national self-interest to try and bear the costs of global warming by ourselves. For a wealthy, cold, non-agrarian, stable country such as ours, it is unclear whether we even stand that much to lose from a rise in temperatures. There have been several studies that suggest the costs of mitigating climate change exceed the benefits in a country such as the United States ? work by William Nordhaus and Robert Mendelsohn of Yale, Richard Tol of Carnegie Mellon, Melissa Dell and Benjamin Olken of MIT, and others, suggest this outcome is likely.
The UAH satellite-based global temperature dataset has reached 1/3 of a century in length, a milestone we marked with a press release in the last week (e.g. covered here ).
The Environmental Protection Agency ?protects? us from ?toxic chemicals? by moving their goalposts. The EPA can multiply the ?no effect level? in rat tests by 100 or even 1000 to set the ?acceptable daily intake.? Thus, they can declare just about any chemical they choose too toxic for our children.
The bar heights show how many models in Table 9.5 exhibit each level of TCR
When updated to 2006, the trends in ice extent and area in the Antarctic remains slight but positive at 0.9 0.2 and 1.7 0.3% per decade.
So why tout nuclear power now? Former Democratic National Committee chairman Ed Rendell told Sean Hannity last night that the nuclear line was a bone thrown to Republicans in the name of bipartisan outreach. Along with opening up limited areas offshore for oil and gas drilling, saying yes to nuclear power is a bid to attract some GOPers to support the president's manifestly unpopular initiatives, such as cap-and-trade.
How can climate scientists/modelers hope to simulate the patterns of warming on land when they cant simulate the warming patterns of the largest ocean on this planet?
Despite official opposition, underground markets for consumer goods in Cuba continue to flourish.
6 Alexander George, Forceful Persuasion: Coercive Diplomacy as an Alternative to War, 1991.
The Hooker 100 inch telescope was then showing farthest light sources to be moving at 25,000 miles per second. Dr Hubble, during his 1936 interview, stated that he was willing to abandon the expanding universe to mathematical cosmologistspending erection of the 200 inch Palomar telescopewhich may finally settle the question.
Will courts overturn the CPP? That may well depend on whether judges decide the case on the merits oras in recent Obamacare rulingsconclude that presidential legacy policies are "too big to fail.'
Rather than re-examining the climate data and concluding there really isnt an imminent catastrophe coming, the alarmists still continue to insist its real and are now coming togetherto produce positive visions in group therapy a sort of Alarmists Anonymous . The TAZ quotes psychologist Gerd Weling of the Transition Town Bielefeld:
Mr. Chairman, Kyoto apologists would have us believe that the "consensus of scientists" has spoken, that global warming poses a "mortal threat" to human life,7 and that we must therefore waste no time making preparations and plans to de-carbonize the U.S. and other national economies. In reality, the case for an international climate treaty rests on an ensemble of hypotheses that are highly questionable.
Meanwhile, the British government has cut funding for its Warm Front heating assistance program from $470 million this year to $172 million in 2011, Consumer Focus campaigner Jonathan Stearn angrily noted. And because the winds barely blow during the coldest weather, Britain's "shiny new green" turbines were able to supply only "one-500th of the exceptionally large demand" for electricity during the frigid weather of early December, Sunday Times columnist Dominic Lawson ruefully observed.
15a. Current state of scientific knowledge allow for a reasonable assessment of the effects of turbulence
January 2008 Environment & Climate News: Special Edition!
The fact is that America's immigrant "problem" is a prime example of government failure. Immigrants have historically been among the most hard-working and valued members of American society. Yet thanks to a variety of perverse incentives -- from welfare systems to incompetent immigration bureaucracies -- immigrants are now far more likely to seek an undocumented route into this country. Their illegal status drives them into a shadowy world where interaction with authorities is discouraged, where antisocial activities like drug smuggling thrive.
According to Al Gore in "Earth in the Balance," "Wherever rain forests are found, they are under siege. They are being burned to clear land for pasture; they are being clear-cut with chain saws for lumber; they are being flooded by hydroelectric dams to generate power." (Gore, PP. 117-118)
The models all reckon the feedbacks amplify the warming, but three independent sources of empirical evidence suggests the opposite occurs, and that the feedbacks are negative (ie. they dampen). In that case the headline threat reads Half a Degree .
Heres the ugly truth. Its simple, blunt, and bitter. Nothing is sustainable. Oh, like the sailors say, the wind is free. As is the sunshine. But everything else we mine or extract to make everything from shovels to cell phones will run out. The only question is, will it run out sooner, or later? Because nothing is sustainable. Sustainable Development is just an airy-fairy moonbeam fantasy, a New Age oxymoron. In the real world, it cant happen.I find the term sustainable development useful for one thing only.
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As legendary crime-fighting Police Chief William Bratton stated, tough immigration enforcement hurts local police "because immigrants living and working in our communities are afraid to have any contact with the police . . . can't prevent or solve crimes if victims or witnesses are unwilling to talk to us for fear of being deported."
Switch to carbon-free energy sources as much as possible and adapt to changes already underway.
A review of Steyns scathing new book about Michael Mann: A Disgrace To The Profession
Thanks to that program, and you can make a list of items similar or shared between the biology and genetics of Soviet Lysenko and ideas to us contemporaneee about a global warming of anthropogenic origin (commonly referred to with the acronym AGW):
any extra CO2 is already increasing the fertility and reducing water needs of all plant life and thus enhancing world food production.
Polar bear habitat more Arctic sea ice in Canada this week than in early 1970s
There must be something unique to the concerns of the white working class, then, that liberal progressivism rubs the wrong way. What might that be?
Actually, yes. Both are outspoken public advocates of alarm, and Wielicki has gone so far as to retract results once they were shown to contradict alarm.
How is it that the IPCC's numbers show a nice clear "hockey-stick" warming trend where other research shows the world getting colder? Prof. Phil Jones succinctly explains in one of the leaked emails:
Just remember when you hear people complaining about cuts to government spending, that we can still afford to help Tanzanians make "climate change awareness" films.
In 2006, As You Sow pressured Apple Computer via shareholder resolution about its supposedly "insensitive" recycling program. Though Apple CEO Steve Jobs disputed the allegations and the resolution was soundly defeated by Apple shareholders, the company nevertheless began kow-towing to environmental activists on the recycling issue. But Apple's appeasement hasn't bought it anything; As You Sow re-filed the same resolution for 2007.
SCIENTISTS at the University of East Anglia (UEA) have admitted throwing away much of the raw temperature data on which their predictions of global warming are based.
"This is just lobbying by science and press release all leading up to this big UN climate summit coming in December.
If your engine needs to deliver energy output at a certain level, the ethanol biofuel mandate is actually diminishing the available energy output from the ethanol-type fuel. The reason is easy to understand: both bio-ethanol and bio-diesel are, energetically speaking, already partly combusted hydrocarbons. Therefore, they cannot possibly deliver the same amount of energy as un-combusted fuel. Your fuel consumption will increase to compensate for that. Even if that were not a critical issue, ethanol in fuel can cause other problems in your vehicle.
(Ill try to head off an argument: The title of Booth et al. (2012) Aerosols implicated as a prime driver of twentieth-century North Atlantic climate variability explains their findings. Refer to the discussion of Booth et al. (2012) under the heading of ON THE HADGEM2-ES AMO SIMULATION in the post here . The HADGEM2-ES model used by Booth et al. (2012) does a pretty poor job of simulating the AMO as shown in the illustration here from that post. Booth et al. also failed to account for a couple of other factors that drive the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation.)
To reduce global greenhouse gas emissions in a less costly manner, America could assist China and India in developing shale gas from hydrofracturing and building natural gas-fired plants to reduce their reliance on coal. Or America could ship coal to China, because U.S. coal burns more cleanly.
This article first appeared in the New York Post, December 5, 2013.
5.	"Time is pressing. Climate change has begun already." Climate change has existed for millennia, because climate is always changing.
- New research findings on the sun, including records of changes in the sun's magnetism (and therefore its energy output) reaching back some 1,000 years, suggest a major natural influence on surface temperatures of the earth.
Chambliss said he recently spent time with NSA officials and was assured that the programs Greenwald describes have been exaggerated.
* Continuing scientific dispute exists over whether observations are confirming or disconfirming key short-run predictions of climate models ??? such as an increase in tropospheric water vapor and an increase in tropical tropospheric surface temperatures relative to tropical surface temperatures;
Ideally, such a fund should be paid into by all developed and semi-developed countries on a fair basis, such as an equal fraction of GDP. If climate change is shown to be a non-threat, or a modest one, or some cheap ways of removing carbon from the air turn up, those monies could be returned to the tax-payers of the donating countries.
Peter Lang is a retired geologist and engineer with 40 years experience on a wide range of energy projects throughout the world, including managing energy R&D and providing policy advice for government and opposition. His experience includes: hydro, geothermal, nuclear, coal, oil, and gas plants and a wide range of energy end use management projects.