Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
His close links to Islam even if Obama isn't a full-fledged member of the Muslim Brotherhood, Al-Qaeda's parent organization, and he may be , he has still filled the U.S. government offices with tons of members of the Muslim Organization prevent him from clearly stating that it's the radical Islam that is significantly threatening America (and others) these days. He emits lots of fog about the identity of folks like the members of ISIS.
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Time magazine reported that focusing on the health effects of climate change, particularly on children, "produces the most emotionally compelling response." But that makes it no less illogical only more manipulative. Air quality and children's asthma are not reasons to #ActOnClimate, and the claim only adds to the bad information and confusion characterizing the climate issue.
The UK is expecting the heaviest snow in about 20 yearstomorrow . ??? Snow and freezing weather threaten to shut down BritainArctic blizzards are set to cause a national shutdown on Monday as forecasters warn of the most widespread snowfall for almost 20 years.?? ??? Now is the time you??d expect to see the daffodils coming out but we??re not expecting them for two or three weeks at best if it warms up. ??
Particular concerns have been raised about ?? the high latitude Eurasian trees (which have and anomalously low growth anomaly in the late 20th century ??? Tornetraesk, Fennoscandia, Yamal, Northern Urals in Table 1)
The NGO said the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy refused to release documents to back up director John Holdren's claim that global warming was making winters colder, a statement refuted by most scientists.
If you are criticizing Professor Mann, that is. But if he is criticizing you?well, then, that?s a different story.
El Nio generally brings hotter, drier weather to Australia and was responsible for the decade-long drought.
The actual rate of warming is modest and non-accelerating. A better title for a documentary about global warming would be: "Apocalypse Not!"
It writes that according to the German Marine Museum, 12 cadavers have appeared so far. According to whale researcher Stefan Brger:
Read here . As we have written about before , ethanol and other biofuels are not only economic disasters, they are also very harmful to the environment. As the actual science of biofuels is slipping out, these fuels actually can cause more CO2 emissions than the fossil fuels they are supposed to replace.
In a statement Friday, IPCC officials confirmed the authenticity of a leaked draft of the forthcoming Fifth Assessment Report on climate. Skeptics seized upon a chart within the document that compares past IPCC predictions with actual temperature readings. The scientific models of 1990s First Assessment Report forecast temperatures would rise fast, reaching alarming levels by 2010. The mercury refused to cooperate with the warming hypothesis that year. In 2012, temperatures also were frostier than the generous assumptions in each of the groups four previous reports.
The extreme variability of rainfall at Wakool is managed bygovernmentissuing irrigation licenses which are subject to seasonal allocations. When water is short, allocations are minimal or zero.
All this comes on top of last years revelation of the Climategate e-mails, which revealed equally shoddy practices (and efforts to suppress criticism) by scientists at the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia perhaps the single most important source of data that supposedly proved the most alarming claims of global warming.
The governor deflects accusations of an executive grab by claiming the executive order is nonbinding, but that defense doesn't square with the plain wording of the order, which stipulates that "Colorado state agencies shall implement strategies to achieve" greenhouse gas reductions.
With one day to go, February 2015??s average temperature is 14.5 degrees. That??s the coldest since 1875, when the average temperature was 12.2 degrees, according to the National Weather Service.
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Amplifications and Corrections : Last weeks TWTW discussed sea level rise, the uncertainty, and the possible acceleration of the rate of rise. Physicist Donald Rapp send a set of papers a making a powerful argument that It is possible that all (or most) of the claimed acceleration is due to ground water depletion, not global warming. He may be right. We appreciate all those who take the time to send amplifications and corrections.
It is important to understand at the outset that those of us who are skeptical of mankind?s influence on climate have a wide variety of views on the subject, and we can?t all be right. In fact, in this business, it is really easy to be wrong. It seems like everyone has a theory of what causes climate change. But it only takes one of us to be right for the IPCC?s anthropogenic global warming (AGW) house of cards to collapse.
We again see that pull to the middle effect. Perhaps simply because more thermometers can be created where there has been a thermometer longer? If so, that would bring into the present all that bias from the early years when there were not very many thermometers. As we saw in earlier pages, it takes time for the thermometer count for a location to rise high enough and to stabilize and start giving valid averages for an area. To the extent this stretch and reach infill process drags the past into more of the data set, and into the future, it will be dragging historical bias into the present more representative data.
If we open up more North American resources for development, we may very well shift long-term expectations on domestic supply and receive the benefits of lower prices even before the supplies come to market. We may even get some pleasant surprises, such as what we recently experienced with the shale gas revolution. New discoveries of shale gas, and breakthroughs in the technology of extraction, have pushed down natural gas prices between $4-$6 per thousand cubic feet (mcf) over the last three years. These lower prices have saved American consumers over $50 billion a year, according to data from the federal Energy Information Agency.
The abrupt climate change commencing 1200 1000 years ago is the most significant Antarctic climate event of the past 5000 years. Its onset is characterised by strengthening of the Amundsen Sea Low and the southern circumpolar westerlies with cooling both at Siple Dome. It is this event that provides the underpinning for centennial and perhaps shorter-scale natural variability upon which future climate change over Antarctica might operate.
Tantalisingly, a low band of grey sky to the Northeast suggests clear water lies not so many kilometres away. The grey colour is light reflected from open water. The early Antarctic explorers named this colour phenomenon water sky and used it to navigate their route through the treacherous pack ice
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The Democratic leadership falls short of promises to rein in "earmark" spending on pet projects for legislators' home districts.
U.S. cities confront the peak summer season for transmission of West Nile virus.
So when presented with warmer and drier conditions, trees in the Pacific Northwest appear to use less water and therefore the impact on streamflow is reduced, she added. In other parts of the country, forest regrowth after past logging and hurricanes thus far has a more definitive signal in streamflow reduction than have warming temperatures.
12 hours ago Wilkins runway near Casey Station, about 3,400 kilometres south-west of Hobart. AUSTRALIAS $46 million Antarctic airstrip is melting, leaving ...
A moments digging on Google shows that said Ms Frew rose to national prominence in Australia on the Sydney Morning Herald as environment correspondent. And that was primarily because her views are those of a climate change/greenie fanatic.
April and May should keep forecasters busy. In my first WeatherBell post, I discussed the potential for some very big severe weather days as is the case in La Nina years in a cold PDO (Pacific Decadal Oscillation). The Palm Sunday outbreak in 1965 and the Superoutbreak in 1974 were just two prime examples.
The second falsehood lie is that we must use clean energymeaning that which does not produce CO2. This premise is based on the theory that CO2 causes global warming, global warming is human-caused, and stopping CO2 emissions will save the planet.
The Earth has proven much less succeptible to runaway warming than previously believed. The so-called indirect trapping by evaporated water has been overstated by warming alarmists. (Source: Alaska in Pictures)
Japan, the world's fifth largest emitter, announced November 15 that it will back off on earlier pledges to reduce GHG emissions by 25% of 1990 levels with a new target that will result in 3% more GHG releases by 2020 than in 1990. China, the world's largest emitter, is embarking on the construction of large-scale, coal-fuelled synthetic natural gas (SNG) plants with far greater GHG releases than conventional natural gas plants. Finally, the Polish government is partnering with the World Coal Association to hold a major coal summit while the COP 19 talks are in session. Eliminating coal has been a major objective among past COP delegates.
Question: What is the magnitude of this bias in the analyses of the global surface temperature trends?
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Rising sea levels threaten every coastline. Reality: sea levels have been rising on and off since the end of the last ice age 13,000 years ago. The rate of sea level rise has not increased in recent decades over the nineteenth and twentieth century average.
Until and unless major oscillations in the Earth System (El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO), Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO), North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) and Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO) etc.) can be predicted to the extent that they are predictable, regional climate is not a well defined problem. It may never be. If that is the case then we should say so. It is not just the forecast but the confidence and uncertainty that are just as much a key.
Strong has never left any doubt where he places greatest blame for global climate and environmental problems, stating that "The United States is clearly the greatest risk to the world's ecological health."
The school building SeeCampus in Niederlausitz becomes completely overheated on summer days and is badly ventilated. Headaches and cardio-respiratory problems with pupils and teachers are the result. The number of sick days is climbing rapidly.
Climate Science Uncertainties Still Cloud Kyoto
In my paper I show that if this astronomical forcing modulates the cloud system in such a way that the albedo oscillates with amplitude of just 1-2%, this can explain most of the observed climate change also from an energetic point of view. The data show the existence of such modulation in the cloud cover and in the periods of solar dimming and brightening.
Meanwhile, Chinas new Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, is stepping in as the Americans and Europeans step back. Its willingness to fund coal projects is one of the reasons other Asian countries are rushing to join the project, to the irritation of Washington. The Australian government is joining forces with Japan to push for the construction of clean coal plants in the developing world power stations that burn coal more efficiently.
First, Seattle in the Duwamish Valley. Big spike from a background level of roughly 10 (micrograms per cubic meter) to 60, getting well into the range of being unhealthy for sensitive groups. (click on this or subsequent figures to enlarge).
I n the words of He et al . (2013), "understanding of climate variability under natural conditions could help improve projections of future climate change," while noting that the majority of temperature records from around the globe "show more or less similar patterns" that "can be roughly divided into a few warm and cold periods, such as the Current Warm Period after AD 1850, the Little Ice Age (LIA) between AD 1850 and AD 1400, and the Medieval Warm Period (MWP) or Medieval Climate Anomaly (MCA) between AD 1400 and AD 800 (e.g. Esper et al ., 2002; Mann and Jones, 2003; Moberg et al ., 2005; Mann et al ., 2009; Ge et al ., 2010)," while still longer records "show another warm/cold oscillation, namely the Dark Ages Cold Period (DACP) and the Roman Warm Period (RWP, Lamb, 1985)."
CEI Global Warming Lawsuit Draws Ire of Northeast State Attorneys General
Here . Excerpt: OTTAWA (Reuters) - Leaders of Canada's Arctic Inuit people denounced U.S. environmentalists on Monday for pushing Washington to declare the polar bear a threatened species, saying the move was unnecessary and would hurt the local economy.
If there was ever a reason for the U.S. to stop funding the U.N., this is it.
Instead of real energy for real jobs and revenues, President Obama wants to redouble spending on green energy extracting billions of dollars from still productive sectors of our economy, and transferring the money to crony corporatists and campaign contributors, whose operations are exempted from endangered species and other laws that are imposed routinely and punitively on oil, mining and other companies.
A 2007 visit by the FSHP to this "dilapidated" hospital, built in the 1800s, was "reminiscent of a scene from some of the poorest countries in the world," the cable adds.
Reality Check: Winter of 2008/09 Coldest Winter For A Decade
The National Climate Centres Dr Andrew Watkins says a new El Nio could be on the way.
Graph at left side shows temperature variations over the past 15,000 years, temperatures ~2C higher than the present during the early to mid Holocene.
My purpose here is not to comment on the merits of the EPA's proposals. Rather, it is to point out that these current disputes could have been avoided as far back as 1970 by following one simple maxim: The EPA should regulate outputs, not inputs. That approach derives from the sensible rules governing private lawsuits against polluters under the judge-made law of nuisance, which operates on a strict liability standard that does not allow a polluter to defeat liability by claiming that its emissions are cost justified. Instead, in all cases, the Court measures damages to victims solely by the amount of harm that the pollution causes, without considering the cost that private parties must incur to reduce or eliminate that pollution.
Right now, only 0.5% of the U.S. electricity is extracted from solar energy ??? and this number stayed this low despite the recent hysterical growth of this weak energy source. The wind energy yields a significantly greater fraction of the U.S. power, one approaching 5 percent.
But during the last few months the situation has altered substantially with temperatures in the central and eastern tropical Pacific surging upwards. NOAA and Australian forecasters are now saying we are in an official El Nino and it appears it will become moderate or strong this year.
We were told that the mild winters we experienced in Europe were due to global warming. Now, suddenly, we are getting hit with yet another nasty cold winter.
Granting more authority to the states will speed up development, increase GDP growth, and lower consumer costs. Over the past five years, the 30% increase in domestic oil production has occurred overwhelmingly on private and state lands. The amount of federal land leased for mineral rights decreased 20% since 2008. Only 38 million acres of federal land are now leased, compared to 131 million in 1984.
a) If the surface layers and deep sea is verladdade compared with tillstnden corresponding chemical jmvikt from one course a lngsam tergng to jmvikt vein in the atmosphere, but it does not depend on the carbon dioxide stays in the atmosphere but on the tillfrs from the oceans.
Ice coverage on the Great Lakes reached 85.4 percent on Feb. 18, marking the second winter in a row that ice coverage has exceeded 80 percent. This figure has fluctuated up and down slightly since then and was at 88.8 percent as of Feb. 28. Of course, last year the Great Lakes went on to record their second highest total ice coverage in records dating to 1973.
What are the prospects for a bipartisan approach to U.S. involvement in the major international initiatives?
CEI Experts Available to Comment: Adjunct Scholar Zachary Courser on how public perception has shaped the history of Wal-Mart.
As a result, unsuspecting business and home owners continue to buy, build and rebuild in areas that are increasingly at risk from hurricanes, northeasters and "perfect storms" of natural and political events. And as the population density increases in this NY-NJ area, the ability to evacuate people plummets, especially when roadways, tunnels and other escape routes are submerged. Let the buyer beware.
But if ice covered the earth all the way to the tropics during what is known as the Marinoan glaciation, how did the planet spring back from the brink of an ice apocalypse? Huiming Bao, Charles L. Jones Professor in Geology & Geophysics at LSU, might have some of the answers.
The continent has a long history of rainfall fluctuations of varying lengths and intensities. The worst droughts were those of the 1910s, which affected east and west Africa alike . They were generally followed by increasing rainfall amounts, but negative trends were observed again from 1950 onwards culminating, in West Africa, in 1984 .
But that's not the main issue. The main issue in the suit is Mann's appeal to authority in the first place. He cites the various government investigations as reasons why, as the DC Superior Court put it, "to question intellect and reasoning is tantamount to a accusation of fraud." Mann's goal is to make it a legally punishable offense to question a scientist's honesty or even his thinking method.
At the start of the analysis in 1984 the CO2 level was 344 ppmv, and at the end of 1997 it was 363 ppmv. If we take the IPCC value of 3.7 W/m2, this is a change in forcing of log(363/344,2) * 3.7 = 0.28 W/m2 per decade. If we assume the sensitivity determined in my analysis (0.08C per W/m2 for the NH), that gives us a trend of 0.02C per decade from CO2. This is smaller than the trend error for either the NH or the SH.
James Edward Kamis is a Geologist and AAPG member of 41 years and who has always been fascinated by the connection between Geology and Climate. Years of research / observation have convinced him that the Earths Heat Flow Engine, which drives the outer crustal plates, is also an important driver of the Earths climate.
It's not that this time members of the intellectual class have been swept away by passion and become votaries of anger and loathing. Alas, intellectuals have always been prone to employ their learning and fine words to whip up resentment and demonize the competition. Bush hatred, however, is distinguished by the pride intellectuals have taken in their hatred, openly endorsing it as a virtue and enthusiastically proclaiming that their hatred is not only a rational response to the president and his administration but a mark of good moral hygiene."
Not according to international law, by which the nations of the world have "common but differentiated responsibilities" to fix global warming. That's a diplomat's way of saying that 30 developed countriesout of 193 statesare responsible for global warming, because they have been emitting GHGs longer than the other 160 countries.
I cannot speak for The News Hour, but I do know that for me and most other journalists covering climate change, there came a time when scientists like Singer and Michaels no longer were credible.
Maybe. More than anything, it brings to mind the joke that a New York Times headline on Armageddon would read: "World Ends, Women and Minorities Hit Hardest."
Of course, it is possible that EPA simply doesn't have enough resources to meet its congressionally-directed responsibilities. I investigate this possibility in the study by reviewing EPA's priorities as set forth in the budgeting process. The evidence demonstrates that the EPA never has given priority to timely performance of its date-certain duties. Instead, the EPA's budgets over the last 15 years have placed increasing importance on fighting climate change, which is largely a discretionary choice.
The actual implementation of the rules would not apply to cars and trucks made before the 2008 model year." Pavely argues that "We need to do our fair share as the fifth-biggest economy in the world," especially since President Bush has refused to submit the Kyoto Protocol to the Senate for ratification.
Conscience is not a passive barrier but an active force; though it can hold us back, it can also drive us on. Moreover, conscience comes not from without but from within: though culture can trim the fringes, the core cannot be changed. The reason things get worse so fast must somehow lie not in the weakness of conscience but in its strength, not in its shapelessness but in its shape.
But the point of PR isn't to talk about nonlinear operators; instead, the state-dependent operators are meant to be completely linear. But their precise form matrix elements vis-a-vis a basis someone gave you depends on the "situation". You may try to "beat" this state-dependence by defining operators that apply to all situations and that are allowed to be nonlinear. But you should not do such a thing because this goes totally against the lesson you should have learned from the state dependence. The lesson is that you should only use some field-like operators for a neighborhood of a microstate only for a limited subspace which is obtained from a given microstate by a simple action of a polynomial or another simple function of field operators.
These arguments have merit but must be measured against the reality of carbon growth. Consider China: Its carbon emissions increased by an average 8.6% a year between 2002 and 2012. Were China to continue at this pace for 27 years until it reaches today's U.S. GDP per capita, it would emit 99 gigatons of carbon in 2041 alone, or three times the world's current emissions.
If the EPA proceeds with the regulation of heat-trapping gases, factories, small businesses and institutions would be subject to costly regulation...
In a telephone interview, Smith summed up these facts by simply saying that "while we can talk about mature or relatively undisturbed rainforest, there is no such thing as virgin tropical rain forest any more."
And furthermore, Hockey Schtick reports on a new paper that shows an ice sheet on the northern tip of Greenland has remained unchanged or grown slightly in the last few years:
Romm Man Made CO2 Equals 36.5 Billion Nuclear Bombs Per Century
Consider some of the ways in which environmental behaviors echo religious behaviors and thus provide meaningful rituals for Greens:
It appears that Osborn had no valid answer to these questions as his answers were either unresponsive or evasive or attacks on me. First, here is Osborns answer as to why they didnt use the Shiyatov data:
Adjusting facts to fit the theory: road to harmony or hypocrisy?
The costs of regulations are factored into the products we buy everyday. As regulations become more and more burdensome on businesses, the more expensive our products become. From high tech electronics, such as smartphones, to grocery store purchases like deodorant, the cost of regulations are passed on to us, the consumer.
5. CFLs contain tiny amounts of mercury, and so EPA has a four-step program on how to clean up a broken CFL! First step: "Open a window and leave the room for 15 minutes or more." I suspect EPA is overdoing it, but who am I to argue?
Although considerably colder, Antarctica ice cores reveal a slight warming over the last 1,300 years. Yet the Vostok ice core indicates that over the last 5,000 years there were periods when temperatures were above present time, considerably (below chart).
reconstruction??? It would help the cause to be able to refer to that