Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
Restricting greenhouse gas emissions, whether unilaterally or multilaterally, would result in significant economic costs for the U.S. economy. This is a serious decision with grave consequences. The U.S. should not unilaterally assume these burdens as a symbolic gesture hoping that other countries might emulate our examplerepeated U.N. negotiations demonstrate the small likelihood of that outcome.
Editor's note: Roger Bezdek coauthored this piece.
Ordinarily, she added, without fresh air coming in, it would become harder and harder for living things to thrive, ???yet in the case of the corals in Palau, we??re finding the opposite. Coral cover and diversity actually increase from the outer reefs into the Rock Islands.??
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To produce that biofuel, we're also using massive quantities of pesticides, fertilizers, fossil fuels and water. The U.S. Department of Energy calculates that fracking requires 0.6 to 6.0 gallons of fresh or brackish water per million Btu of energy produced. By comparison, corn-based ethanol requires 2,500 to 29,000 gallons of fresh water per million Btu of energy and biodiesel from soybeans consumes an astounding and unsustainable 14,000 to 75,000 gallons of water per million Btu!
These include small airborne particles known as aerosols from volcanic eruptions that have a cooling effect as they reflect sunlight back into space; the impact of the regular cycle of solar activity; the sensitivity of the climate to greenhouse gases, and the way the oceans absorb heat.
"That wasn't the only nonsensical idea he presented," the scientists told me.
It seems that each side felt there were things that they could not afford to lose and last year's bill contained them. On the Republican side, as well as certain measures to promote affordable energy, there was the consideration of giving the President some sort of energy bill to sign. On the Democrat side, Minority Leader Tom Daschle (S.D.) had already written to the President suggesting that the energy bill was dying and asking for some form of bill mandating the expanded use of ethanol as a gasoline additive. Clean Air Trust director Frank O'Donnell accused Daschle in an article for TomPaine.com on Aug. 5 of putting the price of corn (from which ethanol is manufactured) above environmentalist concerns.
The standstill is a reality and is not the result of cherry-picking start and end points. Its commencement can be seen clearly in the data, and it continues to this day, said Dr David Whitehouse, the author of the new report.
The July 2008 package is a stepping stone on the way to concluding the Doha Round. Consultations took place among a group of ministers representing all interests in the negotiations in Geneva, Switzerland, from Jul. 21 to Jul. 30, 2008.
The precision achieved by the most advanced generation of radiation budget satellites is indicated by the planetary energy imbalance measured by the ongoing CERES (Clouds and the Earths Radiant Energy System) instrument (Loeb et al., 2009), which finds a measured 5-yr-mean imbalance of 6.5Wm 2 (Loeb et al., 2009). Because this result is implausible, instrumentation calibration factors were introduced to reduce the imbalance to the imbalance suggested by climate models , 0.85Wm 2 (Loeb et al., 2009).
As researchers have come to a better understanding of the workings of climate, the projections have changed substantially. For example, the middle-range estimates of global temperature increase over the next 100 years from the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) have dropped significantly, from 3.3 C in 1990 to 2 C in the 1995 report.18
Several bills related to global warming are being promoted on Capitol Hill. The most recent is the Administration's package of energy efficiency taxes, introduced by Rep. Bob Matsui (D-Cal.). The bill is a $3.6 billion plan to give tax breaks to consumers who buy energy efficient homes, cars, water heaters, and rooftop solar systems. It also encourages the use of other renewable energies (U.S. Newswire, June 29, 1990).
Of course, there's nothing new about actors taking political stands. It's been going on at least since John Wilkes Booth. But lately the whole thing seems to have reached a new level. Just look at the last election. Carl Sagan would have had trouble counting the stars in Gore's campwhich included Cher, Ben Affleck, Martin Sheen, Whoopi Goldberg, and many more.
Pauses as long as 15 years are rare in the simulations, and we expect that warming will resume in the next few years, the Hadley Centre group writes. Researchers agree that no sort of natural variability can hold off greenhouse warming much longer.
The article, by Walter Pincus and R. Jeffrey Smith, purported to summarize the conclusions of a report by the Pentagon's inspector general, beginning with the news that..
As a footnote, an impact with the ice sheet and its catastrophic effects could explain the other primary explanation of the source for the Younger Dryas. An asteroid strike leaving one or more craters in the Great Lakes area could have resulted in a rush of fresh water flowing either north into the Arctic or out the St Lawrence Seaway and shutting down the North Atlantic conveyor transporting heat from the equator. Thus, the two theories would merge into a progressive explanation of the sudden cooling, its long duration and the deaths of the megafauna.
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As the models have improved, the amount of predicted global warming has gone down. In 1990, the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), using then state-of-the-art models, forecast a 3.2 C warming by 2100. In 1995, the IPCC lowered that forecast to 2.0 C.
Back in February 2009, when everyone thought a deep depression was imminent, Keynesian economists and their political boosters demanded big government spending. According to their calculations, a timely, targeted, and temporary infusion of taxpayer money would defibrillate our moribund economy, the growth of which would make the trillion-dollar price tag seem like small potatoes. It was elementary!
"Since there is no permanent disposal facility, spent fuel from the nation's nuclear reactors"enough to fill a football field 17 meters deep' according to a 2012 Government Accountability Office reportis currently being stored at dozens of above-ground sites. The GAO expects the amount of radioactive waste to double to 140,000 by 2055 when all of the currently operating nuclear reactors are retired."
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The Houston Chronicle editorial page is one of the most biased in the nation when it comes to climate alarmism and associated public-policy activism. And it maintained that unenviable reputation with last Sundays op-ed, Cap-and-Trade-Off .
Czech army physician returns NATO medals
5) Because of environmental issues, and the fact that it is not carbon free anyway, biomass is regarded as only a short term solution, and it seems unlikely there will be any more significant expansion beyond those already planned.
Evie Hudak resigns: Colorado state senator avoids recall election The Denver Post
This post addresses why they peak at that time. But in order to show it, we have to discuss sea surface temperatures, not anomalies. Keep that in mind, please.
This makes it pretty useless to the great unwashed who still have not worked out how to program their video recorders.
It is well known that Enron was a keen enthusiast for limits on carbon dioxide emissions under the aegis of a cap and trade scheme, which would enable companies to trade permits for the right to emit carbon dioxide. Enron documents released to the public reveal that executives thought such restrictions would, "do more to promote Enron's business than almost any other regulatory initiative outside of restructuring the energy and natural gas industries in Europe and the United States." We can now see why. In Europe, such a scheme has been introduced, and the energy companies and their advisers are very happy.
THE WORD religion is often used, rather effectively, to demonise a category of people who hold a strong conviction about something and propose to translate that belief into action. Global warming is a new religion and blasphemy against that religion is not a laughing matter, Lord Lawson has said, adding that there is a great gap in Europe with the decline of any real belief in Marxism and any real belief in Christianity. This has filled the vacuum.
Ocean Currents : Are the major ocean currents, such as the THC (Thermohaline Circulation), understood? Well we do know a lot about them ??? we know where they go and how big they are, and what is in them (including heat), and we know much about how they affect climate ??? but we know very little about what changes them and by how much or over what time scale. In summary ??? Understood? No. Contribution in the models : 0%.
Carbon capture project is a big risk, says SSE boss
Check out the latest from the Salt Guru about the claim that 2.3 million die annually because of their dietary salt intake.
Herein lies an opportunity " for Republicans " who should recognize that Democrats are overreaching. It s not simply that Democrats are missing the big issue " the feverish rise of health-care costs " but that they are prescribing a series of unhelpful measures.
The Natural Resources Defense Council, for instance, was able to get an injunction on the U.S. Navy's use of ship-tracking sonar technology in training exercises because the noise allegedly disturbed whales and dolphins, and this adversely affected NRDC members' "scientific, recreational, and ecological interests." (The injunction would be later be overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court in Winter v. NRDC.) And in Massachusetts v. EPA, the Bay State was able to get standing for its suit to require the Environmental Protection Agency to limit carbon-dioxide emissions because of alleged injuries to the state in terms of land that would be lost because of global warming in approximately 100 years.
The above chart plots the NOAA/NCDC U.S. dataset decade-end temperature changes, including the change over the 10-year period ending 2013. Stating the perfectly obvious, the infamous consensus experts' "unequivocal" warming is anything but. In spite of massive human CO2 emissions, a recent state of cooling changes dominate in the U.S. (see last two blue columns).
Lord Monckton said: ?The entire monthly satellite temperature record since January 1979 is 422 months long. For almost the entire second half of the record ? 210 months ? there has been no global warming.?
A British father has reportedly found copies of an unreleased Harry Potter novel in a field in southern England.
18) How Important are Computerized Climate Models? I consider climate models as being our best way of exploring cause and effect in the climate system. It is really easy to be wrong in this business, and unless you can demonstrate causation with numbers in equations, you are stuck with scientists trying to persuade one another by waving their hands. Unfortunately, there is no guarantee that climate models will ever produce a useful prediction of the future. Nevertheless, we must use them, and we learn a lot from them. My biggest concern is that models have been used almost exclusively for supporting the claim that humans cause global warming, rather than for exploring alternative hypotheses ? e.g. natural climate variations ? as possible causes of that warming.
Many of the devastating floods that occur in parts of Southeast Asia are also associated with typhoons or tropical systems. See the typhoon section for more information.
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Epstein's book is more than just philosophical opinion. It is based on documented facts regarding fossil fuel use. At one point he quotes Paul Ehrlich who, in his 1968 book, The Population Bomb, declared that "the battle to feed humanity is over." Epstein notes that in 1968 the world's population was 3.6 billion people. "Since then it has doubled, yet the average person is better fed than he was in 1968. This seeming miracle was due to a combination of the fossil fuel industry and genetic science " Farming today is mechanized and that requires fuel!
"When the sea of societal ills is so shallow that "phone calls I don't like" is scraped from the bottom and added to the legislative agenda, when the public tolerance for disagreeable things has dropped so low that "I have to hold my breath" is a complaint worthy of the commiseration of 100,000 radio listeners, we have a problem."
Quoting the six scientists, "among the 35 CGCMs, 14 models erroneously produce an upwelling dome in the eastern half of the basin whereas the observed Seychelles Dome is located in the southwestern tropical Indian Ocean." In addition, they report that "the annual mean Ekman pumping velocity in these models is found to be almost zero in the southern off-equatorial region," which finding, as they describe it, "is inconsistent with observations, in which Ekman upwelling acts as the main cause of the Seychelles Dome."
The oil spill, of course, has even broader implications than climate change. There will be major economic fallout, which will add substantially to government costs for disaster relief and to ameliorate the economic effects of the spill, especially if it spreads across the Gulf and potentially up the East Coast. This will add to deficits for this year and next and make the budget plans for both chambers more complicated. And if, as some experts fear, the economic costs will be substantial and sustained, it could create another dip in the economy, requiring possibly another stimulus.
Secondly, as I said in my talk, but as Abraham very carefully failed to point out in his, both sides of this particular argument have been carefully heard in the impartial forum of the British High Court. The British Government, unsuccessfully attempting to defend Gore on this point, had eventually been compelled when confronted with what the IPCC actually says about several millennia to concede that Gore's 20 feet of sea-level rise was a flagrant exaggeration.
The Democratic party is comfortable talking about the issue and well positioned to address it. In some ways, the current debacle seems to vindicate their failed efforts of the early 1990s. Moreover, the party is by far the more trusted in this area: In the last Wall Street Journal/NBC poll on issues, Americans choose Democrats on health care over Republicans by a 37-percent margin (the largest gap on any issue, save global warming). Which is why Barack Obama " and every other Democrat " is talking about health care again.
The model mean does not present that additional warming in the North Atlantic, which indicates that the recent additional warming of the North Atlantic has occurred naturally; that is, the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation is not a process forced by factors that are used to make the oceans warm in the models. Well discuss and illustrate this later in this post.
Now, after the Clean Power Plan was announced, Abengoa is trying revive a project that previously failed to pass permitting in time to qualify for subsidies. With more money available, it likely wants the additional funding the Palen Solar Power Project would provide.
The black line, on the other hand, is the change in downwelling radiation expected from the change in CO2 from 2000 to 2012, calculated at 21 W/m2 per doubling of CO2. As you might imagine because of its steady increase, there is little difference between the CO2 data and the CO2 trendline, so Ive left it off. For the same reason, there is virtually no error in the trend in downwelling radiation expected from CO2. The result is an expected increase in downwelling surface radiation of no less than 1.6 0.007 W/m2 per decade. Over the period of the CERES data, it totals almost 2 W/m2, which in terms of the precision of the individual CERES datasets should certainly be visible.
Palls of smoke can still be seen billowing from the premises , which are based at the former Hepworth ironworks off the A616.
Lost in this arithmetic is the reality that anything is toxic in too large a dose, including salt and sunlight. ?The dose makes the poison,? as Paracelsus told us 500 years ago.
SEIU Local 1000 exec argues for contract ratification:
This diminishing influence of a new CO2 molecule over time is actually a function of known climate physics - the logarithmic effect of carbon dioxide. Essentially, from lab testing it was determined that increasing levels of CO2 caused a diminishing returns effect, which is better described here .
I caught up with Fayyad on a Saturday morning in the village of Salfit, high in the hills east of Nablus. Accompanied by a caravan of perhaps a dozen vehicles, he was hopping from one small village to another, announcing government grants and sharing his hopes for better times ahead. He invited me to join him for the return drive to Ramallah.
Raymond had "an unabashed skepticism about the potential of alternative energy sources like wind and solar." He saw "Spending shareholders' money to diversify into businesses that aren't yet profitableand that aim to solve a problem his scientists believe may not be significant"
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Yet the videos have things in them I cant explain. Too many folks wiping a tear from dry eyes. Laughing until on camera to a camera that was already on. A photo that sure looks like the wrong dead girl quite alive on Obamas knee
So, the simple question for Miliband is where will this back up come from, if not gas or other fossil fuels? Demand management, where heavy industrial users are paid to switch off during periods of high demand, may save a small amount of energy, but it is unlikely to be much. DECC statistics show that electricity supplied to all of industry in 2013 was 98TWh, which would equate to 11GW. Many of these are not heavy users, and others will not find it appropriate to join the scheme, so it is hard to see more than a couple of GW being shaved off at times of high demand. This would be a useful balancing tool for emergencies, but is no answer to the fundamental lack of reliable capacity.
Climate change also had a role in Spains drought and torrential New Zealand rains, though natural weather variation was a leading culprit in each case, and no strong connection was found in other prominent 2012 weather events such as the US drought.
Although "sovereignty" has many often contradictory meanings, for Americans, the idea is actually quite straightforward: Sovereignty rests in the Constitution's opening phrase "We the People," meaning our control over our own government.
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Yes, that is "the real question," and apparently, BP got the answer. Without subsidies, renewables cannot compete and so BP is bailing. Addressing wind energy's future, Amy Grace, a New York-based analyst at New Energy Finance, said: "There's limited visibility beyond 2014 about what the assets will be worth as a tax credit supporting turbines is set to expire at the end of this year."
It made perfect sense. The Czech industry was screwed after 42 years of communism. Cheap labor has been the main comparative advantage that the Czechs had and the wages are still substantially lower than those in Germany. But can this paradigm of a "cheaper sister" work permanently? The evidence that VW simply shouldn't treat koda in this way is accumulating at a quick rate.
We tend to be warmer than normal with less snow in the mountains (and much less snow in the lowlands). Less stormy. The good thing is that a typical strong El Nino year generally has more snow than the freaky year we just finished. But this is not good news for ski areas. On the positive side, El Nino years tend to bring more precipitation than normal to central and southern California. And guess what? The latest NOAA CFS model is showing exactly that for next October through December (see below).
71% Of The US Has Been Below Normal Temperature Over The Past Year
"You would think that someone who is so sensitive about people criticizing or defaming himself, that he would be very careful about defaming and insulting others. Sometimes it seems like Mann spends half his day suing people for defaming him, and then the other half of his day defaming others on Twitter.
All of the above addresses the two issues mentioned at the beginning. First, global climate models on average depict a relationship between the surface and upper air that is different than that observed, i.e. models depict an amplifying factor into the upper air that is greater than observed. Secondly, the average climate model depicts the warming rate since 1979 as much higher than observed with increasing discrepancies as the altitude increases (which is consistent with the first issue).
But the risks of the cynical game were becoming apparent. To the populist Tea Party voters whose anger had carried the GOP to those majorities, the promises made to them by these leaders that Republican majorities in the House and Senate could bring Barack Obama to his knees, repeal Obamacare and Dodd-Frank, and blow up government as we knew it were starting to appear hollow. Whether through weakness or perfidy, the Republican establishment, by stirring up the base and fomenting rage among its voters, did betray the trust given it by those voters.
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Government, however, can only play a supporting role. Private investments, private insurers and individual homeowners' need to take the lead in helping Florida ride out the coming storms.
Denmark ready to scrap offshore wind farms due to cost
To mention just one flaw, Section 111(d) of the Clean Air Act, the CPP's putative statutory basis, authorizes EPA to regulate "particular" "stationary sources," not the wider marketplace, networked industry, or sector of which a source happens to be a part. Yet the CPP will compel states to revise their laws and regulations on electric dispatch policy, fuel mix policy, and demand-management policy.
Significant centennial-length trends in the zonal SST and SLP gradients rivaling those estimated from observations and model simulations forced with increasing CO 2 appear to be inherent features of the internal climate dynamics simulated by all three models. Unforced variability and trends on the centennial time scale therefore need to be addressed in estimated uncertainties, beyond more traditional signal-to-noise estimates that do not account for natural variability on the centennial time scale.
the Obama budget. In his first months in office, Franklin Roosevelt concentrated
A thoughtful, quietly-spoken German was almost in tears.
Whilst there is a general hysteria of global warming, increasing temperature and rising sea level, new records from Antarctica indicate the opposite: a significant increase in the extent of sea ice over the last 30 years (in the order of 1 million square km) and a decrease in sea surface temperature south of Lat. 60S (in the order of 0.4 C).
Earlier this year, in South Sudan, I saw thousands of starving people suffering from war wounds, malaria, meningitis, hepatitis, vitamin deficiencies, cholera, and other diseases. Here in Uganda, I see hundreds trying to survive and recover from these diseases, heart attacks, diabetes, kidney failure, and cancer, receiving little or no medication and terribly inadequate care in hospitals and clinics that are falling apart and don't even have window screens or safe running water.
Workers Deserve the Right to Remain SilentBy Jack Mann
The new EPA regulations are set to go into effect on Jan. 2, 2011. Read more on the EPA Tailoring Rule Read more on global warming at Globalwarming.org.
Perhaps natural gas can displace petroleum-based fuels as the main transportation energy source. As Robert Bryce explains , new discoveries of vast resources, new technologies for tapping them, and the inherent physical superiority of natural gas presage a growing market share of transportation sector without subsidies becausewell, because its technologically superior, cheaper, and cleaner.