Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
In the 1970s, EPA Administrator Russell Train tried this dodge, claiming that EPA did not have to set NAAQS for lead emissions, because he had no plan to produce a criteria document for lead. The Second Circuit Court of Appeals rejected Trains interpretation,finding that it would make EPAs mandatory duties under the NAAQS program discretionary at the will of the Administrator.In other words, it wouldgut the NAAQS program.
Global warming has been described as the greatest threat facing mankind, but the policies designed to address global warming actually pose a much greater threat. The international and domestic policies to ration carbon-based energy would doand are doing little to slow carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, but would have enormous costs. These costs would fall most heavily on poor people, not only in the United States, but also in the world's poorest nations. The correct approach is not energy rationing, but rather long-term technological transformation and building resiliency in developing societies by increasing their wealth.
More pertinently,observes the Institute for Energy Research ,per unit of energy produced, subsidies for renewable energy vastly exceed those for fossil fuels. In the electric sector, for example,???solar is being subsidized by over 1200 times more than coal and oil and natural gas electricity production, and wind is being subsidized over 80 times more than the more conventional fossil fuels on a unit of production basis.??
Why is Water Vapour, the Most Important Greenhouse Gas, Ignored?
Interestingly, the final draft of AR5 WG1 dropped the statement in the second draft that TCR had a most likely value near 1.8C, in line with CMIP5 models, and marginally reduced the likely range from 1.22.6C to 1.02.5C, at the same time as making the above claim.
In a century, it is possible (even likely) that some of the very precepts of physics could change, yielding who knows what outcomes. Circa 1910 we saw the dawn of the modern physics of relativity, quantum and nuclear energy that defined a century's modern physical science. The notion that we're at the end of new science has been laid to rest by the utter failure of science to explain so much that is fundamental about the universe we inhabit. For heaven's sake, we not only cannot yet explain something as ubiquitous as gravity; we don't even know what the basic constituents of matter are, nor how much and what kind of fundamental energies exist. Scientists have conjured up the undefined and totally opaque ideas of both "dark matter" and "dark energy" to explain the inconvenient energized expansion of the universe.
"The story was headlined, "Sea levels rising twice as fast as predicted.' The first sentence did not agree with the headline: "Sea levels are predicted to rise twice as fast as was forecast by the United Nations only two years ago ' That is, the soothsayers have read their chicken entrails again and decided that their previous divinations were not dire enough. This has nothing to do with actual sea level rise. For the past several years, sea level rise has been below the average rate of the twentieth century, which in total was about seven inches."
Read the full article at New York Post.
Reality Check: Winter Of 2009/10 Coldest Winter For Over 30 Years
"Four. . . three . . . two . . . one. We have ignition . . . and lift-off."
But, no, thats not accepted since, you know, house insulation works by conduction, not by radiation. Sigh.
The Obama administration is willing to take this risk. Is North Dakota's Senate delegation willing to join him?
Its only hopeful message is that it's not too late to implement Kyoto-style climate policies!
On February 20, Secretary of State John Kerry gave his first speech, as Secretary, at the University of Virginia where he offered a glimpse of how he sees tackling climate change as part of his jobas is "reducing nuclear threat," "fighting corruption in Nigeria," and breaking "the cycle of poverty, poor nutrition and hunger."
Lower and Middle Tropospheric temperatures show slow warming overlaid with the El Nio/La Nia Southern Oscillation (ENSO) cycle, including four comparatively large El Nio events. Tropospheric temperatures appear to have flattened since the large El Nio in 1998 and offer no indication that Earth is experiencing rapid or extreme warming.
The Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research, which produced one of the models used in the Assessment, acknowledged at the time it was selected that its model's data were not useful for the purpose the administration is using it. Specifically, Hadley stated this on its website, "In areas where coasts and mountains have significant effect on weather , scenarios based on global models will fail to capture the regional detail needed for vulnerability assessments at a national level." Regardless, this model is used to project specific, but scientifically unsupportable, U.S. climate impacts, which are incorporated in both reports.
James notes an item questioning how this could happen;
Related developments in the colonies... from Ottawa gas bar to Pirate King . What a country!
The single most dominant theme in Sino-U.S. relations of the past year or more has been the emergence of a more "assertive China." This article assesses whether, to what extent, and in what manner Beijing is becoming more assertive in several major areas of relevance to the United States. These are: first, in defining and promoting the concept of "core interests"; second, with regard to U.S. political and military behavior along China's maritime periphery; third, concerning a variety of economic, trade, and finance issues, from so-called indigenous innovation to global standards regarding reserve currencies; and fourth, with regard to several issues related to international security, from counter-proliferation to climate change.
If you've been living without an internet connection, here's a quick overview of l'affaire Climategate. On November 17, someone posted to the internet a vast archive of materials that had been hacked or leaked from the CRU, including numerous emails, documents, computer code, and data. While all of the information has not been verified as 100% correct, none of the people cited have denied that the documents are legitimate, and some outside entities engaged in the e-mail exchanges have confirmed that they are genuine.
In short, Professor Davis's data do not buttress the case for alarm but rather call it into question.
Animation 3 is an update of the cross sections of temperature anomalies at depth along the equator.
John Christy emphasized that all of the 100+ climate models have over-predicted warming in the tropical troposphere, by at least a factor of 2, and this was supposed to be the most obvious manifestation of global warming as predicted by climate models.
The videos centre around interviews between David Whitehouse, and Jennifer Francis and Roger Pielke Jr.
In fact, much of the SUVs' recent popularity stems from CAFE itself. CAFE's restrictions took their greatest toll on large cars and station wagons. As economist Paul Godek pointed out in a study published last fall, light trucks were the only real alternative for consumers concerned about safety and seating capacity. In effect, he concludes, most of the weight forced off the passenger car fleet by CAFE has reappeared in the light truck fleet.
Almost seven years have passed since Florida was hit by a hurricane, the longest such period on record. Florida averages almost one hurricane per year. During the 1870s, Florida was hit by 12 hurricanes.
Hans von Storch, Armineh Barkhordarian, Klaus Hasselmann and Eduardo Zorita (2013) Can climate models explain the recent stagnation in global warming? Academia
18 April 2015 ??? Eleven inches (25 cm) of snow had fallen on mid-mountain by 9 a.m., said Aspen Skiing Co. spokesman Jeff Hanle. The snow continued for at least 90 minutes after that.
Sizewell B has a capacity of 1.2GW, and the new Hinkley Point C (still awaiting for EU authorisation for subsidies) will have 3.2GW.
Bill O'Reilly's nightly show on the Fox News Channel is viewed by at least 3.5 million people every night. So it was a treat to see Heartland Senior Fellow Horace Cooper as the program's first guest Wednesday night! O'Reilly asked Cooper to talk about violence in America's urban black communities, and why the policies of the left have done nothing to stop it. WATCH IT HERE
CO2 warming I am convinced that theoretically rising CO2 should lead to higher temperatures, but I have yet to see ANY evidence proving this theoretical connection (but see below).
Although the film conveniently ignores the fact that Cameron pays to off-set his personal carbon emissions, its aggressive tone will concern many of Hollywood's liberal elite, who preach green living while driving Porsches and clocking up the air miles in first class. In its first two days, the attack ad clocked-up 120,000 views on YouTube.
As Arrhenius predicted, both carbon dioxide levels and temperatures increased from 19001999. However, carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has increased much more quickly than he expected, but the Earth hasn't warmed as much as he thought it would. (Graphs by Robert Simmon, based on data from NOAA and the Goddard Institute for Space Studies)
It seems you are unaware that the IR absorbtion of CO2 in the atmosphere is constrained to only two narrow bands with almost all being in the 15 micron band. These bands are so near to saturation that they only increase their absorbtion by band broadening.
The Younger Dryas Impact proponents would be well-served by promoting an exploration of the SCB as a starting point while looking for other anomalies further north in the deeper Chippewa Basin and in other Great Lakes. If a smoking gun does exist for their theory, it probably lies under these waters.
President Barack Obama has announced his intention to apply California's fuel efficiency regulation to all 50 states. You might think that the Constitution reserves such lawmaking to Congress. After all, there is a robust interstate trade in automobiles and in 2007 Congress revised the Department of Transportation's Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards to require cars and trucks sold in America to become 40 percent more fuel efficient by 2020.
Guess it makes sense to avoid the penalties and the bad publicitykinda like the government doctoring the economic reports and the news to get a better spin. Right?
Is it possible penalizing hospitals for return admissions would just encourage them to dump the difficult cases that are bound to bounce back?
There are many casualties in this sad story of greed and hubris. The big victim is the scientific method. This was pointed out in great detail by John P Costella of the Virginia-based Science and Public Policy Institute. Science is based on three fundamental pillars. The first is fallibility. The fact that you can be wrong, and if so proven by experimental input, any hypothesis can beindeed, must becorrected.
Add to all of this a 40-year old statute that makes it virtually impossible for American companies to export crude oil, and it will be a long while before America becomes what it might become the world's largest exporter of LNG, and a major exporter of crude oil. Good news for America's petrochemical industry, for Americans who use gas-fired electricity and heat their homes with natural gas, and for Vladimir Putin.
This means, of course, that instead of the increase of 16.8 W/m2 in downwelling radiation that we calculated above, we need 25% more downwelling radiation to account for the parasitic losses from the surface. (As I said, the true percentage of parasitic losses would be more than that, likely much more, but well use a quarter for purposes of conservative estimation.)
All the while, the Obama administration is crippling Americas future economic growth with these regulations while our economic competitors forge ahead at making energy prices predictable, cheap and attractive for doing business.
Another deception is that Cook just made up the Lindzen graph. It does not represent any prediction ever made by Lindzen. Cook made the bogus graph by simply removing CO2 from Hansens temperature model. Naturally this produced a flat line since Hansens failed model is programmed to only respond to CO2.
projected regional climate change based on models that do not even describe and
Mastering the Problem of Environmental Quality: an interview with Dr. S. Fred Singer
If you graph the intensity or number of hurricanes; the temperature fluctuations; the total number of extreme temperature events; or many other things that depend on non-uniformity and non-constancy of the quantities describing the atmosphere, you will see that theres been no significant global trend in either of them during the last 100 years or so.
Among the findings: In a large cohort of patients hospitalized with CAD, almost half have admission LDL levels <100 mg/dL. More than half the patients have admission HDL levels <40 mg/dL, whereas <10% have HDL=60 mg/dL."
At that rate, it would take 667 years and cost $100 trillion to hypothetically avert just 1 degree Centigrade of global warming.
First they told us that Arctic ice volume had collapsed. Then they told us that the remaining multi-year ice had cracked and failed . Then they told us that an unprecedented hole had opened up in the Arctic ice, and that it would all be gone this summer. Then they told us that Arctic ice was in freefall .
Date: Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 8:32 PM
In a speech at a Democratic National Committee fundraiser President Bill Clinton explained the continuing conflict between U.S. and Canadian commercial fisherman. He said, "I can tell you, one of my big problems with our best partner in the world, Canada, is that our salmon fisherman are fighting all the time . . . You know why? Because all the salmon are moving north, so there are more in Alaska and fewer in Canada, because of climate change." Apparently the White House got this idea from a paper written by David Welch of the Pacific Biological Station. But Welch claims the paper said no such thing. "It's not global warming that's causing these fish to be intercepted. It's fisherman who catch a whole bunch of Canadian fish at the same time they catch U.S. fish" (Anchorage Daily News, June 19, 1998).
Number of the Week: 926,900 tonnes. A report from China asserts the State Oceanic Administration said China has built a total of 112 seawater desalination plants by the end of 2014, producing 926,900 tonnes of fresh water per day. In north China, desalted water is mainly used for water-intensive industries including electricity and steel in Tianjin, Hebei and Shandong, while in south China, desalted water is mainly for civilian needs covering the provinces of Zhejiang, Fujian and Hainan.
The Golden Age myth historically arose when more complex urban civilizations developed that increased the distance between people and nature. The Golden Age is that earlier existence before cities, agriculture, and technology, a time idealized as simpler and more fulfilling, closer to a maternal nature that is "untouched by the hoe and unwounded by the plow," as the Roman poet Ovid put ita time when nature "herself gave all things," wrote Ovid. In the Golden Age, there was no crime or sickness, no war or competition for wealth, no oppressive social or political institutions.
Two long comments that deserve greater visibility, the blog Calabria Solar Thermodynamics
SteveFs essay takes no account of the most substantial medium-term natural cycle that seems to influence global temperatures: the Pacific Decadal Oscillation. The cycles of that great Oscillation tend to exercise a warming influence for about 30 years followed by a cooling influence for about 30 years. This cyclical influence is visible throughout the HadCRUt4 global temperature record since 1850.
Another Climate Alarmist Scientist Prediction Proven Wrong - Instead of Crop Failures, They Thrive With More CO2 & Warming
This paper is mostly about the trends if you put in the Roman (300 AD) and Medieval (1100 AD). Naturally the trend is up since the Little Ice Age that ended in the late 18th century. Remember why Valley Forge was so damn cold.
At the same time, I want to say a big thank you to Ingemar, Jonny and Peter of you keeps the flag up there!
The original standards forced students to only consider "rises" in temperature. The amended standards substitute "changes" and permits students to consider "natural forces" as well as human activity when they study the climate.
Initially funded with grants totaling $225 million from ExxonMobil, General Electric, Schlumberger and E.ON, the energy project will be completely administered by Stanford University. The selection of Franklin M. Orr Jr., dean of Stanford?s School of Earth Sciences, to head the new project guarantees that it will be independent.
much of the fact that, because it can spread by skin contact, condoms
The desert will be scarred well beyond a human life span, and no amount of mitigation will repair it, according to scores of federal and state environmental reviews.
Finally, there's the question of whether CFLs really do reduce the use of electricity. Back in 1987, the small town of Traer, Iowa, handed out 18,000 fluorescents to its residents, in a free giveaway aimed at cutting power consumption. How did that work out?
Claims that sea level rise is accelerating are shown to be misleading.
"The full IPCC report, most of which is written by scientists about specific scientific topics in their areas of expertise, is an admirable description of research activities in climate science. It is not, however, directed at policy. The SPM is, of course, but it is also a very different document. It represents a consensus of government representatives, rather than of scientists. As a consequence, the SPM has a strong tendency to disguise uncertainty, and conjures up some scary scenarios for which there is no evidence.
Carbon math makes clear that without major effort and a good bit of luck, we are unlikely to control the growth of emissions enough to meet the standards that many climate scientists suggest are necessary. It is time to end the delusions and start thinking realistically about what can and will be done.
NSIDC needed something negative to say about Arctic ice, and if they waited another week they couldnt have said it. Those areas of low concentration ice are now high concentration ice.
On October 27, the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal issued a precedent-setting cease and desist order which forbids Jessica Beaumont from posting certain Bible verses on the Internet. If this 21-year old woman posts the wrong Bible quotation online - even if it is on an American website - she could face up to 5 years in prison.
Who denies that CO2 lags temperature in the ice core data by as much as 800 years and hence isa product of climate change not a cause?
4) Boris Johnson: Why Did Met Office Get It Wrong Yet Again?
Julian Simon notes that "recent scientific and technical advances especially seed banks and genetic engineering have diminished the importance of maintaining species in their natural habitat." (Scarcity, p.43)
/s/ Dr. Donald M. Curry JSC, Mgr. Shuttle Leading Edge, Thermal Protection Sys., Engr. Dir., 44 years
UPDATE: Lucia and JunkPschology in comments confirm that these six papers listed would not have made Cooks list. So in only half an hour of random analysis I can easily turn up major papers by skeptics that fall outside Cooks primitive keyword hunt. How many others miss too?
Many people think CEI was founded on the principles of classical liberalism. But Fred Smith started CEI in 1984, about the same time the Clintons were putting their political careers into high gear. And I like to think that CEI is really founded on the Clinton Principles:
The researchers conclude that the recent estimates of 40 p.p.m.v. CO 2 per degree Celsius can be excluded with 95% confidence, suggesting significantly less amplification of current warming.
The academic freedom issue is murkier. Academic freedom, as per the Wikipedia:
The reports forecast of a drier future could come to pass, but the track record of Australian climate scientists for predicting rainfall even one season ahead is dismal. The Bureau incorrectly forecast below average rainfall for spring this year for the upper Murray catchments just before the region was flooded. Last year the forecast for a hot and dry summer resulted in drought breaking rains across the upper Murray Darling Basin.
If we continue to follow Sterns advice, the principal losers, apart from British taxpayers and businesses, would be developing countries who cannot raise living standards without massively increasing their use of fossil fuels and will therefore be responsible for most of the growth of carbon emissions, Lilley argues.
It is impossible from Solomon et al.'s analysis to know what went on prior to 1980, so, for lack of any other guidance, I'll assume that no changes took place (or, that the net change was zero) from 1950 to 1980. I'll then back the 15% warming influence from stratospheric water vapor changes since 1980 out of the "corrected" data in Figure 2. The warming I am left with is shown in Figure 3.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) Americans strongly oppose U.S. intervention in Syrias civil war and believe Washington should stay out of the conflict even if reports that Syrias government used deadly chemicals to attack civilians are confirmed, a Reuters/Ipsos poll says.
Nature blogs just told us about an APS conference that took place in Denver, Colorado on Saturday (well, it continues through Tuesday):
Excerpt from Shaviv: ???We find that at least 66% of the variance in the paleotemperature trend could be attributed to CRF variations likely due to solar system passages through the spiral arms of the galaxy.??
"Over Pakistan, the weather pattern is just staying with the monsoon, and the monsoon is bringing drenching rains," weatherzone.com.au meteorologist Josh Fisher said.
Sorry, Steve Running, Wildfires Are Decreasing with Global Warming
* The bucket method has been used since earliest times. The samples come from near the surface (about 1 meter), and temperatures are recorded manually. They should show a pronounced max after noon due to direct solar heating.
2007 / Dec / 07 at 08:47:41
The bill, sponsored by Oklahoma Republican Tom Coburn, would have eliminated ethanol blender subsidies while striking the import tariff on foreign ethanol (typically cheaper Brazilian ethanol derived from sugarcane). It failed 59-40, falling 20 votes short of cloture, but a closer look reveals that the defeat had as much to do with inside-the-beltway maneuvering as it did with fundamental untouchability of ethanol subsidies.
Many thanks for your paper and congratulations for reviving the global warming.
Ayers is a Ed professor at the U of Illinois, has a friend in the White House, and is famous for saying guilty as hell free as a bird, America is a great country.
WUWT; After I showed the original press release contained not one mention of global warming or climate change, one of our readers decided to ask the researcher about this statement attributed to to Jessica Morgan in that Business Insider story...
And that is the whole issue. What price are we supposed to pay to revolutionize the way the industrial world makes energy and what temperature benefit will result? This climate commissioner of Australia has no answer as to what the temperature drop would be. I strongly suspect he has no idea what the cost will be to achieve the temperature drop either. It took 200 years to achieve the amount of energy production we have in the world today. You can bet it will take trillions of dollars to re-engineer it into something else. Even if such a thing were possible there is no guarantee it would have any significant effect on earth's average temperature. According to the Australian climate commissioner the end result, whatever that might be, would take up to one thousand years to take effect.