Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
Similarly, the report doesnt include data from other large emitters. Carbon price data from key competitor countries such as Chile and China are excluded. So is the carbon price from the carbon-backsliding Canadians.
If one conveniently ignores the extremely quiet 2013 and 2014 wildfire seasons and compares 1986 to 2012, wildfires in 2012 burned nearly four times as much acreage in 1986, but there were fewer wildfires in 2012 than in 1986.
"The directive applies only to patients from the US and Canada who come to Zurich for elective, non-essential health treatments," said Zurich University Hospital spokeswoman Petra Seeburger.
The White House will seek new public comment on the ?social cost of carbon? (SCC), a metric that helps regulators estimate the benefits of rules that cut greenhouse gas emissions.
The impact of the Iraq War had been such that foreign leaders in countries like
Tackling Poverty is Best Response to Climate Variance
Writing in the Guardian, Nick Clegg reveals 1,600 companies on the London Stock Exchange will publish greenhouse gas figures from April
The nice thing about businesses conspiracies is that you always know the motive- Money! You already know what the other guy wants to do before you begin negotiation. You also know that if it doesnt work out for either one of you, the relationship wont last. What you dont know is, whether the other party gives a crap whether you make a dime or survive as a company at all. Thats where we get into gray areas.
Rick Piltzs take on this is that the know-nothings are in the saddle. As Piltz further notes, The Senate can put a stop to this.
Excerpt: Carter: The accepted global average temperature statistics used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change show that no ground-based warming has occurred since 1998. Oddly, this eight-year-long temperature stasis has occurred despite an increase over the same period of 15 parts per million (or 4%) in atmospheric carbon dioxide. Second, lower-atmosphere satellite-based temperature measurements, if corrected for non-greenhouse influences such as El Nino events and large volcanic eruptions, show little, if any, global warming since 1979, a period over which atmospheric CO2 has increased by 55 ppm (17%).
Glaciers have been disappearing for 20,000 years when Chicago was buried under a mile of ice.
Obama: I Dont Have Much Patience for People Who Deny Climate Change | The Weekly Standard
As documented by previous temperature charts , the global atmospheric temperatures have been on a declining trend over the last 15 years. The adjacent chart depicts similar results with a change: instead of CO2 levels (ppm), this chart shows the recent human CO2 emissions in gigatons.
National defense to protect against the aggressive attacks of other countries that would threaten the citizens freedom and security;
Different estimates of recent trends in the average temperature of the earth vary widely in precision, depending on how and when they were made. Calculating the average surface temperature for a single year requires averaging local temperatures recorded at thousands of points all around the globe at different times of day and night throughout the year. Estimating trends in temperature in order to separate human-made from natural temperature effects requires precise record keeping over many decades. But precise land-based instrumental records are available only for a limited part of the earth's surface and only since the middle of the last century, a comparatively short time span from which to assess natural climate changes.6
These actions are intended to increase the cost of the hydrocarbon energy that powers our economy. Yet raising the cost of transportation fuels, electricity, lighting, heating and air conditioning will raise the price of food, materials and equipment. This will severely impact the bottom line for factories, utilities, offices, farms, shops, airlines, shippers, hospitals, schools, churches, charities and government offices. The poorest families may get rebates for their increased energy costs, but institutions will not. They will be forced to reduce wages, hours and benefits, hire fewer full-time employees, lay off people, outsource operations to countries where energy costs are lower or even close their doors.
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He also said there was no danger of sea level rises swallowing Pacific islands or coastlines and former US vice president Al Gore had exaggerated 100 per cent about sea level rises.
The IPCC report, which is published every six years, is used by governments worldwide to inform policy decisions that affect billions of people.
So neither the warm climate that sustained high Andean plant growth 5,000 years ago, nor the subsequent frigid climate that caused the glacierization, could possibly have been caused by human activity.
Obama can make plans for his inauguration, the weather gods appear to be in his corner.
A new paper just published and available for preview for the upcoming issue of Nature demonstrates that hyped claims that drought has increased aren??t founded in science. Plotting the Palmer Drought Severity Index globally over the past 60 years they show little change in drought.
At the outset, lets be quite clear: There is no consensus about dangerous anthropogenic global warming (DAGW)and there never was. There is not even a consensus on whether human activities, such as burning fossil fuels to produce useful energy, affect global climate significantly. So whats all this fuss about?
That's an increase of more than 300 percent in the number of global warming lobbyists since 2003, when Congress previously voted on climate change legislation, and means that Washington can now boast more than four climate lobbyists for every member of Congress."
A recent study published by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences investigated sources of fugitive methane emissions in the Four Corners region in the southwestern United States and found 250 point sources of methane emissions. Researchers found 4966 percent of the methane escaping into the atmosphere came from only 10 percent of the point-source emitters. This is good news, because it means methane emissions can be cut by more than half by simply fixing the top 10 percent of leaking equipment.
Alarmists made huge news out of last years warmth, and forgot to mention that five out of the last six years started out with below normal temperatures. (The 2013 numbers will probably rise a little before the month is over.)
The peace process falls under Abbas's jurisdiction, and there have been rumors of dissension, or at least coolness, between Abbas and Fayyad. Nor is Fayyad, a member of the "Third Way" splinter party, certain to win the support from Fatah that he will need to serve another term. What is important is that Abbas and Fayyad present Palestine as a viable state, able to navigate the rapids of independence and find a way to reunite Gaza with the West Bank.
"It is generally agreed that doubling CO2 alone will cause about 1C warming due to the fact that it acts as a blanket. Model projections of greater warming absolutely depend on positive feedbacks from water vapor and clouds that will add to the blanket reducing the net cooling of the climate system. ... This, however, is not the case for the actual climate system where the sensitivity is about 0.5C for a doubling of CO 2 ."
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The timing of these climatic changes can also be deduced from observations of abandoned Adelie penguin colonies along the coast of Victoria Land. This is because penguins depend on sea ice extent. Research into penguin rookeries suggest a ""penguin optimum'' associated with a warmer climate and less sea ice between 4000 and 3000 years ago. This "optimum'' ended abruptly 3000 years ago, as the inland lakes began to fill and the coastal lakes began to decrease in size. It seems the abandoned rookeries were reoccupied between 1200 and 600 years ago, also suggesting warming along the southern Victoria Land coast.
MP: There's just one small, inconvenient problem with making a connection between climate change and an increasing frequency of violent tornadoes the link doesn't actually exist. The chart above displays the annual number of "strong to violent tornadoes" (F3 to F5 on the Fujita Scale) in the US from 1954 to 2012 based on data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Climatic Data Center. Here are some weather-related facts:
The federal Energy Information Administration, the Department of Energy's independent research arm, recently provided a reality check on the costs of GHG reduction requirements. EIA estimated that reducing national GHG emissions 11 percent below business-as-usual by 2025 would cost a total of $620 billion nationwide during the next 20 years. California has a somewhat different GHG mix than the nation, but assuming similar unit costs for California, the state's pro-rated cost would be about $40 billion, or an average of $2 billion per year.
The Kyoto Protocol also spells out what happens to countries that breach their commitments. There is a 130 percent penalty in the second Kyoto period for each ton by which the targets are breached. That means that the second-period targets will be considerably larger than the first period's targets, which the EU countries are already finding impossible to meet.
To better understand the context of global warming since the industrial period started in 1850, it is also important to study pre-industrial temperature development when atmospheric CO 2 concentrations were low and fairly stable at about 280 ppm. Obviously any change in climate during those pre-industrial times would essentially have to be owing to natural factors. Geological studies from all over the world have documented the occurrence of significant climate fluctuations during the last 10,000 years. Warm phases and cold phases alternated about every thousand years, often in sync with changes in solar activity. For example 1000 years ago, during the Islamic Period in Portugal, average global temperatures were at or above the present-day level. This period is referred to as the Medieval Warm Period and coincides with a phase of high solar activity.
?To me, the most significant thing that the Climategate emails show is that the deck is stacked against the publication of research results that are critical of the established scientific consensus, and the skids are greased for papers that run in support?. Not a good situation for the advancement of science.?
CHRIS TURNEY: The Southern Hemisphere westerly winds encircle Antarctica, and over the last 20 or 30 years or so, theyve been pushing further south. Now so actually in a way its almost like Antarcticas withdrawing itself from the rest of the world
The adjacent chart from a new peer-reviewed study makes this very clear. Not only were the Medieval Warming temperatures some 2.9 degrees higher than the recent current modern warming, those unprecedented temperatures existed at atmospheric CO2 levels significantly below the claimed "tipping point" of 350ppm.
Overall, temperatures are increasing. This statement is unscientific because the starting and ending dates are not specified. Temperature has declined since the Holocene Climate Optimum 6000-10,000 years ago. The Old Kingdom, Minoan, Roman, and medieval warm periods were also warmer than the present.
Unfortunately for Markey, his point Athe critical importance of upgrading our natural gas infrastructurewould be undermined by his point Bblock new exports on the grounds that it would be a overall net plus to consumers and world stability.
But, again, who knows? The only thing that is certain, as Cohen et al. describe it, is that traditional radiative greenhouse gas theory and coupled climate models forced by increasing greenhouse gases alone cannot account for this seasonal asymmetry. And so we have yet another reason why so many scientists are so skeptical about the ability of even the most sophisticated of todays climate models to adequately portray reality.
It??s not human activity that??s to blame for the sea surface temperatures on the Great Barrier Reef but the ENSO, a very natural and well recognised climate phenomenon.
The highest recent rate of warming based on its linear trend occurred during the 158-month period that ended about 2004, but warming trends have dropped drastically since then. There was a similar drop in the 1940s, and as youll recall, global surface temperatures remained relatively flat from the mid-1940s to the mid-1970s. Also note that the late-1970s was the last time there had been a 158-month period without global warmingbefore recently.
Stats tampering puts NOAA in hot water
Children just aren't going to know what snow is. Dr David Viner, Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia, 20 March 2000
Now, opening up "previously inaccessible" areas to oil and gas development could also be a font of economic and national security benefits. One thing we know for sure about Arctic mineral resources--they aren't owned by Saudi Arabia, Iran, or Venezuela, and never will be controlled by OPEC.
A graph over 1000 rpm, with concentrations p y axelnbekrftar it is jmvikt (lines from ythav and deep sea verlappar, s only one visible):
Tree hugger explains. Global warming makes non-existent record cold Arctic air hold more moisture. The Arctic has been warming out of control for decades, so the record cold air you think you are feeling doesnt really exist, and even if it did you are an insignificant pipsqueak on the planet compared to Moscow or Tuvalu.
"It's a well-kept secret, but 95 percent of the climate models we are told prove the link between human CO2 emissions and catastrophic global warming have been found, after nearly two decades of temperature stasis, to be in error," he said, without providing evidence.
Nonetheless, there is no doubt that the proponents of "lawfare" have used this strategy successfully against Israel, and increasingly against the United States. By threatening U.S. officials with prosecution for alleged war crimes or human rights abuses, asserting jurisdiction over them when they travel abroad, for example, the globalistas seek to impose their version of international law over our own constitutional authorities. The American response should be that we recognize no higher earthly authority than the Constitution, which no valid treaty can supersede or diminish. And we certainly do not accept that "customary international law" which we do not voluntarily follow can bind us, especially today's variety, formed not by actual custom but by leftist academics who hardly have our best interests at heart.
I cam across this interesting piece, published by NOAA in 1999:
If the climate shifts hypothesisis correct, then the current flat trend in global surface temperatures may continue for another decade or two, with a resumption of warming at some point during mid-century. The amount of warming from greenhouse gases depends both on the amount of greenhouse gases that are emitted as well as the climate sensitivity to the greenhouse gases, both of which are associated with substantial uncertainties.
rsringar from uniting in Tibet and pines in Jmtland shows that climate ndrades properly on pure 400 and 600. The average temperature can have svngt as much as television degrees p ten years.
This working paper paper was revised and expanded from its original form on August 2, 2010. The original version of this working paper was published on November 1, 2008. Both versions are available as PDFs below.
An analysis of nuclear genes suggests that the polar bear is old enough to have survived through several periods that were warmer than today between the Middle Pleistocene and the early Holocene.
Even taking it as given that greenhouse-gas emissions are altering the climate in potentially dangerous ways, still, we must ask whether there are negative health and mortality effects from higher energy prices; whether restrictions on fossil-fuel energy would make us poorer; and whether a poorer-but-cooler world is better for humankind than a richer-but-warmer world. Likewise, could some geoengineering technique mitigate human-caused climate change without the need to give up the benefits of fossil-fuel energy; or buy us a few more decades to find new ways to produce abundant energy as or more cheaply, but without undesirable climate changes? Most climate scientists jump over these questions or assume the answer without any apparent awareness that they've failed to subject their preferences to scientific scrutiny.
Heinzow calculates that water equivalent to Lake Constance (13 cubic miles or 55 cubic kilometers) must be pumped 1,165 feet (350 meters) high, just to buffer the supply-demand discontinuity caused by the thousands of wind turbines that are already planned for the North and Baltic Seas. There are only two alternatives to this.
Back in summer 2002, when the original WWF report on polar bears was released, we performed an analysis between observed climate changes in the Arctic, and polar bear population trends, as given by the WWF.
Owens and Lyons were joined in the study by UCRs Steven M. Bates; Benjamin C. Gill at Virginia Tech. and a former Ph.D. student with Lyons; Hugh C. Jenkyns at the University of Oxford, the United Kingdom; Silke Severmann at Rutgers University, NJ, and a former postdoctoral researcher with Lyons; Marcel M. M. Kuypers at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Biology, Germany; and Richard G. Woodfine at British Petroleum, the United Kingdom.
Daniel Ben-Ami is the author of Ferraris for All. He has worked as a financial journalist and economics writer for more than 20 years.
You have already heard that there has been increased seismic activity at Yellowstone National Park over the last few days. Since December 26th, there have been several earthquakes a day, some jut over 3.0 magnitude, in the vicinity of the north side of Yellowstones lake. This is a seismically active region, but the level of earthquake activity being seen now is much greater than seen in perhaps decades (though the data are still not sufficiently analyzed to make positive comparisons yet).Volcano experts have absolutely no clue as to what this means. A major reason for virtually total uncertainty is that Yellowstone sits on top of a very large caldera of the type that is formed by a so-called super volcano and the last super volcano to erupt was a few years (like, 70 or so thousand years) before any seismic or other geological monitoring station were set up anywhere. Indeed, the first really serious data collection at Yellowstone began just over 30 years ago.
We used the HEM to analyze the economic effects of instituting the BoxerSanders proposal. HEM is appropriate for this analysis, as similar models have been used in the past to understand the economic effects of other carbon tax proposals. In particular, we conducted simulations running a carbon fee that started in 2014 at $20 (in 2013 dollars) and increased by 5.6 percent per year and compared this against a baseline model without any carbon tax. We chose a revenue-neutral carbon tax where 100 percent of the carbon tax revenues are returned directly to taxpayers. We ran the HEM for 12 cycles to get consistent feedback into the Macroeconomic Activity Module, which provided us with the figures presented in this study.
Brewer's remarks are an expansion of comments she made last week during a televised debate between the four Republican gubernatorial candidates....
The cable describes a visit made by the FSHP to the Hermanos Ameijeiras hospital in October 2007. Built in 1982, the newly renovated hospital was used in Michael Moore's film as evidence of the high-quality of healthcare available to all Cubans.
In other words, each proxy may have its distinct frequency response function, which could confuse the interpretation of climate variability. Finally, another concern is the lack of understanding of the air-sea relationship at the multidecadal timescale, even in the reasonably well observed region of the North Atlantic (Hkkinen 2000, Seager et al. 2000, Marshall et al. 2001, Slonosky & Yiou 2001, von Storch et al. 2001).
By Larry Kummer, Editor of the Fabius Maximus website, from which this is reposted, WUWT, Aug 8, 2015
The conclusion is inescapable: The U.S. temperature record is unreliable. The errors in the record exceed by a wide margin the purported rise in temperature of 0.7 C (about 1.2 F) during the twentieth century. Consequently, this record should not be cited as evidence of any trend in temperature that may have occurred across the U.S. during the past century. Since the U.S. record is thought to be the best in the world, it follows that the global database is likely similarly compromised and unreliable.
Now, for the global mean temperature, there exist some regulating mechanisms that prevent the Earth from deviating by more than 10 ??C or so from some normal value - like 15 ??C. It's plausible that the global mean temperature hasn't left the 5-25 ??C interval for billions of years. Moreover, most of the changes of the temperature may be "explained" or "attributed" to some causes.
Evidence points to growing frequency and intensity of extreme weather worldwide due to global warming, but an effort to detect changes in the intensity of tornadoes has yet to be made.
Environmental groups will assuredly become much more influential within the new administration, but it is an open question how much political capital President Obama will be willing to spend on their behalf. Easy issues like removing some of the restrictions placed around the listing of the Polar Bear under the Endangered Species Act will please environmentalists while outraging industry but not the public. Incremental moves aimed at making coal use more expensive will also be quite easy to achieve. Large amounts of money will be directed at energy and vehicle technology development. Influential leaders within the environmental movement will be given positions of power within the EPA, Interior and Energy departments. In short, establishment environmentalism will suffuse the new administration, even if major environmental initiatives are not pushed as quickly as some would like.
6 EPA, New Source Review: Report to the President, pp. 3-4.
I posted earlier todayon areport regardingthe Earths heat balance; see
GREENIE WATCH However, as we all know it is in the nature of orthodoxy to ignore `minor issues'. However, this time seems an even bigger dog has come to bite! So far it has not been seen with the scientific AGW establishment that one single paper comes along to destroy more or less the whole basis of many careers (yet) but I'd say this new Nature paper looks to be getting very close to such an occasion. Expect a firestorm of rebuttal, dissembling, and (dare I use the term?) denial.
in their lifetimes. Or as Stuart Taylor, another moderate critic of the Obama
Ive told the Government and the Opposition that I see it as virtually impossible to get this legislation through by the end of June, he said. I think its better to come back after the winter break and well have a better idea then whats happening in the US .
Tuesdays focus is on writing big cheques for centralised power-generation including carbon capture and storage (CCS) and nuclear, which may be necessary in the short-term, but there was scant detail on how to exploit advances in grid connectivity, flexibility and energy efficiency.
To whom it concern: My name is Aurora G. Villanueva, a member of the Brampton Filipino Seniors Club. I wanted to clarify my position in relation to the statement made by Ms Dhalla during the inquiry. The letter she presented in the inquiry that was signed by me, but not written by me.. It was prepared by the office of Ms Dhalla.