Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
Once again, Democrats refused to permit the Republicans' intended witness to testify. They knew Lord Christopher Monckton, former science advisor to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, would rubbish Gore's Doomsday scenarios. So Gore was allowed to mislead Congress and promote his unfounded assertion that humanity faces "an irreparably damaged planet," if we don't immediately slash fossil fuel use. He didn't face a single tough question over any of his false or misleading claims.
So if their explanation is right, the bump near \(2\TeV\) will be growing it may already be growing now: the first Run II results will be announced on EPS-HEP in Vienna, a meeting that starts tomorrow (follow the conference website )! Only about 1 inverse femtobarn of \(13\TeV\) data has been accumulated in 2015 so far much less than 20-30/fb at \(8\TeV\) in 2012. And if the authors of the paper discussed here are right, one more thing is true. The decay channel \(Z\gamma\) of the new particle will soon be detected as well and it will be a smoking gun for low-scale string theory!
That Real Climate (RC)should feelspecial solicitude for the Hockey Stick is no accident, comrade. Two of the five principals at RC ??? Michael Mann and Raymond Bradley ??? were among the three researchers (Mann, Bradley, andMalcolm Hughes) who authored the Hockey Stick.
I cant see anything objectionable in this sentence. I did indeed do the stated calculation (see here .) The calculation involving the Hantemirov data was not the same calculation as the emulation of CRUs regional chronology that Id calculated about 10 days earlier (see here ) on May 6, 2012. Although Schmidt whinged about the May 6 regional calculation, nowhere is it mentioned in my actual post. Indeed, I havent yet commented on the handling of the regional chronology in Briffa et al 2006, though this is an interesting topic that I intend to cover and will discuss briefly in todays post.
the world and a number of op-ed pieces appeared. Some were awful. Most have had
that impacts produces risk that needs careful and urgent attention.
???The global temperature savings of the Kerry-Lieberman bill is astoundingly small0.043C (0.077F) by 2050 and 0.111C (0.200F) by 2100. In other words, by centurys end, reducing U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by 83% will only result in global temperatures being one-fifth of one degree Fahrenheit less than they would otherwise be. That is a scientifically meaningless reduction.??
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Oracle is setting up the bunting for its JavaOne 2012 conference in San Francisco, just as researchers from the Polish insecurity outfit Security Explorations found another critical hole in the companys Java software.
THE story of Americas shale-gas revolution offers hope in hard times. The ground was laid in the late 1990s, when a now-fabled Texan oilman, George Mitchell, developed an affordable way to extract natural gas locked up in shale rock and other geological formations. It involves blasting them with water, sand and chemicalsa technique known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. Americas shale-gas industry has since drilled 20,000 wells, created hundreds of thousands of jobs, directly and indirectly, and provided lots of cheap gas. This is a huge advantage to American industry and a relief to those who fret about American energy security.
Australias antarctic runway melting | Southern Weekly
If an era as warm or warmer than today did indeed exist 500 to 1,000 years ago, before man had invented the CO2-emitting internal combustion engine, then it weakens their claim that any warming occurring now is due to human activity. The reality of such a period is a strong sign that climate change is both natural and cyclical, not moved by mans modern habits.
"Policy makers need to catch up with the industry," Harold York, an analyst of the refining sector at Woods Mackenzie, said. He projects that easing the crude oil restrictions "would lead to $70 billion in investment spending in the U.S. oil sector and further economic stimulus."
I think the urban-related warming should be smaller than this, but I can?t
By Benjamin Zycher, AEI, Aug 5, 2015
India and China talk the Al Gore talk of climate Armageddon and the necessity for urgent action -- yet their emissions keep going up and they refuse to adopt emission caps or carbon taxes. The world's two most populous countries with the biggest "emerging" economies act on the premise that global warming policies are more dangerous than global warming itself. It's time for their words to match their deeds, as I explain today on MasterResource.Org.
The Journal is the official, peer-reviewed publication of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS), a national organization representing physicians in all specialties, founded in 1943 to preserve private medicine and the patient-physician relationship.
have a national health insurance program. We don't have toxic waste clogging the
Freeman Dyson has followed the same path as myself, going from true believer in 1979 to skeptic in 2015.
The key part of the equation is the number right before x. Thats whats called the slope of the function. The slope is 0.0048 C per year. This works out to about half-a-degree (0.5 C) Celsius per century . For reference purposes , the IPCC forecasted 1.8 to 4.0 C per century over the next 100 years, depending on their various socioeconomic scenarios. Heres the real kicker... The IPCC forecasted 0.6 C of warming over the next century in a scenario in which CO2 remains at the same level as it was in 2000. This is reminiscent of Hansons failed 1988 model . The IPCC forecast more warming in a steady-state CO2 world than has actually occurred since 1997.
NATO military planners and civilian policymakers continue to think in terms of nation-states and regional "areas of operation," whereas, as the navy community knows full well, maritime threats are more often than not nonstate and transregional in nature. But terrorist networks are genuinely transnational: the Sri Lankan LTTE not only owned and operated a fleet of ten ocean-going freighters flying Panamian, Honduran, and Liberian flags, it also hijacked commercial vessels carrying weapons to reroute them to the Tamil Tigers. In 1994, the LTTE shipped 50 metric tons of TNT on board one of its own freighters operated by a front company from a Ukrainian Black Sea port via the Turkish Straits to Sri Lanka.
Tissue and Lewis continue saying that "glacial plants were severely carbon limited over a very long time period, until atmospheric CO2 began rising during the glacial-interglacial transition." In fact, they indicate that "controlled environment studies with modern plants grown in glacial CO2" have shown "significant carbon limitations on plant physiology even when other resources were generally not limiting ," citing Dippery et al. (1995) and Tissue et al. (1995). So in spite of anything one could have done to enhance their productivity (other than supply them with more CO2), glacial-age plants simply could not produce the bounty that today's plants do. In fact, they were fortunate to merely survive.
In a book I recommend to everyone, "Climate for the Layman" by Anthony Bright-Paul, he draws on the best well-known science about the Earth noting that "Since there is no such thing as a temperature of the whole Earth all talk of global warming is simply illogical, ill thought out, and needs to be discarded for the sake of clarity. The globe is warming and cooling in different locations concurrently every minute of the day and night."
His playing days may be over but Pfannenstiel's passion for environmental issues is now taking his career into even more unpredictable directions.
It sure doesnt look like the dominance of La Nia events during the hiatus period has caused any ocean heat uptake in the Pacific over the past 11 years. Subsurface ocean warming occurred only in the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans. Now, consider that manmade greenhouse gases including carbon dioxide are said to be well mixed, meaning they are pretty well evenly distributed around the globe. Its difficult to imagine how a well-mixed greenhouse gas like manmade carbon dioxide caused the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans to warm to depths of 2000 meters, while having no impact on the North Atlantic or the largest ocean basin on this planet, the Pacific.
Making the ignorance and arrogance of the Administration all the more absurd are the repeated claims that the plan will save the consumers money as if major urban black-outs can be labeled as money saving opportunities. See links under The Administrations New Plan and The Administrations New Plan Independent Analysis.
on Friday, March 30th, 2012 at 6:20 am and is filed under Uncategorized.
To distract the industry with more CAFE would hamper that effort, further reduce occupant protection and accomplish nothing of substance.
But that isnt what the IPCC is saying. A single sentence on page 4 of the Summary for Policymakers puts the IPCCs conclusions in a different perspective:
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Australian target set at 26% reduction by 2030 billions spent to reduce global CO2 emissions by 0.01%
Because of this failure and the fact that the IPCC Mean Annual Global Temperature anomaly has not changed for the past 17 years, they have decided to treat it on a decadal basis instead, as follows:
There has been little or no sea level rise in Vancouver over the last century.
Bizarre Huffington Post Claim: We all need to come out on Climate Change
STILL A LOT OF UNKNOWNS CONCERNING DECADAL CLIMATE VARIABILITY
Since when was the ability to manage the agenda of the G-20 (go ahead, try and name its members) a litmus test of strength? Yet here we see another almost incredible disconnect between reality and Obama-world. Russia, which is indeed setting the agenda in the Middle East and in Eastern Europe, is doing so without breaking a sweat because Obama has chosen not to push back. Why not? Because apparently pushing back requires war with Russia, rather than the myriad other options available to America's chief executive, including arming Ukrainian soldiers or inflicting more financial pain on Moscow. Straw men play an enormous role in the president's universe.
Global Warming Causes Extreme Legislative Fury
?If we take all the science that we know relating to how the Sun emits heat and light and how that heat and light powers our climate system, and we look at the climate system globally, the difference that it makes even going back into Maunder Minimum conditions is very small.
Of course, realizing these benefits requires producing more, ending the export ban, and building more pipelines, natural gas liquefaction plants, and shipping facilities. That can and should be expedited.
Figure 6. The remarkable non-linearity of global temperature change since 1890, showing the two periods of global warming that coincided remarkably with the two positive phases of the naturally-occurring Pacific Decadal Oscillation over the period.
It is safe to say that the overall impact of such polls has been minimal, compared to the political consequences of UN-IPCC (Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change) reports that led to (mostly failed) attempts at international action, like the Kyoto Protocol (1997-2012). One should mention here the Oregon Petition against Kyoto, signed by some 31,000 (mostly US) scientists and engineersnearly 10,000 with advanced degrees. More important perhaps, in July 1997 the US Senate passed the Byrd-Hagel Resolution against a Kyoto-like treaty by unanimous votewhich probably dissuaded the Clinton-Gore White House from ever submitting Kyoto for Senate ratification.
Some numbers are needed now: By definition 10,000 ppm is 1%, therefore 100 % equals 1million parts per million( 110+6) . Another way to put it is if there are 1 million soldiers in the army and only one has a gun ,he better have a lot of bullets if he is going to defend the country. The atmosphere is supposed to contain 400 ppm (round Number) therefore a concentration of 100% CO2 is 2500 time that of what is in the atmosphere. If the effect exists it should be much easier to measure and demonstrate that back radiation Is causing a heating effect on the earth.
These results are extraordinarily significant because they show that the global net effect of climatic warming on the productivity of terrestrial vegetation need not be positive as was documented for the 1980s and 1990s, said Diane Wickland, of NASA Headquarters and manager of NASAs Terrestrial Ecology research program.
As Newt Gingrich and others have pointed out, Republican candidates need to find policy approaches that embrace environmental values but that secure those values with policy approaches compatible with fiscal responsibility, limited government, free markets, and personal responsibility. Two such policy options are a greenhouse gas mitigation agenda incorporating revenue-neutral, carbon-centered tax reform, and a deregulatory adaptation agenda of eliminating the insurance subsidies that have, and will continue to encourage people to live in areas that are most susceptible to small changes in the climate.
Auto makers are upset about this development because now they must mount a lobbying effort against higher CAFE standards when they are making efforts to appear green (Wall Street Journal, July 16, 1999).
Welcome to 2008: Across the country, Democrats are talking again about health care. From New Jersey to Minnesota to Colorado, they are proposing an aggressive agenda that promises to insure more Americans by employing mandates and price controls.
Counter to the alarmist claims that AGW is causing the California drought, Obama's National Climate Assessment Report shows precipitation has increased throughout over 90% of California relative to the 1901-1960 mean. In addition, less than 5% of the contiguous US shows and increase in drought and most regions show either an increase in precipitation or no change compared to the 1901-1960 mean.
Many thanks to Luke Walker for alerting me to the story of Goyders Line.
White House uses Twitter to bully critics:
The finding could help explain the slowdown in temperature rises this century that climate sceptics have seized on as evidence climate change has stopped, even though 14 of the 15 hottest years on record have happened since 2000.
But a strange thing happened in 2006 the lake level stopped declining and instead started increasing rapidly. As you can see in the table below from lakepowell.water-data.com, since 2005 the lake elevation has increased by more than 60 feet above the 2005 low of 3562 ft. As of January 29, at 3622 ft. the lake is within three feet of the January 29 average of 3625 feet elevation. The volume of water in the lake has increased by 65% in the last five years to 4.5 trillion gallons. (At movie theater prices for bottled water, that could almost erase the US National Debt.)
The Earth had passed through warming and cooling cycles for billions of years before humans even existed, yet we are told that the generation of carbon dioxide through the use of machinery in manufacturing, transportation or any other use is causing the build-up of "greenhouse gases" in the atmosphere. We are told to give up the use of coal, oil and natural gas. That is a definition of insanity!
[ERROR UPDATE: The headings (NH and SH) were switched in the two blocks of text in the center of the post. I have fixed them.
If you tag one with a satellite tag in Monterey bay, it will shoot straight across to Indonesia, Professor Crowder explained.
I haven't done a study of the levels each year, but if my memory serves me correctly these levels were higher than most previous years....something confirmed by an air quality scientist at Puget Sound Clean Air Agency. Why?
Another notable aspect of these negotiations in recent years has been their insulation from reality. It has often seemed that the negotiators have been determined to produce another piece of paper without taking any notice of whether the commitments made in previous pieces of paper are being fulfilled or even paid any attention. At Bali, I think, a glimmer of reality made its way into the negotiations. This is a most welcome change and will lead to further positive changes in the negotiations if pursued. Therefore, before discussing the specific outcomes in Bali, the roles of the United States and other key countries, and what I believe should be the goals for future climate policies, I would like to discuss some of the realities that provide the backdrop to Bali and all future negotiations on a post-Kyoto global warming treaty.
No, I don't believe that is necessarily true. While many global warming crisis skeptics and limited government advocates continue to be terribly disappointed that the Court has declined to review either the Endangerment Rule or subsequent Tailpipe Rule, the case could still rekindle public and policymaker support for legislative action to rein in the agency and contain fallout from Mass v. EPA.
A climate criminal eagerly anticipates something which they say is catastrophic
Three different TSI measurement composites (since 1980) provide diffrences in absolute scale, temporal structure, solar minimum levels, long-term trends.
Christie Pulls New Jersey Out of Climate Pact
How Wikipedia's green doctor rewrote 5,428 climate articles
YouTube - Undue Panic Over Global Warming FoxBusinessNetwork May 28, 2010 Bjorn Lomborg, author of "The Skeptical Environmentalist", argues we need to be smart about global warming and not rush into making policies out of panic and fear.
"Without a fundamental transformation of the development model and substantial adjustment of the industrial structure, China will find it impossible to achieve the 2020 emissions reduction goal," said the Chinese Academy of Sciences study.
on repairing a financial system that was in much worse shape than ours is today,
Is that conflicted picture "pablum"? Whatever value judgment one puts on it, it is the reality of climate change science today. And given the persistence of these vast uncertainties in the science, the most counterproductive approach to the problem we could take is to ignore or even disguise those uncertainties. The challenge, in fact, is to embrace that uncertaintyto accept it, and find ways to craft policy despite itnot to deny it. Yet the one thing that advocates, politicians, and the media abhor is uncertainty and complexity. Until all sides in the climate change debate can agree on some basic factswhat is known, what is not known, and what needs to be known to draw meaningful conclusionswe can have little hope of reaching greater consensus on the thorny policy issues.
Practical Action has built multipurpose flood shelters in the north that lend full-scale protection to livestock and people, and have had huge successes growing pumpkins on sandbars; the United Nations Development Programme is trialing disaster-proof villages, ringed entirely by dykes, with houses mounted on concrete legs. Environmental challenges also drive great innovation in national NGOs. Shidhulai Swanirvar Sangstha has built a fleet of floating, solar-powered schools. Another outfit sails along the coast offering hospital services.
And Morano is the mastermind behind it all, Die Zeit wants its readers to believe.
The Board voted 6-2 in favor of amending the standards to, as the Charleston Daily Mail reports, "allow students to use scientific models to form their own conclusions on the debated topic."
A new report, "Climate Change Energy Power and National Power" by three retired U.S. Navy admirals reviews the Obama administration's 2010 "National Security Strategy" has just been published by the Heartland Institute. The authors warn that "The U.S. government is defaulting on its responsibility to develop and execute a credible national energy policy. This failure is suppressing the nation's economy and reducing the U.S. influence in world affairs." Administration demands that the Navy and other elements of our military use biofuels rather than traditional sources of energy put it at risk to defend the nation.
The Pinatubo eruption threw more sunlight-reflecting aerosols into the stratosphere since the Krakatoa outburst in 1883. Its millions of tonnes of sulphur dioxide reduced incident sunlight and had a maximum of 0.4 deg C cooling effect on global temperatures and an influence that lasted for several years.
Klimamanifest video, Part 1 of 10. In 2009 Schellnhuber claimed that the Himalayan melt by 2035 was very easy to calculate.
Former NASA scientist Dr. Roy Spencer says that climate models used by government agencies to create policies ?have failed miserably.? Spencer analyzed 90 climate models against surface temperature and satellite temperature data, and found that more than 95 percent of the models ?have over-forecast the warming trend since 1979, whether we use their own surface temperature dataset (HadCRUT4), or our satellite dataset of lower tropospheric temperatures (UAH).?
Clinton's proposal had cunningly undermined Beijing's leadership over the developing bloc of countries. In anger, Chinese officials responded that such demands were an insult to China and would be a violation of Chinese sovereignty and national interests. Wen had been outflanked and was angry, even leaving the conference centre and subsequently snubbing Obama in a couple of previously planned bilateral and multinational meetings involving the US president.
Inauguration money is of particular interest because the committee can use the money however it pleases. If Obama's PIC has money left over, it can use that money for grassroots political activity supporting Obama's agenda or nearly anything.
The USA may be doing better than the EuroZone, but were more of a Not Dead Yet! than a growing well.
Climate Optimum (CO), at 8 to 5 ka. Following the CO, temperatures cool to a minimum of 0.5 K colder than the present at around 2 ka. The record implies that the medieval period around 1000 A.D. was 1 K warmer than present in Greenland. Get copy here
Jones said temperature records may fractionally underestimate warming because of gaps in measurements in the Arctic for 1961-90, the benchmark years for judging change, and problems in verifying ocean temperatures. The world is probably a little warmer than we are measuring, he said. Read more here of Jones spinning more tales.
By giving them access to proper investment capital and affordable financial institutions, microfinance providers help small- and medium-sized enterprises in developing countries to grow. Often, these businesses are so small that they can neither afford the interest rates on bank loans nor come up with the capital they need on the their own. When implemented correctly, microfinance loans empower their customers to invest, grow, and be productive, all of which contribute to diminishing poverty within communities.
It is true that Syria suffered a drought in 2007-8, which can clearly be seen in the chart. And no doubt the internal displacement that is attributed to this drought changed conditions that would be significant later on. But is it enough to say that climate change was a factor in the conflict which developed several years later? It doesnt seem to account for the political changes seen in Egypt. Nor in Tunisia.
majority of Iran's enriched uranium from the country in exchange for civilian nuclear fuel.
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