Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
Bellantuono et al . say their findings suggest that "the physiological plasticity of the host and/or symbiotic components appears to play an important role in responding to ocean warming," and they go on to describe some real-world examples of where this phenomenon may have played a crucial role in preserving corals exposed to extreme warm temperatures in the past (Fang et al ., 1997; Middlebrook et al ., 2008; Maynard et al ., 2008), all of which suggests, of course, that earth's corals may be much better adapted to dealing with global warming than has long been believed.
In our column from the previous month , we took a lookat the ice volume in the Arctic. Since then summer has come to an end and the data for the May-August period are now available from PIOMAS .
Today, our own Margaret Wente and Rex Murphy sing in tune with the likes of Glenn Beck, sincerely believing their skepticism to be a form of intellectual virtue. It is not.
Herrick and Thomas conclude that atmospheric CO 2 enrichment stimulates the seasonally integrated carbon gain of sweetgum trees by increasing rates of leaf photosynthesis, but not by changing leaf phenology. They also demonstrate that the CO 2 -induced stimulation of photosynthesis has now persisted in these specific trees for several years, with no indication it is in process of significantly declining. References
Figure 3 shows the global temperature projections from the BAU scenario, along with the successive adherence to the Kerry-Lieberman emissions schedule by the U.S., the OECD90 countries (industrialized countries including the U.S., Western Europe, Australia and Japan), and the entire world. Basically, unless the developing world comes on board, the world?s future temperature pathway will be largely unchanged.
In ???The scandal of fiddled global warming data,?? Christopher Booker points out how one of the graphs of US surface temperature records published by NOAA, one of the worlds most influential climate records, has been ???shamelessly manipulated.??
Open access to natural resource development. The next Administration should open all federal waters and federal lands that are not part of the national park system or congressionally designated areas to exploration and production for all of America's natural resources. Congress should require the Department of the Interior to conduct lease sales if a commercial interest exists whether for offshore oil or offshore wind. Congress should also force the Interior Department to use its flexibility under its current authority to attract interest to federal lands, such as streamlining of red tape or reducing royalties. Ideally, states should be given charge of managing resource development within their boundaries and off their shores.
Because of the low photosynthetic efficiency and the competition of energy plants with food plants for agricultural land, we should not grow plants for biofuel production. The growth of such energy plants will undoubtedly lead to an increase in food prices, which will predominantly hit poorer people.
Study of Gravity Exposes Weakness of Global Warming Theories
Indian Drought of 1900-1/4 to 3 1/4 million die due to drought, starvation and disease
Over at his blog, Thomas Fuller gives many reasons not to take at face value the claims that climate change contributed to the conflict in Syria. These include (in no order):
Nicolas D. Loris, "The Many Problems of the EPA's Clean Power Plan and Climate Regulations: A Primer," Heritage Foundation Backgrounder No. 3025, July 7, 2015, http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2015/07/the-many-problems-of-the-epas-clean-power-plan-and-climate-regulations-a-primer.
This volume can be regarded as an observation-based response to the IPCC reports from the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climatic Change (NIPCC) .
One reason we have been so unprepared for the past three winters has been the obsession of our government and other authorities with global warming. They kept listening to climate change campaigners warning that Britain will heat up four or five degrees and believed we would never have cold weather again. They wrote reports suggesting ways of coping with heatwaves such as planting palm trees to keep the pavements cool but ignored the threat of snow and ice. -?Ross Clark, Daily Express, 3 December 2010
Mumby and Harborne's findings suggest that marine reserves can indeed "build coral resilience and offset the effects of global climate change." And they also suggest that were it not for the site-specific deleterious effects of humanity on reef environments, this would likely be the case nearly everywhere, which in turn suggests that the local environmental impacts of man are what are harming earth's corals, and not the more speculative global impacts that the world's climate alarmists typically blame on anthropogenic CO 2 emissions. Reviewed 31 March 2010
At the same time, Santorum was leveling similar attacks at Romney, who supported carbon reductions when he was governor, before changing course to oppose the 10-state cap-and-trade program called the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.
So the fact that individuals are voluntarily sending money to pay for the Forest Service to plant tress (and other stuff) is proof of a plan to sell off all government-owned land. That's some tortured logic worthy of Moonbat himself. All of this, however, is strictly academic, since we all know that even if we were facing a future of catastrophic anthropogenic climate change, carbon sinks wouldn't do any good anyway. Take it from the journal Nature:
As the table shows, there is no clear-cut answer as to what is happening to sea levels in the Pacific. If we average the data, we get a sea level fall of -11.2 mm/yr., but this still tells us almost nothing and has little meaning to an island such as Tonga, which is experiencing sea level rise. Given the large differences in sea level change it's difficult to know what is going on (www.vision.net.au/~daly).
Poll Finds Party Polarization on Global Warming
Wal-Mart teams up with labor unions to launch a new health care program for workers.
Contrary to what you may have heard, both of those huge ice sheets are growing.
Mazzarella and Scafetta say their findings and analysis indicate that "the global climate likely presents a ~60-year oscillation since at least 1700," and that "this natural oscillation was in its warm phase during the period 1970-2000 and has likely largely contributed to the global warming during this period," which finding, in their words, "confirms a quasi 60-year cycle in the climate system that further confirms the result of Loehle and Scafetta (2011)," i.e., that "the climate models used by the IPCC have significantly overestimated the anthropogenic effect on climate since 1950 by three to four times." And we also note, in this regard, that the several real-world or "natural" experiments of Idso (1998) suggest that even the anthropogenic-induced warming component of Loehle and Scafetta is likely too large. What it means
This value is very important for calculating the amount of energy that the carbon dioxide absorbs and emits each second. Given the specific heat capacity of the carbon dioxide at its current density and temperature, which is of the order of ~871 J/Kg K, the carbon dioxide is not the cause of any change of the Earths climate.
Odd couple: Will Dow Chemical and Ed Markey's opposition to natural gas exports cripple America's energy advantage?
What the pessimists missed, however, was the successful launch last Friday of United Launch Alliance's Atlas V booster, carrying a GPS satellite into orbit the fiftieth such successful launch and powered by the same kind of seventies-era RD-180 engine that blew up on the Orbital Science platform.
I warned at the start of the post that wed see the usual Mannian debating trick. B-C said that the Mannian method was "susceptible" to nonsense regressors, a view that I share. Watch the pea under the thimble. Mann re-states this as being "necessarily" and then tries to show a situation where the problem doesnt occur thereby supposedly refuting the original claim.
So imagine how completely flabbergasted I am when I hear nonsense about co2 and causing global warming and Irene is a product of that, , when in a 2 year stretch, 1954-1955 6 hurricanes, affected N Carolinas with at least hurricane conditions and 8 in a 7 year stretch from 1954-1960. And cat 2 or greater in New England with a sideswipe to the west from the great Hazel in 1954, and then Donna in 1960, a storm that gave hurricane force winds to every state on the east coast.
Attending Heartland's Fourth International Conference were seventy-three distinguished scientists, economists, and policy experts from twenty-three countries. The speakers were all united in thought that the time is now to reconsider the science and economics of global warming. New scientific discoveries cast doubt on how much of the warming during the twentieth century was man-caused, and how much was due to natural causes. Governments around the world have begun to recognize the astronomical cost of reducing emissions, and how the cost of slowing or stopping global warming might exceed the societal benefits. Even so, not all seventy-three of the invited guests agreed on the causes, extent, or the consequences of climate change.
About 2/3 of the Americans, including John Kerry and Oliver Stone , believe that there is some deeper story behind the murder than a lone gunman named Lee Harvey Oswald. Holy crap. Why are they doing it? I have already mentioned that they probably want to "restore some order", to save their (incorrect) assumption that famous men may only be killed by other famous men or their collectives.
Twitter / billmckibben: Quite a large, actually a truly
EPA Offers Draconian "Guidance" for Global Warming Energy Restrictions
By Donn Dears, Power For USA, Aug 11, 2015
He understands that there are risks to over-reacting, because wealthier societies are safer societies, and radical climate policy can threaten that wealth; and
The Green Jobs conceit goes like this: the government should offer tax credits and impose regulations that lead businesses to implement environmentally-friendly practices. This will create jobs doing what's needed to qualify for the credits or comply with the regulations. Most importantly, carbon regulation (most likely in the form of Cap and Trade) will lead to investments in technology that reduces carbon emissions.
EXAMPLE: WHY DIDNT THE CONSENSUS OF REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELS PREDICT TIMING, EXTENT AND DURATION OF THE CALIFORNIA DROUGHT?
??They are obviously tuttorecchi to know who can deal better than me, than you will reduce global temperature in 2020 thanks to 20-20-20. Lomborg also on Sole24Ore recently spoke of hundredths of a degree, in 2100.
I would like to weigh in or maybe kick the door down.
At -67 degrees, the pro is concerned about damage to the greens.
The attachment was a polite rejection of our paper. Included were the complete reviews. Although some of the points in the reviews were, in fact, addressed in our paper, we thought it advisable to respond to the reviews in detail, and to revise our paper in order to clarify matters. It was, however, clear, that the revised paper would no longer satisfy the space constraints of PNAS ? especially since the reviewers made clear that important material should not be relegated to ?supplementary material?.
By Dan Murtaugh, Bloomberg, Aug 12, 2015
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He replied, soaking it all up. In a bold twist reminiscent of Soviet psychologists, he called the skeptics bullies and the attacks orchestrated:
Automobile designers have long recognized ethanol's potential as motor vehicle fuel. The first American internal combustion prototype made by Samuel Morey in 1826 ran on ethanol, and it remained the dominant automotive fuel until 1908, when a combination of rapidly dropping gasoline prices and rapidly increasing ethanol prices led the Ford Motor Company to introduce the Model T, an early "flex-fuel" vehicle that could use either gasoline or ethanol. Gasoline/ethanol blends were used until the 1920s in the United States and the 1930s in Europe but were finally replaced by gasoline with lead additives, which was discovered to stop engine knocking. Ethanol blends were essentially off the market by 1940.
Only 7000 years ago the earth was warmer, a lot warmer. In fact it was enough warmer that TREES WERE GROWING OLD WHERE GLACIERS NOW LAY!!!!. When you first read most warming in 7000 years, it is shocking, . . . but taken in context it means that the Earth WITH NO PEOPLE MAKING CO2 will still MELT THE DAMN GLACIERS! They say Historic minimum, but melting of ice clearly happens naturally.
Actually the arctic ice is very 3rd highest level since 2002, very close to 2003, in a virtual tie to last winter and the highest year according to IARC-JAXA . The anomaly is a relatively small 300,000 square km according to The Cryosphere Today.
And if the higher profits of koda depend on the salaries, well, it means that the salaries in koda should relatively go up while those in other parts of the VW Group should go down. The average wage in koda is 1.5 times higher than the average Czech salary, so it's a great employer, but it's still lower than in VW Germany. There is some evidence that this gap at least overstates the difference between VW and koda and the difference may already have the opposite sign than what we would have assumed for 2 decades.
It is time to demand, unequivocally, that the warmies tell us exactly what would falsify the theory of AGW. And it is time to demand that the EPA Administrator answer that question under oath before Congress.
One-fiftieth of a Celsius degree of warming forestalled is all that complete, global compliance with the Copenhagen Accord for an entire decade would achieve. Yet the cost of achieving this result an outcome so small that our instruments would not be able to measure it would run into trillions of dollars. Do your Treasury models demonstrate that this calculation is in any way erroneous? If they do, junk them.
???he impact that emissions reduction efforts in the U.S. will have on global emissions totals???andby extension, global climate???is quickly diminishing.??
From President Obama, in campaign rather than governing mode these days, we hear denunciations of Republicans for killing proposals for legalizing illegal immigrants.
However, these actions are essential if the United States is to have an economic and employment revival, and poor, minority, and blue-collar families are to be protected from regulatory excess and unaccountable ruling elites.
This article appeared on Dr. Spencer's weblog at http://www.drroyspencer.com/
on Thursday, December 16th, 2010 at 3:39 am and is filed under Uncategorized.
Bottom right: Adjustments from GISS-GHCN raw data. GISS-GHCN version minus 4 versions.
Nicolas D. Loris, "No More Energy Subsidies: Prevent the New, Repeal the Old," Heritage Foundation Backgrounder No. 2587, July 26, 2011, http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2011/07/no-more-energy-subsidies-prevent-the-new-repeal-the-old.
The $800 per-household expenditure is merely the cost of building the transmission lines. Wind power is more expensive to produce than conventional power sources, so Texas consumers will also pay electricity premiums every year.
In addition to traditional public service announcements, prominent green organizations have recently added the political attack ad to their public-relations portfolio. Indeed, environmentalists now run some of the most aggressive negative advertisements in the media business. It doesn't matter if you are a Republican or a Democrat; if you don't toe the green line, these advocacy groups will go for your political jugular.
I recently had a post about why $5 per gallon gas would be good for America, because the higher the price and the longer gas stays expensive, the greater the conservation, and the greater the chance we'll someday see viable alternatives. In today's Washington Post, Robert Samuelson has an excellent, related article ("A Full Tank of Hypocrisy"):It's one of those delicious moments when Washington's hypocrisy is on full and unembarrassed display. On the one hand, some of America's leading politicians condemn high gasoline prices and contend that they stem from "gouging" by oil companies. On the other, many of the same politicians warn against global warming and implore us to curb our use of fossil fuels that emit carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas.
However, thinking back upon the results from Santer et al., the same is probably is not entirely true for all of the climate model runs for the 1979-2010 time period. Almost certainly, the combination of random variability has added some amount of noise to the trend distribution even at time frames of 30 years or so.
According to these results there wont be any significant global warming between now and 2100 provided my analysis is realistic. Is it? Well, its admittedly speculative. But then, so are the climate models the IPCC uses to make its official global warming predictions. And my models fit observations a lot better too.
A Chinese icebreaker named Snow Dragon ( MV Xue Long ) was sent to liberate the Russian vessel. However, this Chinese boat can only penetrate through the ice that is about 1.5 meters thick ??? and the thickness is 3-4 meters at many places, as I have mentioned. So the Chinese gave it up two days ago ??? while being about 30 km from the Russian vessel.
But the green technologies are not commercially viable to build without the subsidies, which will be paid for through levies on energy consumers bills.
"The Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian had already scheduled a day of events -- including the Indian Summer Showcase 2007, which appeared to be absorbed into "Mother Earth - In the Spirit of the Live Earth Concerts.' There were already going to be performances, drum circles and spiritual/environmental speeches by tribal leaders. Al Gore and the Smithsonian's organizers just figured a way to add Gore's overtly political address and the Garth Brooks/Trisha Yearwood performance to an existing event."
The chart also clearly indicates that billions upon billions of human CO2 emissions have had little, if any, impact on global warming.
Meanwhile, the population bomb has turned out to be a dud worldwide, as birthrates declined, and the real demographic problem, as Ben Wattenberg and Phillip Longman have pointed out, is population decline. Warren Buffett, who planned to leave his fortune to population controllers, wisely decided to leave it Bill and Melinda Gates to spend as they think best.
Australian National Universitys Geoff Cary said a projected lift in temperatures of more than 2C would probably mean much more bushfire activity across the country.
Walking is not as difficult as I imagined. Every twenty steps I have to stop and pull the sleeping bags up over my legs again, but my feet stay warm. In ten minutes we meet another hiker. We must look like the Donner Party, but we tell him everything is okay and keep going. Between the mountain ridges there is a small draw. I slide down one slope, then struggle up the other. It is impossible to get traction. I have to crawl on my stomach. Dylan waits patiently at the top.
Even the catastrophic scenarios painted by enthusiasts clash. In one extreme case, the Greenland ice sheet and much of the polar ice caps could melt, raising the global sea level by as much as 30 feet, inundating billions in coastal areas. (Keep in mind, though, that such a scenario would take decades to play out, unlike a tsunami.) But hold on: A variant of catastrophe theory holds that warming might cause the Greenland and polar ice sheets to thicken and bring on a new ice agethe scenario of the movie The Day After Tomorrow. Incidentally, the sea level would fall by several feet, creating new opportunities for beachfront development.
With the Republicans now in charge come January, Murkowski will become the Chairman of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee. She is expected to start by "holding hearings, pressuring Obama Administration officials, and testing the level of support from party leadership."
To put some perspective on this, here is what 7000 wind turbines across Northern Europe (between the North sea, the Baltic Sea and the Austrian-Swiss border) produced in 2004. You can admire the stable predictable output that comes from averaging so many turbines over such a large area. Right?
Yeah, adding in fudge factors is definitely one way to make the numbers show whatever you'd like them to.
Putin may not have an economy, and his power projection capability may be held together with chicken wire and spit, but the delusions of his opponents have always been his chief tools. European and American leadership since the end of the Cold War has been operating on the false belief that geopolitics had come to an end; they have doubled down on that delusion as geopolitics came roaring back in the Obama years. In the past, Europe was able to take "holidays from history" because the United States was keeping an eye on the big picture. But that hasn't been true in the Obama administration, and the juddering shocks of a destabilizing world order are the consequence of a foreign policy that isn't grounded in the hard facts of power.
The Czech company has been doing some quality cars since the 19th century (founded as Laurin & Klement). It was bought by the non-car industrial giant koda Works, here in Pilsen, in the 1920s. The companies shared and keep on sharing the logo, the winged arrow , even though communism has de facto divided them again. The companies weren't reunited and VW bought the rights from koda Works to co-use the logo in 1991.
Looking at the latest global temperature on Roy Spencers graph, I was struck how half the graph is warmer than the rest. Zealots usually pick on this and ask why have 9 out of the last 10 elections days been warmer than they were, or some other meaningless statistic.
Above all, there is a striking contrast between the careful, measured, balanced tone of Roy Spencers facts, which I have summarized above, and the intemperate, hate-filled Gish gallop of cherry-picked citations, half-truths, and outright falsehoods of which Nuccitelli is yet again guilty.
coordinating with organizers of an April conference in Germany (programme here, registration info here)
Bao et al . next compared their record to other pluvial studies within and around their study region, of which they report "similar fluctuation patterns of drought and pluvial intervals existed in several available tree-ring-based hydroclimatic reconstructions and ours." And based on their record and this regional comparison, Bao et al . conclude that "the recent drought events from late 1990 to the present are not unusual in the context of the past several centuries." Once again, therefore, we have another reliable reconstruction that reveals there is nothing unusual, unnatural, or unprecedented about current (or past!) precipitation variability -- for either floods or droughts -- that would suggest a CO 2 -induced influence.
Interesting juxtaposition of news today record snowfalls at Falls Creek and the ACT GreenLabor Govt inflicting more mad taxes on us. While of course their incomes and super are indexed and paid for by you guessed it us poor sucker voters.
After finding polar bear prints and scat they finally encounter one actual bear, an animal who appears half-starved and confused by the Greenlandic summer, which has rendered the fjords ice-free for a few weeks each year, for the first time in human memory. He has ransacked a remote cabin left behind by other explorers or scientists the only human structure we see in this entire film eaten the entire cache of canned foods and chocolate bars, and left behind a potent stench of polar-bear urine and excrement. If its possible to read the moods of a wild animal, this one seems both bewildered and enraged; its almost as if he understands on some instinctive level that the creatures who left this building and its peculiar treats behind are also responsible for his predicament.