Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
Since 2000, water vapor in the stratosphere decreased by about 10 percent. The reason for the recent decline in water vapor is unknown. The new study used calculations and models to show that the cooling from this change caused surface temperatures to increase about 25 percent more slowly than they would have otherwise, due only to the increases in carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.
Optimists now believe that China will move in the new round of climate negotiations toward an actual trajectory of cutbacks, but there is no sign of that ambition in the current position paper.
Then there is this guy spending 15 minutes showing a bunch of folks in some family look a whole lot like folks from the event. Then again, folks of similar minority genetics often look similar. That hes picked out the Jews to pick on doesnt sit well with me either. OTOH, its a more genetically closed community in some ways so more likely to have folks with a similar look. (While various sub populations are quite different, inside individual groups, they often lived in the same areas for a long time in the past.)
Contrary to popular belief, ethanol fuel will do little or nothing to increase our energy security or stabilize fuel prices. Instead, it will increase greenhouse gas emissions, local air pollutant emissions, fresh water scarcity, water pollution (both riparian and oceanic), land and ecosystem consumption, and food prices.
The series would start in 1930. As this is one of the coldest years in the entire record, the start date should help the warming trend NIWA is seeking.
So like any proper solid state physicist, Sachdev doesn't care about the right theories at the Planck scale or any other scale that is more fundamental than the characteristic scale of the phenomena in the common materials, for that matter. But even in this seemingly mundane realm that looks as non-fundamental as Radiohead, one may apply relationships that were found by physicists who analyzed a consistent description of quantum gravitational phenomena who studied string theory in its familiar regime.
The National Post also reported on March 29 that Prime Minister Jean Chretien "appeared to be softening his commitment to ratifying the Kyoto Protocol."
The rumors about Antarctica losing mass are from some fatally flawed gravity studies from the University of Texas a few years ago, done by people who were too stupid to know that glacial rebound causes the bedrock below the glaciers to change elevation. Their legacy of junk science continues to grow and expand.
Of all 1208 series, there were only a small fraction which were not artificially infilled prior to screening. Yup, only a few percent gave the dog its wag.
A second objection has to do with the Second Law of Thermodynamics. It is claimed that since the greenhouse effect depends partly upon cooler upper layers of the atmosphere emitting infrared radiation toward the warmer, lower layers of the atmosphere, that this violates the 2nd Law, which (roughly speaking) says that energy must flow from warmer objects to cooler objects, not the other way around.
White House internal communications during the companys final days include an email about a planned meeting to discuss Solyndra on August 29, 2011. Heather Zichal, a senior energy policy aide, and Deputy OMB Director Jeffrey Zients were slated to brief other officials.
So how do we know that the US used to be hotter? Over the past century, the percentage of maximum temperature readings over 100 degrees has dropped precipitously.
Heres another one, about six months after being refilled with the overburden (or the muck as its known in Northumbria, and pronounced mook):
"Actually, this contains considerable distortion. In truth, no one knows how much the world will warm, exactly when or with what consequences. Any self-respecting judge will dismiss this suitand do more. Because the only point is political self-promotion, the judge ought to require the attorneys general to pay court costs and defendants' costs from their own pockets. There's a name for what the attorneys general are making of themselves: a public nuisance."
Agreement 8 is a bilateral between the U.S. and Swedish armed forces to collaborate on "environmental protection in defense matters." The parties seek to share and develop information and technologies to eliminate or reduce the environmental impacts of military bases and operations, mitigate the noise effects of military exercises, and remediate defense-related environmental damages, among other similar purposes.
Once the intraparty finger-pointing subsides, the GOP can get down to the business of improving its "brand." That won't begin until spring, when the party has voted on new congressional leadership and a new chairman of the Republican National Committee.
If I can restore the computer from its current paperweight status, the round-up will happen tomorrow.
Dr. Judith Curry, in a very long assessment of lessons learned since Hurricane Katrina in 2005, notes that there is still uncertainty of exact causes of frequency and intensity. But, the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) and the North Pacific Gyre Oscillation (NPGO) have dominant impacts on hurricane variability in the Pacific, and modulates the frequencies of El Nino/La Nina. Curry says, I suspect that the combination of the PDO and NPGO can explain much of the variability in Ryan Maues analysis of Accumulated Cyclone Energy diagram, given that the majority of global hurricanes occur in the Pacific. In the Atlantic, the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO), the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO), and Atlantic Meridional Mode (AMM) have all been invoked to explain variability in the Atlantic
Security researchers think that Vole will have an update for its browser in about a week.
Some people's idea that quantum mechanics actually "sends signals faster than light" or "instantly influences space-like separated regions or electrons" is just flawed. It is typically a result of these people's trying to imagine a "classical model" that "emulates" quantum mechanics. Such a classical model may indeed require nonlocal interactions and they would violate the principles of special relativity.
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As the CO 2 content of the air rises, most plants respond by increasing their photosynthetic rates, which results in greater leaf carbohydrate concentrations, including starch. It has been suggested that starch accumulation may signal photosynthetic acclimation in response to growth in elevated CO 2 conditions. However, in the present study, transformed potatoes lacked the ability to accumulate starch, yet they still displayed reduced rates of photosynthesis. This observation suggests that rates of starch synthesis can influence rates of photosynthesis. Thus, as the CO 2 content of the air continues to rise, the enhanced ability of plants to synthesize starch from increased photosynthetic products should allow them to maintain their higher rates of photosynthesis, which ultimately should stimulate their growth and biomass production.
The same abhorrence of rapid change that fuels working-class fear of liberal progressivism works against rapid conservative political action. In that 1964 article, Reagan argued that conservatives lost not because of their ideas, but because liberals portrayed them "as advancing a kind of radical departure from the status quo." Today's Tea Party enthusiasts have displayed a desire for rapid transformation of public policy nearly as strong as that of the liberal progressives. Moving too far, too fast down this road will alienate the very voters who just came over to the GOP.
This makes it absolutely clear what Bryson was referring to. As far as India is concerned, global warming brings less drought, not more.
They observed global temperatures from oceans (blue curve) is well below the disaster scenario since over a decade, and temperatures globally by country inrknat (brown line) is below then half a decade. And P latter rs sliding the observed sea temperatures in the vein lgsta nivn p forecast. Shaviv believes that now is the time to totally scrap the disaster scenarios and adjust down klimatknsligheten.
The authors also offer a valuable and complete history of environmentalists' fraudulent global warming arguments, and they explain how there is a lack of scientific evidence available to support the claim humans are responsible for catastrophic global climate change. Moore and White also show how the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) misled the Supreme Court concerning the safety of carbon dioxide in order to get the Court to declare it a pollutant, which allows EPA to have the power to regulate it.
Examiner Columnist Ron Arnold is executive vice president of the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise.
Empirical evidence does not lend much support to the notion that climate is headed precipitately toward more extreme heat and drought. The drought of 1999 covered a smaller area than the 1988 drought, when the Mississippi almost dried up. And 1988 was a temporary inconvenience as compared with repeated droughts during the 1930s Dust Bowl that caused an exodus from the prairies, as chronicled in Steinbecks Grapes of Wrath.
Climate change is real, just like Al Gore, James Hansen and the worlds other climate alarmists vehemently contend. In fact, its the norm. And in the most recent manifestation of this change, Earths climate has shifted over the past century or so from the coldest period of the current interglacial to a significantly warmer state, but one that may still not have achieved the level of warmth characteristic of the prior Medieval Warm Period or the earlier Roman Warm Period?? Read More
Johanna As jamspid pointed out, what on earth have Boko Haram or ISIS got to do with Bush and Blair? I doubt that most of their members have ever heard of Bush and Blair, or their doctrine.
Spooky close if they are not the same. Yet Ive had my mother tell me that my cousin looked just like me, so it happens.
Here we have a Professor of Systematic Music (makes me wonder what Unsystematic Music sounds like probably rock n roll) speaking as an expert for the scientific consensus on climate. This, of course, should simply be ridiculed. If you accept Consensus Climate Science, and you are a musicologist, you must acknowledge that you have no right to your opinion. You are not a climatologist; you are not an ethicist. You have nothing at all to say that anyone other than a Denier of Consensus would listen to.
It was considerably warmer than the present in nearly all of the past 600 million years; warmer by up to 6 Celsius degrees in each of the past four interglacial warm periods over the past 650,000 years; warmer in at least 7500 of the past 11,400 years since the end of the last Ice Age; warmer in the Holocene, Bronze Age, Roman and medieval warm periods, warmer (in the most reliably-recorded parts of the world, such as the US and the Arctic) in the 1930s.
Schneiderman complains that Exxon noted that "switching over to renewables by the end of this century would raise energy costs" substantially, and that the company "essentially ruled out the possibility that governments would adopt climate policies stringent enough to force it to leave its reserves in the ground, saying that rising population and global energy demand would prevent that." The smoking gun he points to is Exxon's statement that "Meeting these needs will require all economic energy sources, especially oil and natural gas."
The two Chinese researchers determined that "the ~21-year, ~115-year and ~200-year periodic oscillations in global-mean temperature are forced by and lag behind solar radiation variability," and they report that the "relative warm spells in the 1940s and the beginning of the 21st century resulted from overlapping of warm phases in the ~21-year and other oscillations," noting that "between 1994 and 2002 all four periodic oscillations reached their peaks and resulted in a uniquely warm decadal period during the last 1000 years," which latter time interval represents the approximate temporal differential between the current Global Warming Period and the prior Medieval Warm Period.
The updated outlook also lowers the overall expected storm activity this season. The outlook now includes a 70 percent chance of 6-10 named storms (from 6-11 in the initial May Outlook), of which 1-4 will become hurricanes (from 3-6 in May), and 0-1 will become major hurricanes (from 0-2 in May). These ranges ??? which include the three named storms to-date (Ana, Bill, and Claudette) ??? are centered well below the seasonal averages of 12 named storms, 6 hurricanes and three major hurricanes.
At the climate activist website Desmogblog, writer and author Chris Mooney says he is appalled at this Washington Postarticle for what he regards as its tarring of climate scientists as radicals or political operatives.
Environmentalists are therefore de facto blocking or hindering the construction of rigasificatori, although the country does not have the certainty to meet the needs of natural gas and energy for the coming winter. Methane can carry only in liquid form, with the tankers, then serve rigasificatori to return it to gaseous form. Plants are very inexpensive, non-polluting, and very safe. And since 1930 that an accident does not occur in thousands of rigasificatori around the world. Blocking of rigasificatori no scientific reasons, only unattivit policy, to make necessary a colossal investment on solar power plants, which will never have an economic advantage.
About 40% of U.S. grown corn is used for ethanol, not food or livestock feed. When the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) examined the effect of ethanol subsidies on food prices, it found that 10% to 15% of price increases could be attributed to ethanol subsidies. Food accounts for 16% of all expenditures for those in the lowest fifth of income-earners, so the ethanol mandate is highly regressive.
UPDATE : My apologies to those who are new to this discussion. I tried to limit the time of the video and that meant I couldnt include a detailed explanation of the mechanisms that cause the natural warming of the oceans. However, I should have provided links to additional information in the post. The primary mechanism for the natural warming of the global oceans is El Nio-Southern Oscillation. It is discussed in detail in the following two-part video series titled The Natural Warming of the Global Oceans. Links: Part 1 and Part 2 .
The really funny thing is that Holman's complaint about my
Changes in Arctic and Antarctic annual mean sea ice extent (a) and volume (b) at the end of the 21st century. For each model the left (right) bar represents Arctic (Antarctic). The model FGOALS-g1.0 was excluded from the model average. The extent projections, which is what Live Science are discussing, doesn't seem to make the case.
Alexander said over the last 150 years, data shows surface temperatures have increased and the associated impacts on biological and physical systems have become more evident. Some of the more notable changes that have gradually occurred are sea level rise, shifts in climatic zones, changes in precipitation patterns and increases in frequency and magnitude of extreme weather events like droughts, floods and storms.
It therefore follows, that if the alarmists predict 0.2C warming per decade then, when we get a pause, it proves that there is sufficient natural variation to have caused all the post global cooling scare warming. Therefore:
The following statement in the Economist article bears repeating: But at their best, religion and environmentalism interconnect in a much more positive way. The Creation Care movement among Evangelicals is a good example of this.
Could This Email To Paul Ceglia Cost Mark Zuckerberg 50% of Facebook?:
The other was a dissertation written by a geography student, studying for the equivalent of a masters degree, at the University of Berne in Switzerland that quoted interviews with mountain guides in the Alps.
So, the long and short of it is, if youre looking for a job, you might want to consider Texas.
Lucky turned out to be a great dog. On his walks he played alternately with a plastic, squeaky boomerang (boomy) and a ball. Everyone who knew him liked him, and he liked them too. He didnt like most other dogs, not helped by the fact that he was attacked by two Staffordshire Bull Terriers as a young dog. For 12 years he gave us the unconditional love, entertainment and companionship. So many happy memories.
Since 1998, the warmest year of the twentieth century, temperatures have not kept up with computer models that seemed to project steady warming; theyre perilously close to falling beneath even the lowest projections.
This is referring to the Wilkins Aerodrome which is located about 70km SE of Casey Base and is scraped out of glacier ice about 700 metres thick.
This past decades net decline in terrestrial productivity illustrates that a complex interplay between temperature, rainfall, cloudiness, and carbon dioxide, probably in combination with other factors such as nutrients and land management, will determine future patterns and trends in productivity, Wickland said.
The worldwide crash of green energy companies New apparent record for govt. waste: $24.4 million per 'green job' Obama's green energy scorecard: $2.7 billion in losses After blowing $593 million on failed solar companies, Obama plans to blow $622 million more on new solar companies The Cellulosic Ethanol Debacle Nevergreen Solar: Taxpayers blow another $58 million on 'green' energy Latest Obama green energy scandal wastes $142 million from taxpayers Latest Obama half-billion-dollar green energy debacle More
There has been a good deal of research over the years aimed towards assessing the impacts of human health from air pollution from coal-fired utilities. And empirical relationships have been developed which attempt to link atmospheric levels of various air pollutants to changes in the human mortality rate. The sensitivity portrayed in these concentration-response curves varies largely from research study to research study.
On the path to this noble target, adult citizens are being treated like children. The program is in easy language that is especially designed for people with learning difficulties, reading impairments and speech problems, and so verily pushes infantilism to a new high.
Britain's Future Lies With America, Not Europe
Clearly, even if the observed uncertainty was as small as concluded byLevitus et al 2012 any attempt tousethe multi-decadal climate model predictions to provide an explantion forthis warming at depth (even if real)is not robust scientifically.
Notwithstanding the failure of models to get the tropical troposphere right, when discussing fidelity to temperature trends the SPM of the AR5 declares Very High Confidence in climate models (p.15). But they also declare low confidence in their handling of clouds (p. 16), which is very difficult to square with their claim of very high confidence in models overall. They seem to be largely untroubled by trend discrepancies over 10-15 year spans (p. 15). Well see what they say about 55-year discrepancies.
The second bad assumption is that the relationship between species number and geographic area is linear or exponential, implying that an infinite increase in area would result in an infinite increase in the number of species. But research by Dr. Patrick Kangas at the U. of Maryland found as you continue to increase area, the numbers level off and there is a sort of diminishing return to area increase. (Center for the Study of American Business report on Endangered Species Act, p.40)
Very interesting new poll from Rasmussen that suggests a significant reversal in public opinion over the causes of global warming.
In my own research, I have been unable to find a substantiated report of a child being killed or seriously injured by a contaminated treat picked up in the course of trick-or-treating.
High volume pumps from as far as Nottingham have been deployed to tackle the huge wood chippings blaze, which started on Monday morning
So, while we really dont know which storm had higher winds, we do know that more affluent societies are much less affected by even the strongest storms. As Indur Goklany, (who writes frequently for Cato) has pointed out, if left to develop, the entire world will be much more resilient to climate change than it would be if the ineffective policies to stop it slowed economic growth.
However little Eli Rabbitt seems to have quickly retreated from the USHCN garden and decamped overseas, where his latest carrot pick is the De Bilt weather station in Holland, a site that is incinerator and barbecue free. The De Bilt station has moved a couple of times in the past century, but each move is relatively well-documented; there are photos not just of the current location but of the location in the 1930s and even the 19th century.
Solomon tried to correct misinformation he found on Wikipedia regarding S. Fred Singer, a preeminent U.S. scientist who taught at the University of Virginia, served in the U.S. Department of Commerce and at the Environmental Protection Agency, and for five years was vice-chair of the U.S. Advisory Commission on Oceans and Atmospheres. Singer has published dozens of papers and several books on atmospheric science and global warming in particular.
17 See, for example, Corporate Environmental Enforcement Council, NSR Enforcement White Paper, May 23, 2001, p. 25.
On 22 September, the winter maximum ice sheet extent across the Antarctic reached its greatest area since satellite measurement of the ice extent began in 1979 .
Myths of Global Warming Cited as Kyoto Nears
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negative trends) between 500 and 700 hPa? No models with significant surface
Below is a link to an awful piece by Legates. He told me he is a writing a paper, but
Meanwhile, the Indians are just not going to tell the EU how much they emit:
HEM is based on well-established economic theory as well as historical data, and contains a variety of modules that interact with each other for long-term forecasting. In particular, HEM focuses on the interactions among (1) the supply, conversion, and demand of energy in its various forms; (2) American energy and the overall American economy; (3) the American energy market and the world petroleum market; and (4) current production and consumption decisions as well as expectations about the future. These 12 modules are:
The year 2007 is now very likely to become RSS MSU's 9th warmest year on record which really means one of the coldest years of our times. It will end up colder than all other years in the 21st century so far as well as 1998 (by 0.4 ??C) and 1995. We explained that 2006 was very cold but 2007 will be shown as 0.1 ??C colder.
Within a mere nine years, global warning could produce temperature spikes so elevated as to generate massive cat mortality? The idea is so ludicrous that I hardly know where to begin. Domestic cats, as anyone who has spent any time around them surely understands, are heat-seeking creatures; native to the Middle East and North Africa, they thrive in the worlds hottest environments. Yet Oreskes and Conway expect us to believe that within a few decades normal temperatures across much of the West will exceed the tolerance threshold of the house cat? ...
During recent years, there have been a number of Category 4 hurricanes that might have only been classified as weak hurricanes or even tropical storms if they had taken place at the same location during the late 1940s and early 1950s.
Activists to rally in favor of Wis high-speed rail:
Well, apparently Mr Watts was keen to trump Richard Muller, from Berkeley University, who was about to announce that he had an article ready for publication. But Professor Mullers article proved that not only were temperatures rising, and the official temperature record accurate, but that the temperature rise could be attributed to carbon dioxide.
Fenton also was a major force in the silicone breast implant scare, serving as the PR firm to the trial lawyers in implant litigation.