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As reported by the Daily Caller News Foundation, Smith said: "It is this committee's oversight role to ensure that federal science agencies are transparent and accountable to the taxpayers who fund their research." He added: "Americans are tired of research conducted behind closed doors where they only see cherry-picked conclusions, not the facts."
Recently Keigwin??s Sargasso Sea dO18 temperature reconstructions have been mentioned in the climate public eye. Keigwin??s reconstruction famously has a warm MWP as shown below. This reconstruction uses modern dO18 measurements at Station S to calibrate two cores (with modern Station S values specifically shown in the graphic below):
This is a trend that British social commentator James Heartfield called "the retreat from production" in his astute study, Green Capitalism. American society, just like Britain, is increasingly estranged from the world of production. Instead, there is a one-sided emphasis on the world of consumption and a consequent downgrading of the potential to increase production.
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A May 9th ruling by U.S. District of Columbia Judge Amit Mehta determined that the Obama Administration had engaged in "bad faith" for stonewalling repeated Freedom of Information Requests issued by the Competitive Enterprise Institute seeking any such scientific evidence.
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Mr. Lazear, chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers (2006-09) and head of the White House committee on the economics of climate change (2007-08), is a professor at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business and a Hoover Institution fellow.
One possible reason for the reversal, say the researchers, is that now, some of the extra atmospheric carbonraw material for photosynthesis???may be feeding back into living plants and making them grow faster. The extra carbon dioxide in the atmosphere may be providing a fertilizing effect, said study coauthor Timothy Hall , a senior scientist at NASAs Goddard Institute for Space Studies . Many other scientists are now working to determine the possible effects of increased carbon dioxide on plant growth , and incorporate these into models of past and future climates.
Otherwise, the Copenhagen Accord's negligible effect on the climate will have been achieved at the expense of the Australian Constitution, of your right to hold and work your property, and I fear of Peter Spencer's life. If he dies, Kevin Rudd must resign. If I had my way, he would stand trial for crimes against humanity.
What Happens If the Social Costs of Carbon Goes Negative?
Monckton replied with a powerful rebuttal that, point by point, eviscerated Abraham's embarrassingly dishonest production. Monckton called on Abraham and the university to issue a formal apology, remove the libelous presentation from the Internet, and donate $110,000 to a Haitian charity as compensation for the damage done to his reputation.
complicated, BUT I accept the dominant view that people are affecting it, and
All five series show long term warming from either the late 18th or early 19th centuries. Recent years are only marginally the warmest of the entire series because of the warmth of the 1730s (particularly in Western Europe) and the 1820s (Northern Europe) The five series are CET, De Bilt, Berlin, Uppsala, Stockholm.
Once again, over a period of time described by climate alarmists as having experienced "unprecedented" global warming, and in contradiction of the climate-model-inspired assumption that rising global temperatures increase the frequency and intensity of severe storms, real-world data demonstrate that ? it just ain't so .
Emission trading may be severely constrained for other reasons as well. A trading system can be viable only if there are credible mechanisms to monitor trades, keep the books, and punish cheating. Why play by the rules if no one else does, if other countries are free to undercount emissions for domestic producers, or to issue permits exceeding their national quota? Kyoto, however, creates no monitoring and enforcement machinery for emissions trading. It leaves to future conferences the task of setting up the institutions required to audit emissions trades and punish emissions violators.
"(Companies) are waiting to know the criteria to get a permit," said Larry LaPre, a wildlife biologist for BLM's California desert district, of the companies hoping federal agencies will begin permitting again soon. LaPre said he expects it to be "at least a year or longer" before permitting resumes.
A new study led by K.M. Hiremath of the Indian Institute of Astrophysics shows a strong, possibly causative correlation between variations in solar activity and in monsoon rainfall.
Our analysis revealed a shift in coral community composition but no impact of acidification on coral richness, coralline algae abundance, macroalgae cover, coral calcification, or skeletal density. a comparison of the naturally low-pH coral reef systems studied so far revealed increased bioerosion to be the only consistent feature among them, as responses varied across other indices of ecosystem health.
Here??s the MBH98 PC1 (bristlecones) again marking 1934. Given that bristlecone ring width are allegedly responding positively to temperature, it is notable that the notoriously hot 1934 is a downspike.
"Most resolutions," says the Journal, "ask corporations to disclose estimated greenhouse gas emissions from their operations, as well as the products they make, and ask for an assessment of the costs of reducing those levels." One resolution that targets Exxon Mobil Corporation, demands that it separate the positions of chief executive and chairman, saying that Exxon Mobil's CEO and Chairman, Lee Raymond, is endangering shareholder value by his stance on global warming.
The countries during a week of international frhandlingar in Tianjin, China could not agree on another n smsaker. P lrdagen, last mtesdagen, it was clear that the drjer before a new binding climate uppns.
You will also be struck by how cunning these nasty fraudsters are. Science these days is so very highly specialized that a scientist looking at science outside his specialist field is just as much in the dark as a layman with no scientific knowledge at all. If a couple of dozen in different sub-disciplines conspire together to make up bad science and that is what Climategate shows the UN's climate panel did then the vast majority of the thousands of scientists participating worldwide will simply be unaware that they are being deceived, and they will be even more easily deceived than the layman, because they will tend to trust colleagues in their own profession.
Note here that the Russian scientists confirm that the Arctic sea ice extent was also low in the 1930s. This tells us that nothing is really so unusual in the Arctic today.
With Carbon Dioxide Emissions at Record High, Worries on How to Slow Warming
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Given the strenuous efforts EPA has taken to hide these emails,and what we have learned to date, it is more than fair to assume this is more than petulant retaliation, but hidingsomething awfullydamning.
Lifting restrictions on energy production that have little, if any, environmental benefit, will add 700,000 jobs and $3.7 trillion in GDP through 2035. Electricity expenditures for households will decline by up to 10.19 percent per year. For a family of four, this means an additional $40,000 of income by 2035.
It seems that whenever government expands either its powers or its
Warmer daytime + warmer nighttime = Warmer Earth.
of panic in the country over the state of the economy in the midst of the Great
Under the Kyoto Protocol, for example, companies subject to climate regulations can meet their carbon "cap" by paying for emissions reduction projects in developing countries. According to the journal Nature, the U.N. certified $6 billions' worth of emissions "savings" for reductions in HFC-23, a potent greenhouse gas. Yet removing the HFC-23 cost $130 million. That's a lot of waste.
This statement is a further example of the narrow and closed viewpoint illustrated in the released CRU e-mails. I agree with Michael that we have detected human climate forcing effects. To label me as a skeptic, however, is completely wrong (as Andy knows; e.g. see and see )
A keen eyed reader sent me this gem. I think it is from a book Gilgunnia a special place by Leila Alderdice 1994.
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Can the weight of added CO2 explain the 8C change?
Habibullo Abdussamatov, head of the St. Petersburg's Pulkovo Astronomical Observatory in Russia, says the Mars data is evidence that the current global warming on Earth is being caused by changes in the sun.
In anticipation c also the construction of a series of five solar electric power plants to salts, from the cost of billions of Euros. And the Archimedes project, wanted by the minister and processed by Nobel laureate Carlo Rubbia. It is an American technology, 30 years old female, which is to focus the sun's rays with mirrors, on a cylinder flowing salt solutions: never gave cost-effective results.
In Vitro and Ex Vitro Growth of an Epiphytic CAM Orchid
On the other hand, fault can certainly be found in the manner of editing that the White House reportedly engaged in. While it had a responsibility to use this report to articulate administration policy, there was certainly no need to suppress discussion of credible scientific reportsparticularly a report that had been conducted by a blue-ribbon panel at the president's requestin order to do so. Regardless of what agency published the report, one thing is clear: it was a lost opportunity to examine the state of the science, economics, and public policy questions related to global climate change. And a look at what was not discussed reveals how constructive a review of the data could have been.
They claim that 2012 is the warmest year by almost a degree, and they accomplished that by subtracting a degree from the hot years of the 1920s and 1930s.
By Paul Driessen, Townhall, Aug 8, 2015
Recent research has pointed not to an imminent revolution in renewable energy, but rather to its limitations. Solar and wind power combined produce less electricity than what is generated from hydroelectric power alone. All renewables are dwarfed in their contribution to total U.S. energy by oil, gas and coal.
Further, if this is true, then (as is usual in climate-world), ?it?s worse than we thought.? After all, China will eventually reduce their sulfate emissions as their population becomes affluent enough to demand something better than miasmic air. Indeed, they are already beginning to clean things up, and when they finally do, all the cooling particles will be gone and the earth will warm substantially.
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Here . Excerpt: All these well-meaning (if misguided) wannabe critter-savers are being discouraged or are misdirecting their efforts because no one has explained the difference between reality and PlayStation climatology. We do not know and probably never will know what the climate will be in 30 years time. All we really know is that there is an equal chance next year will be either warmer or cooler. We have no evidence of accelerating sea level rise. We have no knowledge of impending disaster or temperature-related catastrophe. What a waste of everyones time and effort.
One likely culprit is the oceans, which already absorb most of the heat. The latest research suggests that more heat than expected could be going into the deep oceans, below 700 metres 7 . Another possibility that scientists have investigated is whether volcanic ash from minor eruptions and pollution from the industrialization of China and other countries are reflecting more of the Sun's energy back into space 8 . Still another is the prolonged lull in solar activity early in the millennium, which might decrease the amount of energy hitting Earth.
1. Hansen made three forecasts, Cook picked scenario B which Hansen described as a reduced linear linear growth of trace gases . Obviously that has not happened and is not the correct one. He should be comparing against scenario A. Joe Romm says that greenhouse gases have been accelerating super-exponentially .
EXTRAS: Dr. Roy Spencer to debunk cloud feedback study w/in hour of its release
Amazing pictures...the clouds reached up to just under 1000 ft. And as you rise above the clouds you enter the inversion and temperature warms rapidly--to roughly 50F at 2500 ft!
Note that the value for the incoming solar radiation (341.3 watts/m^2) is much less than the values you are used to seeing for Total Solar Irradiance (TSI) at the top of the atmosphere, which is about 1366 watts/m^2. Why the lower number in the energy budget? The sun only shines on half the Earth at one time and, because the Earth is spherical, sunlight is not distributed evenly across Earths surface. So the incident shortwave (solar) radiation is the TSI value. See the NASA EarthObservatory webpage Incoming Sunlight for a further discussion.
So why do we persist in scaring ourselves this way? Strangely enough, the reason may lie in how safe our society is for our children. If our children are not subjected to the real horrors of everyday disease, starvation and war that have been major worries for parents throughout history, we still feel a need to protect them from something. The figure of the murderous candy-poisoner or foreign terrorist fills the vacuum well.
To bring manufacturing back to the U.S., or encourage expansion, we need energy that is abundant, available and affordableand we'll need to use more, not less. If we want to balance our trade deficit, boost GDP, and have a prosperous economy, energy is the key. As I am known for saying: "energy makes America great!"
Last month a crash dummy flew to 5,000 feet above ground level in a personal jet pack. The inventor, New Zealander Glenn Martin, has spent decades on the project and is ready to start selling the device for $100,000 each next year. The gasoline-driven machine can stay aloft for 30 minutes, thanks to what is, in effect, a pair of large leaf-blowers. A parachute provides partial reassurance if something should go wrong.
Had such measures been taken in the case of the research articles described above, it is unlikely that any of them would have been published in a prominent journal. If scientists want to retain society 's respect, they must insist that journal editors uphold the highest standards of accuracy.This essay appeared in the Guardian (U.K.) on March 6, 2008.
Reading "an early draft" of a federal government report has helped David Ignatius see that the global warming debate is just like the tobacco wars of the past four decades . On one side are the good guys trying to warn the world about the impending floods and droughts and the fact that "forests and agriculture may be affected by rising temperatures?
The issue here isnt just schadenfreude , although its hard not to feel a bit of that. The issue is that government is inherently less accountable, less transparent and less responsive than private industry.
According to the independently produced International Energy Agency World Energy Outlook 2012, the global energy map is being redrawn on the back of shale gas. The United States was recently facing the prospect of long-term scarcity. Now the US could pass Russia and Saudi Arabia as the world's top energy producer during the,2020s while dramatically decreasing its carbon footprintunless political forces conspire to turn back the clock.
In tonight's Tips music The Pogues invade the Spanish city of Almera for an ethanol-powered Fiesta . And maybe a bit of dental work. The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
Since energy touches every aspect of our lives, this is a subject that requires careful consideration and extended debate. We need candidates putting forward specific proposals and debating their merits on the campaign trail so voters can make an informed choice about the type of approach they want to see. That hasn?t happened yet and debating something this important requires more deliberation than we?ve had yet.
Today's segment rebuts a related scare--the claim that global warming will sicken and kill thousands of us by increasing air pollution. Click here if you want to watch Policy Peril in its entirety. Click here to watch the segment on air pollution.
Several key White House offices were involved with the Obama administrations messaging plans and other preparations as the collapse of the taxpayer-backed solar company Solyndra was imminent, newly released documents show.
We have already seen that there is ambiguity in computing the probability of events. The more complex these events the more imprecise the estimate. It is also often the case that part (2) of the risk analysis is the most difficult. The events themselves cannot be articulated, either completely or unambiguously. In simple physical systems they often can be, of course, but in complex ones like the climate or ecosystems they are not. Anything involving humans is automatically complex.
When the new EPA administrator, Gina McCarthy, in testimony before a congressional committee in mid-January was asked by Sen. Jeff Sessions (AL-R) to confirm a statement made by President Obama last year that global temperatures were increasing faster in the last 5 or 10 years than climate scientists had predicted.
The truth seems to be a simple one: Lucy likes watching Charlie Brown humiliate himself by falling flat on his back more than she enjoys watching the football fly down the field. That is, the Obama Administration's Syria calculus has underestimated how great Putin's interest is in making the United States look and sound weak and unsuccessful. He doesn't just enjoy it when John Kerry slips and falls on a banana peel that Lavrov has artfully positioned behind him; Putin is willing to run risks and even to take on significant costs simply in order to make the United States look bad.
Mr. FOIA denies these absurd allegations in his 3.0 message. "I took what I deemed the most defensible course of action, and would do it again," he said. "That's right; no conspiracy, no paid hackers, no Big Oil. The Republicans didn't plot this. USA politics is alien to me, neither am I from the U.K. There is life outside the Anglo-American sphere."
One-year ago Merkel and her government approved operating lifetime extensions of nuclear power plants in Germany, giving8 older reactors the seal approval, certifying they were safe and reliable. That, they were. Indeed German reactors and their management are among the best and safestin the world.
Equally interesting is the other phenomenon happening on the new Rimland: the so-called territorialization of the seas. The belated implementation, in the 1990s, of the 1982 Law of the Sea (UNLOS) and in particular of the 200 mile Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZ), has had over time unintended effects. Due to the existence of more than one hundred EEZs, 32 percent of the ocean is today under some sort of national jurisdiction. We are talking an area of 28 million square miles, i.e. four times the size of Russia (America's EEZ itself is two-thirds the size of the continental United States and accounts for 30 percent of the U.S. oil production).
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In May the federal appeals court invalidated the Environmental Protection Agency's standards for ozone and particulate matter on the grounds that they constituted an "unconstitutional delegation of legislative power." According to Bonner Cohen in an article in Electricity Daily (June 28, 1999) this ruling also thwarts the "administration's plans to implement the Kyoto Protocol by regulatory means." Cohen points out that "the manmade sources of ozone and particulate matter automobiles, coal-fired electric utilities, manufacturing plants, etc. are the same ones that produce manmade greenhouse gases."
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The latest WikiLeaks dump contains plenty of insider dirt on John Podesta, the founder of the Center for American Progress and the campaign manager for Hillary Clinton. Perhaps the tawdriest story to be exposed by Podesta's pilfered e-mails is the bragging by an employee of ThinkProgress, an arm of the Center for American Progress, about how they got Roger Pielke Jr.'s scalp.
comparison attribution studies. We need to be careful with the wording I think.
RICO 20 Ringleader's Implausible Denial of Intent to Silence Skeptics
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The Northern Hemisphere used to have a broken hockey stick problem. According to the National Academy OfSciencesin 1975, the hemisphere had cooled 0.7C since the 1930s, and was colder than it was at the turn of century.
The real change occurred with the 2002 Prague Summit"s decision to transform these two geographical pillars into functional pillars: Allied Command Operations (ACO) and Allied Command Transformation (ACT). The transformation of the geographical ACLANT into a functional ACT did more than marginalize the maritime dimension; it also brought the wrong transformation to the fore. NATO-ACT being twinned with the U.S. Joint Forces Command (JFCOM), the Alliance, in the name of interoperability, soon adopted all the shibboleths of the RMA: network-centric warfare, information dominance, the change from threat-based planning to capabilities-based planning which can only aggravate the idea of the Alliance as a "toolbox," and last but not least, the religion of jointness itself, whose unintended effect was to downplay the specificity and autonomy of navies when it comes to constabulary and diplomatic missions.
It was disconcerting and even unconscionable that the Chicago media ignored Heartland's Fourth International Conference on Climate Change. While there were reporters and TV stations present at the conference, they were not from Chicago media sources. The bias shown by the Chicago media is unforgiveable.
CEI Response: Again, that's five years' worth of data. Why is that more significant than 11 years of data? More pertinently, if there are two processes going on, accumulation of ice in the interior and calving of ice on the coastline, shouldn't the public hear about both?
Dennis T. Avery, a senior fellow for the Hudson Institute in Washington, D.C., is an environmental economist. He was formerly a senior analyst for the Department of State. He is co-author, with S. Fred Singer of Unstoppable Global Warming Every 1500 Years. Readers may write to him at PO Box 202 Churchville, VA 2442; email to cgfi@hughes.net or visit us at www.cgfi.org
there are some nitpicky jerks who have criticized the Jones et al. data sets ?
Yours truly: What actual evidence supports the "dangerous climate effects" assertion?
9. Who-d a-Thunk It? Mexican drug cartels see their profits tumble as America loosens its laws on weeds? Shocking, no?
An argument can in fact be made that if adjustments this large are needed to make the raw records correct then the raw records were far too heavily distorted to have been used to begin with.
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