Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
Whatever happens to the Trump candidacy, it now seems clear that Jacksonian America is rousing itself to fight for its identity, its culture and its primacy in a country that it believes it should own. Its cultural values have been traduced, its economic interests disregarded, and its future as the center of gravity of American political life is under attack. Overseas, it sees traditional rivals like Russia, China, North Korea and Iran making headway against a President that it distrusts; more troubling still, in ISIS and jihadi terror it sees the rapid spread of a movement aiming at the mass murder of Americans. Jacksonian America has lost all confidence in the will or the ability of the political establishment to fight the threats it sees abroad and at home. It wants what it has always wanted: to take its future into its own hands.
Its frustrating that a state-funded academic does not take responsibility for his statements. Unfortunately, this sort of recklessness seems to have increased rather than decreased following the inept Muir Russell.
Both of our distinguished German colleagues left the meeting with their heads bowed low and their shoulders stooped. Their distress and concern for the future of Europe and the world was evident.
So why the hell would someone switch from the minimal, effective theory to the contrived one one which needs several shooters and perhaps even some synchronization of their shooting? A contrived hypothesis that is not only less plausible a priori but one that also seems to almost directly contradict the empirical data about the shots and their trajectories? I think that the stupidity is the only conceivable explanation.
If you are below 50 and in the top 40% of earners, do NOT expect to get
Climate alarmist James Hansen has long predicted the catastrophic tipping point of global temperatures from human CO2 emissions. His predictions include the seas will soon be boiling and a significant increase of extreme weather events, due to the excessive warming of the tropical atmosphere.
Unless we are vigilant, data sets will evolve and data that have been so painstakingly collected and saved will be distorted and twisted beyond all usefulness . Our care in using data should be a force analogous to natural selection, keeping data sets fit for the purposes intended. If we do not take care, the gold standards of climatology may in time turn to lead.
Therefore, just as cold weather is known to lead to the deaths of far more people than is hot weather around the world (see Health Effects (Temperature - Hot vs. Cold Weather) in our Subject Index), and in light of the fact that daily minimum temperatures have historically risen considerably more than have daily maximum temperatures during periods of global warming (see Temperature (Diurnal Range) in our Subject Index), it can be appreciated that both humans and corals -- together with their symbionts -- may well have little to fear if temperatures begin to rise again.
The scientists investigated the phase relation (leads/lags) between atmospheric carbon dioxide and global temperaturesusing standard data series for the period January 1980 to December 2011.They found that changes in global atmospheric CO2 follow 1112 months behind changes in global sea surface temperature and 9.510 months behind changes in global air surface temperature. The findings conflict with the consensus view concerning the greenhouse gas theory that says the opposite should happen with temperatures supposedly being driven by any rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2 levels are up 40 percent in recent decades).
Reconstruction of the Palmer Drought Severity Index shows there is nothing unusual, unnatural, or unprecedented with regard to 20th century drought
If you talk to the greenhouse mafia about these observations, they provide some answers, but those are not real. There is no proper support for the claim that the greenhouse effect should already be visible. It is sometimes stated that the Southern Hemisphere is warming. But there are so few observational sites over there that it is very difficult to draw any definitive conclusions about the temperature in the Southern Hemisphere.
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During the period 1976 to 1990, when global temperatures rose back to the 1940 level, there were 8 years of moderate-to-severe drought.
Only in the modern media can a 6 billion barrel decrease get a ton of coverage while a massive 35-fold increase of 175 billion barrels gets only an ounce. Perhaps that proves really good news is absolutely no news at all.
As always, with intellectuals when they analyze their failure, its impossible for them to have been defeated by better arguments and stronger evidence. Mannes synopsis:
Changes in global sea level is an issue of much controversy. In the Kattegatt Sea, the glacial isostatic component factor is well established and the axis of tilting has remained stable for the last 8,000 years. At the point of zero regional crustal movements, there are three tide gauges indicating a present rise in sea level of 0.8 to 0.9 mm/yr for the last 125 years. This value provides a firm record of the regional eustatic rise in sea level in this part of the globe.
A particularly ingenious way by which almost any adaptive response to any type of environmental stress may be enhanced in the face of the occurrence of that stress would be to replace the zooxanthellae expelled by the coral host during a stress-induced bleaching episode by one or more varieties of zooxanthellae that are more tolerant of the stress that caused the bleaching.
Coal prices are low, he said, adding that coal is about one-third of the price of LNG in Asia and about half of the gas price in Europe.
The result is clear, according to moderate progressives. Once again, the Democratic party has been seduced by the siren song of immediate and comprehensive public action without regard to cost or public opinion. The cure for this disease is clear: a return to the only course of political action that has worked for Democrats since 1966, Clintonian incrementalism.
In the words of the researchers, "net primary productivity in this stand has been significantly higher in CO 2 -enriched plots, and the response has been sustained through time, thereby meeting one of the criteria for the development of PNL." However , as they report, " none of the measured responses of plant N dynamics in this ecosystem indicated the occurrence of PNL." What it means
F. K. Weyerhaeuser Fellow Steven F. Hayward
The most telling point is that after spending $30 billion on pure science research no one is able to point to a single piece of empirical evidence that man-made carbon dioxide has a significant effect on the global climate.
political to the extent that the issues are controversial either in domestic
I see everything as a miracle. Everybreath, every leaf, every sip of wine. All of our illusions of being in control are arrogant nonsense.
There was another very important volcanic eruption in the 1980s El Chichon in 1982 whose aerosols actually reduced solar irradiance by an even greater extent than Pinatubo .
find the 60 votes needed in the Senate. Not half bad.
The phrase "the fortune at the bottom of the pyramid" was coined by the late C.K. Prahalad, building on the work of Nobel laureate Amartya Sen. In his groundbreaking 1999 work, Development as Freedom, Sen pointed out that one of the most important aspects of development is freedom of opportunity, a vital part of which is access to capital and credit. Capital and credit, however, appear nowhere in the draft UN goals.
Quoting the six scientists, "after 7 weeks, plants grown under an elevated CO 2 concentration showed an increase of 77% in photosynthesis, 56% in tillering, 104% in leaf area, 92% in height and 91% in total biomass." In addition, they say that the CO 2 -enriched plants "also had a lower stomatal conductance (-40%) and higher water use efficiency (62%)."
At the same time crop yields are going up by 10, 15, 20 percent per decade due to technological change,' he continued. 'So, it's not the case that climate change will cause life-threatening famine; instead, climate change will mean that crop yields will go up more slowly.'
People registered to vote out of karaoke bars, lingerie stores, dance lounges, galleries, etc... The deadline for revising the list of Electors has now passed, and these irregular voters will remain on the list. In some cases, they have already voted in the advance polls and some of these irregular voters may have voted in previous elections, and may have had an impact on the results in the riding of Edmonton Centre.
The proliferation of wind turbines over the past few years has not, and will not, result in statistically significant reductions in global carbon dioxide emissions. That is not an opinion. It is simple math.
The phrase 97 percent of the worlds climate scientists sounds very dramatic and overwhelming, but the truth is somewhat different. According to the figures presented in the paper, 90% of the scientists were from the US, including federal and state bodies, 6% from Canada and 4% from 21 countries around the world.
Today we find ourselves deep into a post-ice age interglacial warm period. During the last ice age the sea level was 120 m lower than todays level. During the last interglacial, the Eem interglacial of 126,000 to 115,000 years before present, sea level was up to 9 m higher than today without any help from man. This has been shown by a number of studies (Dutton & Lambeck 2012 in Science , Muhs et al. 2012 in Quaternary Research , OLeary et al. 2013 in Nature Geoscience ).
That stacks the deck the same way the "public comment" process is tilted in favor of ultra-rich Big Green agitators who have the funding and organization to generate thousands or millions of comments.
In the video, DiCaprio attributes global warming to mankind's "destructive addiction" to oil. He says "big corporations" and politicians gained too much money and power "on our addiction," making them "dangerously resistant to change."
There is no way that anyone could possibly say that most are declining. In fact, over 80% are no change or improving . ABC, please explain.
Afraid that a new plan by the U.S. Forest Service will wreak economic havoc on timber-dependent rural communities, lawmakers from both political parties are expressing their displeasure with the Obama administration initiative.
The Falmouth MRCC received a distress message via satellite from a Russian flagged vessel, MV Akademik Shokalskiy, with 74 people about 7.20am (AEDT).
ICSC Chief Science Advisor Professor Bob Carter of James Cook University in Australia adds, ?Whether it?s warming or cooling is entirely a function of the length of the piece of climate string you choose to cut off.?
a live webcast with cloud and climate expert: David Randall,director of the Center for Multiscale Modeling of Atmospheric Processes and a professorof atmospheric science at Colorado State University;
The blue line totally ignores any of our other understandings about the changing climate, including the changing intensity of the sun. It is conveniently exactly what is necessary to make the pink line match history. In fact, against all evidence, note the blue band falls over the century. This is because the models were pushing the temperature up faster than we have seen it rise historically, so the modelers needed a negative plug to make the numbers look nice.
However, an analysis of some of the calamities reported in doom and gloom media accounts (e.g., table 1) shows someat times, severedisconnect with actual observations. For instance, there is no evidence that ocean acidification has killed jellyfish predators, nor that jellyfish are taking over the ocean, and predictions that the killer algae, Caulerpa taxifolia, was going to devastate the Mediterranean ecosystem have not been realized, despite claims to the contrary from the media (table 1). It may be, therefore, that some of the calamities composing the syndrome of collapse of coastal ecosystems may not be as severe as is portrayed in some accounts.
Using the longer term CET record, the last five years temperature averages 10.0C, and compares with 9.85C for the decade 1730-39, an even less significant increase.
Volkswagen has plans to become the world's #1 carmaker by 2018 or so. Can it be achieved? Lots of numbers were promising. But June 2015 has shown a 8.6% year-on-year drop in sales which is worrisome. One brand at least managed to stay above zero (at least a month earlier), koda. Its annual production is safely above 1 million cars and the growth rate remains substantial. In H1, it produced 544,300 cars, a year-on-year increase by 4.2%.
Abraham also mentions a paper he found that talks about extinctions that are predicted as a result of "global warming". But though he may perhaps not have understood this, for many of his political stamp do not prediction is not the same thing as evidence. The fact is that most of the predictions of the climate-extremists and their overworked X-Box 360s and Playstation Vs have proven to be spectacular exaggerations.
Then 2009 rolled around, and I was no closer to a definitive answer in my own mind about the anthropogenic global warming exercise than when I started. I remembered hearing on the news that the average daytime temperature of Mars was rising. Fine. I set off in search of information on the suns radiance and found a whole complete new can of worms to deal with. The sun guys had gobs and gobs of published data showing a correlation between sunspots and atmospheric temperatures on planet Earth.
The drugs in question are Welchol (cholesterol-lowering); and Benicar, Azor, and Tribenzor (antihypertensives).
Electricity from New Wind Three Times More Costly than Existing Coal
And while global warming alarmists continue to say 2010 or the U.S. summer of 2012 was the hottest on record, actual data reveal that there is only a few hundredths of a degree Fahrenheit difference between these and other alleged hottest years, such as 2005. The 1930s still reign supreme as the hottest in American history.
Hackers broke into thousands of emails and documents from the Climate Research Unit at East Anglia University last week and uncovered the global warming conspiracy.
Margaret Wente pekar p flera riktiga miljproblem som hamnat helt i skuggan av CO2. Agendan att avveckla fossilbrnslen har istllet varit hgsta prioritet.
Building and maintaining the climate observation network and data management system needed to generate the high quality data required to provide the empirical insights to the climate system and its changes. This can lead to improved theoretical understanding and an ability to build and test climate models; and
Keen observers will have noticed that one of John Kerry's key campaigning points recently has been the current high price of gasoline. According to a study by the American Council for Capital Formation in 2000, the Kyoto Protocol would add 71 cents to the price of each gallon.
Arctic melting is a good thing . The alternative would be a real problem.
The 1880s was also the second busiest decade for US hurricane strikes (22 hurricanes, five major hurricanes) topped only by the 1940s (24 hurricanes, 10 major hurricanes) yet both decades were supposedly very cool, with plummeting temperatures.
As the Soviets found out, very few people want to "work hard" unless they are rewarded. Here comes capitalism! You are rewarded in proportion to how much you provide to others. And the age of abundance requires access to affordable, abundant energy.
I have worked with and respect Sam Karnick, a fine and intelligent fellow who speaks for our side eloquently.
While that lat/lon puts the station in the parking lot, I note that typically most GPS readings in NCDC??s metadata are good to only about 100 feet. And sure enough, right where I suspected it was, was the telltale shadow of the MMTS shelter. Some annotation was added to the Google Earth image to help you visualize what I know from years of experience doing aerial station surveys.
The EPA rules will: 1) more than double the cost of natural gas and electricity, adding over $1 trillion to family and business energy bills; 2) require average families to pay $1,225 more in inflation-adjusted dollars for power and gas in 2030 than in 2012; 3) destroy millions of jobs in companies and industries that can no longer compete, here or internationally; and 4) significantly reduce U.S. economic growth every year for the next two decades, causing more than $2.3 trillion in total lost gross domestic product.
Think I am exaggerating? H ere are the facts of the case:
The potential demise of the scheme comes amid growing fears among renewable power enthusiasts that David Cameron and George Osborne want to scale back the green agenda on the grounds that low-carbon energy schemes such as CCS and offshore wind cost too much at a time of austerity. Osborne told the Conservative party conference in Manchester that if he had his way the UK would cut carbon emissions no slower but also no faster than our fellow countries in Europe.
By Staff Writers, NCPA, Aug 5, 2015
Scary warnings from climatologists. Take heed. Take action quickly before it is too late.
Doug Bandow is the Bastiat scholar in free enterprise at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. He is also a former special assistant to President Ronald Reagan. This article is adapted from a forthcoming study for the Institute for Policy Innovation. He can be reached at ChessSet@aol.com.
For this heresy against the renewable energy boondoggle, he is being attacked by the green Taliban, which is campaigning to prevent him joining the University of Western Australia. As the blogger Andrew Montford put it : Bjrn Lomborg argues that we should focus our spending on immediate problems, such as ensuring Africans have access to clean water. For this he is vilified, attacked and has his livelihood threatened. His critics wish to see money spent on climate change mitigation measures instead. A tragedy for the Africans.
By Kevin D. Dayaratna, Ph.D., David W. Kreutzer, Ph.D. and Nicolas Loris
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What's missing from the PBS response is an outright explanation for its lack of skeptic scientist guests, and Ombudsman Getler's "danger of establishing a false equivalence" observation was a head-snapper for me because it mimics Society of Environmental Journalists board director Robert McClure's opinion in his October 16th reply to me at his web page here (comment #7).
As in our prior analyses, we use the same techniques employing a climate model simulator to derive global temperature (and sea level) projections from the greenhouse gas emissions scenarios. We use the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change?s (IPCC) ?business-as-usual? scenario (A1B) as the baseline, and then modify it to take into account the Kerry-Lieberman emissions targets for the U.S.
No, we cant say any single weather event was caused by climate change. But its getting to the point where some of the most esteemed climate scientists say that it would be irresponsible not to mention climate change in the context of extreme weather events (thats NCARs Kenneth Trenbeth). And its no different with the record flooding thats currently swamping regions along the Mississippi River.
Dr. James Hansen is the Director of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies. Dr. Hansen is right up there with Al Gore, Michael Mann and the Climategate CRU on the list of people helping the UN to swindle the United States and other western democracies out of trillions of dollars through his promotion of the Anthropogenic Global Warming fraud.
1. When compared with pre-1800s levels do you think that mean global temperatures have generally risen, fallen, or remained relatively constant?
By Alan Carlin, Carlin Economics and Science, Aug 12, 2015
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The government of South Africa is casting a reformist eye to country's place names . They are too white.
The 5-year (60-month) running mean global temperature hints at a slowdown in the global warming rate during the past few years.
The most obvious reason why big oil and gas companies would support a huge new tax on their own products is that it would kill coal first.
The editorial concludes, "Imagine if the US had had a decade of a 50-cent or higher add-on to the gas tax. Fewer people would have bought SUVs. Roads would be less crowded. Suburban sprawl would be slower. Air pollution would be less . In all, the US would be further along in moving away from an oil-based economy, which it needs to do quickly. So go ahead and wince once at the high oil prices. But then think twice about how the collective sacrifice of a higher gas tax could bring about a shift from oil by choice and foresight, rather than by last-minute necessity."
If you believe that surface temperature depends upon trace gas composition via back radiation it would be best to put that idea aside while you read this paper. Observation of the manner in which the climate at the surface of the Earth changes over time suggests that the effect of down-welling radiation is swamped by the mechanism described here. Historically the globe has warmed and cooled hemispheric-ally rather than monolithic-ally, a point that is lost on those who insist on a single global metric for temperature. The process is hemispheric-ally distinctive because it is driven at the poles. The atmosphere at the two poles is distinctively different, largely due to the very different distribution of land and sea between the hemispheres. It is the difference in the atmosphere between the poles that is important for the evolution of climate.
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Under the rules of the system, airlines must hand over enough CO2 allowances by April 30, 2013, to match their verified CO2 emissions in 2012.
The draft report, which strings together proposals from various working groups, quickly raised alarm among climate change skeptics.
I wrote about JFK 5 days ago but now I want to avoid particle physics.
While FOE tries to scare people with references to "extreme weather disasters," Idso and Taylor pointed to the fact that "Global hurricane frequency is undergoing a long-term decline, with global hurricane and tropical storm activity at record lows during the past several years The United States is benefitting from the longest period in recorded history without a major hurricane strike. Tornado activity is in long-term decline, with major tornado strikes (F3 or higher) showing a remarkable decline in recent decades."
Climate models appear to be very good at predicting the past, yet they havent predicted the latest bout of cooling, so why are we still spending so much on them. There was the lack of salt for the roads this winter and an expectation of warm winters.
Using some legerdemain known only to Government scientists, NIWA claims that the 11SS begins in 1931. The 7SS should begin at the same time.
Pajamas Medias PJTV has a new 26 minute video interview with Lord Christopher Monckton . Al Gore was discussed, of course, and specifically mentioned was Al Gores doubling down on man-made climate change via his blizzard of lies op-ed he wrote for the compliant New York Times. However, in my opinion the doubling down analogy is a weak one. Doubling down is a strategy that is used in blackjack, and is done when playing from a positon of strength rather than weakness, e.g. when a player is dealt a ten or an eleven, or when the dealer is showing a very weak hand to your own nine:
Had the Justices known what the ANPR and other analyses have brought to light about the regulatory ramifications of establishing greenhouse gas emission standards under 202, they might well have decided Mass. v. EPA differently. Few if any of the Justices would have openly and directly ordered EPA to undertake the kinds of extreme measures to which an endangerment finding logically leads.
Fred Pearce of New Scientist and the Guardian said that the Committee avoided examining more complex charges .