Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
No matter what happens to the climate between now and the publication of the IPCCs 5th Assessment Report, we can be sure that the alarmism will be ratcheted up to ever more preposterous heights to keep the research funds flooding in. Everything will be bigger, faster, badder, worse than we thought, quicker than we thought etc, etc. The IPCC, and thousands of climate scientists, are too dependent on the global warming scare to let it go without a fight. And its started already. The IPCCs AR4 predictions for sea level rise were exaggerated enough, but AR5 will be worse:
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Winter? Teesdale in County Durham blanketed in snow on May 23 in what is likely to be Britains coldest spring since 1962
Obviously some scientists just arent clever enough to snap out of it.
The investigation into the alleged global warming data fraud by Virginias Attorney General may soon have a whole new angle. This comes from a previously overlooked connection between discredited tree-ring proxy researcher, Michael Mann and Yales now deceased climate professor, Barry Saltzman.
about your paper if you're nice about mine. In this it partly works, though academics often drop private
It means that the isolated measurements of the subsystems always eliminate the entanglement; and appropriate measurements of correlated properties of the two subsystems always create the entanglement. The "existence of entanglement" isn't really associated with the a priori unknown outcomes of measurements; it is associated with the type of doable meaasurement that we decide to perform.
A primary motive for writing the book was to refute the then existing regime of pervasive government controls and regulations known as Mercantilism. Adam Smith stated that if government management of the marketplace were to be repealed there would arise in its place what he called a system of natural liberty.
Said Briffa, one of their chief practitioners: "I know there is pressure to present a nice tidy story as regards "apparent unprecedented warming in a thousand years or more in the proxy data' but in reality the situation is not quite so simple. I believe that the recent warmth was probably matched about 1,000 years ago."
This year, the recent 12 Month period temperature is -4.3 F cooler than for example 1932 . And if we compare with 1955 it is ??? 3.7 F cooler.
Comment On Ocean Heat Content World Ocean Heat Content And ThermostericSea Level Change (0-2000), 1955-2010 By Levitus Et Al 2012
Canadian authorities reduced the quotas on the harp seal hunt by about 20 percent after overflights showed large numbers of seal pups were lost to thin and melting ice in the lower part of the gulf, off Prince Edward Island.
First the Obama EPA came for coal mines, coal-fired power plants, miners, workers, investors, and all who depend on reliable, affordable electricity. Then the EPA, Bureau of Land Management, Forest Service, and other agencies came after oil and gas drilling and fracking, and the workers, industries, and families that need petroleum. They're also targeting farming, ranching, airlines, and manufacturing.
Where are we going? Someone once noted that "the world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought." If that means that politicians today are becoming attracted to the ideas we had when we first started, then that's progress of a sort. But it's not enough, and CEI seeks to close that gap.
Also not against making things up is the previous president of the Royal Society, Lord May of Oxford. Last year, we caught him making things up about Martin Durkin, director of the Great Global Warming Swindle.
Elizabeth May and the Fact-challenged Fact Sheet
Why do the websites of progressive civil society organisations pay virtually no attention to climate change?
The proposals are contained in a draft document pieced together for the climate conference in Durban, South Africa. Representatives at the conference are struggling to come up with a compromise that negotiators from 194 nations can agree on.
There are really only two reasons to discuss greenhouse gas emissions (primarily carbon dioxide) in the context of dietary guidelines in the U.S., and yet the USDA and HHS did neither in their Scientific Report of the 2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee (DGAC).
Hessell notes that many New Zealand climatological stations were established about 1930, there being only a few with unchanged sites and unbroken records before that date. The clear implication is that data is just too scarce in the pre-1930 period.
The very real positive externality of inadvertent atmospheric CO2 enrichment must be considered in all studies examining the SCC; and its observationally-deduced effects must be given premier weighting over the speculative negative externalities presumed to occur in computer model projections of global warming. Until that time, little if any weight should be placed on current SCC calculations.
Yes, the winds, they are a-changingand BP decided to get out while the getting is good.
On policy, Obama focused on things that could be done quickly in Congress,
Read here . The global warming alarmists claim that an area such as the Amazon should experience greater frequency of severe droughts and floods. Does any evidence support these claims? A researcher examined the climate history of the Amazon and found no trend of severe events that would support the global warming alarmist predictions.
Meanwhile, Germany, Italy and Japan plan to phase out nuclear power, thereby increasing their use of natural gas and coal for electricity while China and India build 900 new coal-fired power plants to electrify their growing economies. All will pump tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere dwarfing any reductions the USA might achieve by closing more power plants and further shackling our economy.
The Israelis and the majority Fatah wing of the PLO now share a vital interest in the containment of Hamasthe Iran-backed radical Sunni groupwhich, during the summer of 2007, violently seized control of the Gaza Strip.
There must, then, be other factors involved in the rise of growth skepticism. The astonishing relative decline in the importance of industry in Americaand indeed across the developed worldis another. Manufacturing fell from about 30 percent of gross domestic product in 1965 to 12 percent in the most recent figures.
However, because they were designed to process heavier crude oils, refineries are limited in how much domestic sweet crude they can handle. Exports would provide an important outlet for excess crude supplies. That in turn would encourage additional exploration and production, protecting jobs, further revitalizing our economy, and multiplying royalty and tax revenues.
4. Earth Warming According to Berkely Analysis. http://jennifermarohasy.com/2011/10/earth-warming-according-to-new-berkeley-analysis/
It is impossible to present reliable future projections from a collection of climate models which generally cannot simulate observed change. As a consequence, we recommend that unless/until the collection of climate models can be demonstrated to accurately capture observed characteristics of known climate changes, policymakers should avoid basing any decisions upon projections made from them. Further, those policies which have already be established using projections from these climate models should be revisited. Assessments which suffer from the inclusion of unreliable climate model projections include those produced by the IPCC and the U.S. Global Climate Change Research Program (including their most recent National Climate Assessment). Policies which are based upon such assessments include those established by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency pertaining to the regulation of greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act.
I want every Indian citizen to know: the United States of America will not simply be cheering you on from the sidelines. We will be right there with you, shoulder to shoulder. Because we believe in the promise of India. And we believe that the future is what we make it. President Obama, Nov. 8, 2010
About which Hansen correctly noted: The U.S. has warmed during the past century, but the warming hardly exceeds year-to-year variability. Indeed, in the U.S. the warmest decade was the 1930s and the warmest year was 1934.
In fact, one billion signatures would require many billions of visits. With an ad added on that page, this modest goal itself would mean that the owner of the page would quickly become a multimillionaire. Is it this easy to become a multimillionaire? Is it enough to simply write "We people of the Earth want the comrade in the U.N. to tame the Sun, drink the oceans, and stop the rising seas"? But why would billions of people ever visit the totally useless and idiotic page?
Temperatures in Antarctica have hit a balmy -109F over the last two days, which can mean only one thing tropical vacation
The Empire BlueCross BlueShield conversion itself "violated perhaps every civics lesson in how public policy should be made," says University of California at Berkeley health-policy analyst James C. Robinson. In other states, the profits from similar conversion deals were used to endow independent charitable foundations that support scientific inquiry and underwrite health care for the indigent. By contrast, New York expropriated the proceeds of one of the most lucrative health-insurance IPOs in American history and then used the money to subsidize hospitals and underwrite worker raisesboth goals of 1199. Health-care advocates rightly questioned how boosting union workers' salaries improved public health, particularly for the poor.
Slowing economic growth has human consequences, such as fewer schools, worse health care, and lower environmental quality. That's why human and environmental well being will be highest under the richer-but-warmest scenario and lower for the poorer-but-cooler scenarios, at least through 2100, according to Indur Goklany, author of The Improving State of the World.
Why would anyone possibly imagine that the CO 2 which will be pumped into reservoirs to access that oil will remain there for very long? Will all those many, many thousands of depleted oil reservoirs where the gas will need to be sequestered in order to offer any real CCS advantage be suitable for permanent storage? Who will be responsible for constantly monitoring them all for leakage? Even if decades passed before leaking out, would pumping all that money down a hole have accomplished anything, even if that CO 2 capture and sequestration mattered one whit?
Noting that their results "provide a valid mechanism for the conclusion of Berry and Roderick (2002) that evergreen vegetation has increased across Australia over the past 200 years as a result of CO2 enrichment," they conclude that " woody thickening in Australia and probably globally can be explained by the changes in landscape GPP and soil moisture balance arising principally from the increased atmospheric CO2 concentration ."
As economists, we are inclined to take the vantage point of the benevolent dictator, that omnific individual with his hands upon all of the policy levers available to the state. When placed in such a position, the question of how to respond to global warming is answered by performing a simple comparison: does x, the cost of optimally mitigating carbon emissions, exceed y, the benefit of that carbon mitigation? Where the answer is yes, the global carbon mitigation effort remains rightfully nascent, where the answer is no, it springs up and becomes law with a just and sudden force.
The paper adds to several others invalidating the vast prior literature on the effects of "acidification" as overblown due to biased, artificial laboratory conditions that don't correctly simulate the buffering effects of a natural environment.
What this means is, if only 50% of GHG emissions are included in the global carbon pricing scheme, the cost penalty for the participants would be 250%. The 50% participation could be achieved by, for example, 100% of countries participating in the scheme but only 50% of the emissions in total from within the countries are included, or 50% of countries participate and 100% of the emissions within those countries are included in the scheme (i.e. taxed or traded).
"The U.S. Postal Service more than doubled its losses in fiscal year 2010, despite cutting billions of dollars in expenses and trimming its staff."
Altogether, technology widened the horizons of world oil, bringing on large amounts of new supplies that supported economic growth and expanded mobility around the world. Billions of barrels of oil that could not have been accessed or produced a decade earlier were now within reach. All that proved to be ???just in time?? technological progress. For the world appeared to be on a fast track in terms of economic growth???and, thus, in its need for more oil.
In a June 13 email to Gergis et al coauthors and Climate Audit antagonists Schmidt, Mann, Steig, Wahl (see documents obtained by Warwick Hughes here ), Gergis admitted that the paper was not merely on hold (whatever that means), but that they had decided to voluntarily withdraw the paper:
NATO was created as the political-military expression of the containment doctrine. While the father of the doctrine was diplomat George Kennan, the godfather of containment was geopolitician Nicholas Spykman. During World War II Spykman had challenged the centrality of the concept of the "Heartland" developed a generation earlier by Halford Mackinder (against Mahan's sea power thesis), and focused instead on what he called the "Rimland," by which he meant essentially continental countries with a maritime facade.
Environmentalist groups long have produced public service announcements for air on television. For example, most Americans have seen the so-called "Crying Indian" commercial depicting a Native American brought to tears by the sight of careless littering along a highway. The advertisement debuted on Earth Day in 1971, and it proved to be immensely effective: It is widely credited with boosting the nascent American environmentalist movement into national prominence.
The unvalidated IPCC (and CSIRO) computer climate models that project significant human-caused warming in the future are faulty, with many known inadequacies; not surprisingly, therefore, these models have proved to be incorrect when compared with real-world temperature data;
"Dragged before Congress as gas prices explode at the pump, oil executives mounted a vigorous defense of their business practices on Thursday -- pushing back against plans to eliminate tax breaks for the "big five" oil and gas companies."
I despise a vast majority of the Czech politicians and don't hold respect for them
Now, because there never was anyone hollering about peak coal, theres no such thing as unconventional coal, despite huge changes in mining technology. Coal mining has changed as much or more than drilling for oil so why isnt there unconventional coal?
All this information will feed into the Delta Plan, which will be written over the next 2.5 years by a DutchBangladeshi consortium of government departments, research organizations and engineering consultants. The Netherlands has pledged an initial 7 million (US$9.7 million) to develop the strategy.
Last night he recited part of the pledge of allegiance. Maybe he is thinking about becoming a naturalized citizen?
Restrictions on oil and natural gas production offshore, in the West, and on Alaskan lands should be lifted and encouragement given the oil and natural gas industry to start production. Professor Timothy Considine wrote in the Denver Post "Drilling on Federal Lands: How The West Could Be Won Again" that: if the output on federal lands had matched that on private property, the economic benefits would have been significant. I estimate that over the next decade, the region's seven states Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, Montana, Nevada, and Idaho would gain between $9.5 billion and $26 billion in annual gross regional product, between $2.4 billion and $5.1 billion in annual tax revenue, and between 67,000 and 208,000 regional jobs.
A few days earlier, February 20, another Daily Express headline addressed the panic the U.K. is facing: "Cheaper energy is more important than going green." The "cheaper energy" article cites "rising energy prices" that have "gone up 159 per cent since 2004" and quotes Energy Secretary Ed Davey as saying: "energy prices are now out of control."
Since 1977, air quality, technology, and regulatory theory have improved dramatically, creating new opportunities to more cost-effectively protect air quality. Investors, too, have also rediscovered the inherent value of companies that manufacture real goods and services, and the negative impact that defective regulations can have on global competitiveness.
Perhaps worse is the ACIAs proposed prescription of fixing all the ills of the purported Arctic climate trend by taking steps toward the reduction of anthropogenic greenhouse gases. In the end, that premise is obviously more of a political posture than a legitimate scientific conclusion.
Last winter had the largest sea ice extent in the last six years, the largest North American snow extent on record, and the second largest northern hemisphere snow extent on record. On one day in February, at least 49 US states had snow cover. Northern hemisphere albedo was very high last winter.
Individual organic growers might promise retailers and consumers that their products will be completely free from all non-organic "contaminants," but that is a commitment they should know is difficult to keep. Tolerances for the presence of various unwanted substances are routinely incorporated into the standards for organic and other foods. Because farming takes place out-of-doors and in dirt, and products must be stored, the presence of actual contaminants like insect parts, rodent hairs and feces, and toxic molds is a fact of life, so federal safety regulations establish maximum limits for these things. The same rationale was at play when the USDA and representatives from the organic food industry jointly developed the standards for organic production.
Look for the satellite data to be adjusted to bring it into compliance with the fully fraudulent surface temperatures. The Guardian is now workingtodiscredit UAH, so it seems likely that RSS will soon be making big changes to match the needs of the climate mafia. Bookmark this post.
Something else also stands out in the 3 regions where current temperatures are warmest, my Figure 2. Only one of the reconstructions extends back the full 2000 years. Would Asia and Australasia have warmer temperatures than those weve experienced recently if their reconstructions could be extended farther back in time? Dunno.
"I believe low energy prices may complicate the transformation, to be very frank," Fatih Birol, the executive director of the International Energy Agency, told reporters in Brussels Thursday, "and this is a very important issue for countries to note; all the strong renewables and energy efficiency policies therefore may be undermined with the low fossil fuel prices."
Wind power line proposal irks some Midwest farmers
Examples abound. Federal fuel economy mandates force auto makers to produce smaller, lighter, less crash-resistant cars, causing thousands of highway deaths per year.1 FDA regulations delay the availability of life-saving therapies, killing tens of thousands over the past two decades.2 Banning DDT revived malaria epidemics in the developing world, afflicting 2.5 million people in Sri Lanka alone.3 Furthermore, a large body of literature documents that regulation can kill just by misdirecting resources and squandering wealth. Precautionists ignore the obvious connection between livelihoods, living standards, and lives as if jobs and income were not the chief safety nets for most of the world s people. Even in a relatively wealthy country like the United States, every $5 million to $10 million drop in economic output is associated with an additional statistical death.4
But for politicians, the worse the mess, the better. And Hurricane Katrina was a blessinga consecrated opportunity to make advocates of small government look small, to enlarge political largess with a public dole of private goods, and to expand the scope of politics to include everything.
Maybe the Blowout Prevention Act is simply a product of sloppy drafting. But maybe not.As written, the bill wouldrevive and expandthefederalban on offshore drilling.Indeed, it wouldcripple U.S. domestic petroleum production.Do the sponsors not know that banning offshore drilling wouldincreaseconsumers?? pain at the pump, destroy high-paying American jobs, and make the United States more dependent onOPEC oil? Or do they just not care?
2. Panama - Agreement Regarding a Debt-for-Nature Swap
Beyond all those contextual questions lies another reality. A presidency is
The argument that it's a different rumor is that he claims that the bottom-Higgs associated production would be linked with a 150 GeV Higgs boson - which would have to be be the heavier one, "H", in SUSY, not the lighter one, "h", so it couldn't coincide with his "light Higgs" observation.
The observed response equates to an approximate 480% increase in calcification rate in response to a 9C increase in water temperature or to a 160% increase in calcification rate in response to a 3C increase in temperature, the latter of which temperature increases is somewhere in the low to midrange of global warming that climate alarmists claim will result from a 300 ppm increase in the air's CO 2 concentration.?? As noted in our Editorial of 26 Jan 2005 , this positive effect of rising temperature far outweighs the negative effect of rising CO 2 concentrations on calcification in corals. Reviewed 9 February 2005
Glacier Bay was first surveyed in detail in 1794 by a team from the H.M.S. Discovery, captained by George Vancouver. At the time the survey produced showed a mere indentation in the shoreline. That massive glacier was more than 4,000 feet thick in places, up to 20 miles wide, and extended more than 100 miles to the St. Elias mountain range.
The Great Barrier Reef is being damaged by global warming in fact, there is no trend in the sea surface temperature of the reef over the last 40 years.
There are, of course, other weather elements that are helping Obama, such as his attentive efforts to help the victims of Sandy and his apparent turning of New Jersey Governor Christie into a implicit supporter. But these fade compared to the nationwide effects of benign weather that are predicted by our modeling systems.
EPA's rule will force poor and minority families to choose between buying food, putting gas in the car, going to the doctor, buying medicines, giving to their church, saving for retirement, or making mortgage, rent and car payments. Small businesses will have to find thousands more just to keep the heat, lights and air conditioning on, without laying people off or closing their doors. Factories, malls, school districts, hospitals and cities will have to pay millions more for energy.
Read here and here . The impressive success of the harmonic astronomical climate model (left chart) is in the realm of spectacular when compared to the robust, abysmal performance of the IPCC's (middle chart) and NASA's (right chart) traditional CO2-based climate models. The failure of the CO2-centric models is due in large part to their inability to reproduce the known decadal and multi-decadal oscillations that are part and parcel to the world's climate.
As above a 5,000ppm change in weight of atmosphere equates to 0.1C, so the 100ppm change in CO2 results in an order of magnitude smaller change in temperature. It isnt even worth me calculating as the answer is clearly no.
The interesting thing is that the Earth is actually -18 degrees C, as observed from outer space. Given the total energy input from the Sun, the Earth does have the global average temperature of -18 degrees C that is predicted when re-emitting that same energy from the Earth. The global average temperature is -18 degrees C when observed from outer space .