Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
Which technologies today are about to hit the brick wall of diminishing returns, and which are poised for sudden price collapses?
"It's the green movement's new Jim Crow law," Deneen Borelli, outreach director at FreedomWorks, told The Daily Caller News Foundation in 2014.
Do new data provide evidence for ice sheet slow death or ice sheet slow growth? An Ohio State University researcher reports that the most recent data show that thinning rates are slowing at several sites just east of the ice sheet divide, and that the elevation at the divide continues to increase?? Read More
Before the DOE report came out, Dow, guided by its public relations team, had characterized itself as "in the middle" on this issue. All last year, the company had repeatedly declared itself a "proponent of fair and free trade," stating that it "opposes policies that arbitrarily limit reasonable experts of natural gas to free-trade agreement countries or that provide for unlimited global exports." As George Blitz, vice president of energy and climate change and a corporate vice president, claimed as late as October, it just wanted a balanced public policy.
As the BBC put it (May 13), "The blockbuster climate disaster movie The Day After Tomorrow contains badly flawed science and ignores the laws of physics, leading UK scientists believe." It seems somewhat odd for the chief scientific adviser to praise the something that "ignores the laws of physics" for its political qualities. King, a professor of chemistry at Cambridge, has no expertise in climate science.
CEI: What's the idea behind the Club for Growth?
Inhofe Honored For Protecting U.S. Taxpayers from Devastating Climate Tax
Donald Trump said, "A lot of people in my industry think asbestos is the greatest fireproofing material ever made." Fire testing organizations such as the National Fire Protection Association have consistently given asbestos materials a zero flame-spread rating, which means it has no ability to spread flame under any circumstances. Before asbestos was widely used, it was not uncommon for a fire in a school or theater to kill, dozens, and sometimes hundreds of people. After asbestos, these types of fires disappeared overnight. Fred Astaire sang the praises of asbestos in the classic 1930s song, "I won't dance." And my book documents how lack of asbestos added to the tragedies of the World Trade Center attacks in 2001 and the fire at The Station nightclub in Rhode Island in 2003
Heres an example of his calculations: At Cougar Peak, a 1925 record documented the lowest elevation that pikas had inhabited was 2416 meters . Beevers more recent surveys detected pikas living even lower on Cougar Peak at 2073 meters in the late 1990s, and at 2222 metes in followup surveys in 2003. Despite the fact that recent observations were all lower than 1925 by about 200 meters, Beever ignored the historical record. He simply subtracted the 1990s elevation from the 2003 elevation, to report climate had pushed pikas 149 meters higher. Furthermore, the Cougar Peak site was one of the sites Beever had initially reported as extinct. Follow-up surveys found a robust population.
So we're also exposed to the standard anti-quantum propaganda that entanglement is a borderline crime and it shouldn't happen unless and the rest of the sentence is their "contribution" you have some powerful constructors inside kettles to heat water and to beat other constructors, or whatever. It's just batit crazy.
9. "Surely no failure of American intelligence," wrote Angelo Codevilla, a former senior staff member of the Senate Intelligence Committee during the 1970s, "compares in seriousness to this NIE's misprision of the size, scope, and purpose of Soviet strategic forces between 1965 and 1979." From Angelo Codevilla, Informing Statecraft: Intelligence for a New Century (New York: Free Press, 1992), 223.
Where the foxes caper unmolested, the government packs your school lunch, and multiculturalism means more pavilions at Jihadifest;
UPDATE: Robert Manne replies at #29. See my reply to that. Jo
"DOE is to be congratulated for abiding by the law despite strong pressure from special interests to set up a credit program, which would allow them to profit from higher energy costs at the expense of consumers. Awarding Kyoto credits would shift the political balance of power in favor of policies like the McCain-Lieberman Climate Stewardship Act," said CEI Senior Fellow Marlo Lewis.
Off the coast of the southern island of Japan, we have a 6.6 quake. Some news shows are reporting this as a 6.9 but Ill go with USGS.
Flashback 2008: "Why Winter No Longer Exists' "Winter has gone for ever Climate change has wiped out the season of traditionally long, hard frosts'
Its also instructive to witness the hostility that Svensmark receives from The Cause. And they accuse the sceptics of being anti-science?
Well at least the models were right about the sea ice loss in the Northern Hemisphere. Too bad for the modelers that our planet also has a Southern Hemsiphere.
Less has gone to those at the bottom. Those in the middle have seen their health insurance canceled by Obamacare and sit waiting for healthcare.gov to function.
Will Hutton, a stockbroker turned left-wing talking head, reviews the climate debate in the aftermath of the Rio conference. It's mostly fairly ill-informed:
Did you know? nder the 2011 budget, every hour of every day, the federal government spends $188 million it doesnt have, $130 million of which is borrowed from itself. A little more on the utterly ignored number one threat to the Canadian economy.
So heres the Harvard blather about food production creating net bad effects:
Lewis and Curry arrive at their lower equilibrium climate sensitivity estimate by using updated compilations of the earths observed temperature change, oceanic heat uptake, and the magnitude of human emissions, some of which should cause warming (e.g., greenhouse gases), while the others should cool (e.g., sulfate aerosols). They try to factor out natural variability. By comparing values of these parameters from the mid-19 century to now, they can estimate how much the earth warmed in association with human greenhouse gas emissions.
But no matter how cold it gets, global-warming adherents insist its all part and parcel of what they believe to be abnormal and soon-to-be-catastrophic warming of the planets surface due to mans reckless introduction of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.
And don't forget the Medieval Warm Period, Little Ice Age, and the five frigid epochs that buried North America, Europe and Asia under glaciers a mile thick. Or the 4,000-year-old trees that recently emerged as modern glaciers melted back proving that a forest grew in the now icy Alps just four millennia ago.
Over the last 30 years, the warming rate has been remarkably constantabout 0.17 degrees Celsius per decade. And for 25 years before that, the world was actually cooling!
We've been hearing a lot of criticism of Barack Obama in recent days from
Green energy also uses more land and materials than conventional fossil fuels, which the authors note makes it questionable whether wind and solar are really "green" at all. For instance, Moore and White point out an average wind farm uses 460 metric tons of steel and 870 metric tons of concrete per megawatt produced, whereas a natural gas plant requires only three metric tons of steel and 27 cubic meters of concrete per megawatt.
The logic of this announcement is crazy the US government is already spending billions of taxpayer dollars propping up the struggling car manufacturers in the US, and yet in the name of climate change, Obama kicks them again hard while theyre down
The one-sided reporting and blind faith in climate change has infected politicians who are incapable of balancing the federal budget. So why put faith in them or the meteorologists who track with them that they can do anything other than talk about the weather?
In another email exhange, Mr. Mann wrote to Mr. Jones: "This was the danger of always criticizing the skeptics for not publishing in the "peer-reviewed literature.' Obviously, they found a solution to thattake over a journal! So what do we do about this? I think we have to stop considering "Climate Research' as a legitimate peer-reviewed journal. Perhaps we should encourage our colleagues in the climate research community to no longer submit to, or cite papers in, this journal."
The failure of the models to simulate the polar amplified warming should come as no surprise to regular visitors. We showed in the post here last year that the models do not show the polar-amplified warming in the Arctic during the recent warming period, or the polar-amplified cooling in the Arctic during the cooling period from the early-1940s to the late-1970s.
The question of post-accord security for Israelis dominates every discussion of a deal with the Palestinians. The Obama-Bush transition does not appear to have produced any significant glitches in the critical area of permanent security arrangements. First outlined by Condoleezza Rice and later fleshed out by retired General James Jones, Obama's recently departed national security adviser, all key points of the plan have been presented to both sides without any deal breakers becoming apparent. Under this plan, Palestine would become a "demilitarized state with a strong police force." As summarized by Abed Rabbo, "An international force would be deployed on the borders and inside the Palestinian state. No Israeli presence of any kind would be permitted inside the Palestinian state. Israel would be able to nominate members or veto the proposals of others. A member of the international force could not be removed without the agreement of Israel, the United States, and Palestine."
The above graph shows how drastically the IPCC was compelled to reduce its near-term warming projections between the spaghetti-graph shown and the sharply downward-revised prediction zone between the two green arrows. The red arrows show where the medium-term predictions were in 1990. The observed trend, in black, is trailing along at the very bottom of the prediction zone.
?The scale and scope of the World Bank Group?s support to our country clients on climate change issues has grown rapidly, as has our engagement in the international dialogue,? said Mr. Zoellick. ?Given the importance of this issue, we decided we needed a high-level ?point person? on climate change. Andrew brings a deep knowledge of the technical, financial and political aspects of climate change to this important new role.?
Leading climate scientist: "democratic process isn't working'
What Congress, and Everybody Else, Should Know About Genetically Modified Crops
It is important to understand why measures to attempt to mitigate CO2 emissions are always going to be unaffordable. First, as the California example demonstrates, regional mitigation measures do not noticeably change the global CO2 concentration. Therefore manmade radiative forcing is scarcely altered.
In the updated edition of the Limits to Growth, the authors seem to climb down from the certainty of the original report, complaining that the media misunderstood or misinterpreted their findings. More than once in the new edition, the authors insist that "we are not predicting that a particular future will take place. . . . We do not believe that available data and theories will ever permit accurate predictions of what will happen to the world over the coming century." Two pages later this reticence is thrown out the window. After the reviewing in two short paragraphs the trajectory of the dot.com bubble of the 1990s, the authors conclude: "Sadly, we believe the world will experience overshoot and collapse in global resource use and emissions much the same as was the dot.com bubblethough on a much larger time scale."
The Medieval Warm Period (MWP) contradicted their claim that the 20th century was the warmest ever.
I first posted this five-part video series in November, 2008 because I felt that Svensmark was truly on to something very important in climate research. As the debate over Svensmarks research intensified, I posted it again in July, 2009 for the same reason. Recently, Svensmarks research was validated in the CERN experiment which makes this video series more relevant than ever, and casts further doubt on Al Gores theory of castastrophic man-made climate change. So, for the third time, I present this five-part video series just as I did back in 2008:
Solar activity is going into a decline as well. We dont yet know if this decline will be to a Dalton Minimum-like level or a Maunder Minimum level. The model projection into the future does not contain ENSO or volcanic data as that data cannot be predicted. But it will get cooler for the next thirty years. The AMO will turn positive some time in mid-century, and solar output may not decline as much as indicated, so another full-blown ice age is not beginning, but a Little Ice Age may be starting. See here for further projections into the future based on the deVries 230-year cycle and the 1000-year Suess cycle.
after having to ask a second time. This gorgeous little juxtaposition of tales comes from a new
Experts like Katherine Hayhoe have been hysterically warning about drought in the southwest, based on their mindless superstitions about CO2. Over the past two years, the southwest and Rocky Mountain states have been much wetter than normal.
Bear in mind that under established legal interpretation ,EPA is forbidden to take compliance costs and economic impacts into account when settingNAAQS. In short,applying the NAAQS program toCO 2 could turn the CAA into the equivalent of an economic suicide pact.
The sun is causing the cooling thats going on. The sun reached a peak of activity around 2000 and has been declining ever since, said Ball, who noted that the cooling trend will continue for years to come.
And 2012? Their forecast of 0.48C was well above the actual temperature of 0.40C (based on HADCRUT3 , which was in operation when they made their prediction).
There are theories see e.g. the Milankovitch cycle but they have no quantitative predictive value and the actual causal mechanism is far from clear. So we do not know what the temperature outside should be, with and/or without CO 2. We do know historically that the Little Ice Age that ended around 200 years ago was tied for the coldest century long stretch of the entire Holocene that is, the coldest for the last 11,000 or so years (where it might surprise you to learn that the Holocene Optimum was between 1.5 and 2 C warmer than it is today, without CO 2).
"House Republicans moved today to prevent controversial Net neutrality regulations from taking effect, a move that is likely to invite an eventual confrontation with President Obama. "
seasonal-mean temperature and rainfall. Estimates of associated changes in
The issue of drought post 2000 ??? often greatly exaggerated and distorted ??? usually linked with arm-waving ???climate change?? doomsterism ??? misleading publicity on rainfall ??? all have been skilfully brought into play by the proponents of expensive water.
"The one that brought the hot temperatures to the US lasted over a week, while the current one affecting Pakistan and Russia has been persisting for already around eight days and could last for a few more days."
The EPA statement is grossly misleading. There has been no warming in Alaska since 1978, and a sharp decrease in temperatures over the last five years.
If this network of division of labor exists and operates within a system of natural liberty, each man will soon find that it is in his own self-interest to apply his own activities in ways that serve and improve the conditions of his fellow human beings as the surest means of attaining his own desired goals and ends.
The lesson for climate change is obvious: Innovation is the key to moving from dirtier fuels to cleaner ones. Some environmentalists despair that this means there's nothing governments can do on climate. But the truth is that the federal government helped create the fracking revolution. Forty years of Department of Energy funding and research and development, as well as favorable tax policies (such as the depletion allowance and the deduction for intangible drilling costs) helped set the stage.
But the Global Warmingists seem more intent on making others sacrifice than in making big, painful changes in their own lives (yes, Al Gore, I?m talking to you).
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Dr. Ryan Maue??s ACE plot also shows a low year. He adds: ???The agency should have stopped when they were ahead and not mentioned global warming during a historically quiet Typhoon season. Their explanation must have been lost in the translation because almost everyone has noticed that there has been a rapidly developing and intense La Nina during the summer and fall of 2010. Put very simply, the previous historically quiet Typhoon seasons in the Western Pacific basin are usually associated with La Nina. Global ACE is still near 33-year lows , and shows no signs of picking up anytime soon.??
Nevertheless, skepticism about manmade climate disasters is gradually gaining ground.
The global warming legislation backed by President Obama would drive jobs overseas, since it would impose a costly cap-and-trade carbon rationing scheme on American industry, while leaving foreign plants operated by multinational corporations unregulated. Companies with plants overseas are lobbying for the global warming legislation, which would give them an advantage over American competitors. The legislation Obama backs may perversely increase pollution by driving industry overseas to places with fewer environmental regulations.
A dozen states have already sued EPA over its Clean Power Plan, which is opposed by experts on both sides of the aisle and even noted liberal constitutional scholar Laurence Tribe. Other states should join the suit, demand a full accounting of regulatory costs, and simply refuse to implement the plan.
Personally I dont think God pays any interest in the sexual mores of a person as long as there is love behind them (with consent, adulthood, etc etc).
There could be no question as to the climax of the conference. Even the president of Heartland Institute, Joseph Bast, concluded as much, when he decided to present the wrap-up of the conference before Lord Christopher Monckton had spoken at the final lunch gathering on Tuesday, May 18. Lord Monckton is chief policy adviser to the Science and Public Policy Institute. Monckton was also a policy adviser to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. He now travels the world, all for the truth of sound science. Monckton describes truth "as the center of every lasting consensus."
See this amazing film on May 2, and find out for yourself. To learn where it's showing near you, and to buy tickets, visit www.ClimateHustle.com
Whatever the reason, prosecution is not the answer. If you can't stand the heat in the debate room, don't try and bar the doors to others.
Drought Drives Decade-Long Decline in Plant Growth
Judge rules use of GPS to track a cheating spouse is not an invasion of privacy:
A trend analysis of the RSS satellite dataset would reveal a modest global cooling since January 2000, while at the same time, vast amounts of human CO2 emissions were injected into the atmosphere having zero warming impact - in addition, reviewing the empirical measurements since the beginning of the satellite era indicates that huge record-setting CO2 emissions have not caused the IPCC's predicted "accelerating," and "dangerous" global warming, instead temps decelerated
Mr. Obama made his announcement at the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 26 job training center in Lanham, Maryland. He was joined by Building Trades President Mark H. Ayers; United Association of Plumbers and Pipefitters President William P. Hite; and President Ed Hill of the IBEW. He boasted that the plants would create thousands of "well-paying" construction jobs, and 800 permanent jobs after the construction was finished.
And since he knows the deniers are misinformed, anti-science, and confused, it seems odd that he also deleted the link in the quote from Alenes original article (the one his whole article is about) that shows just how nasty those vile people can be. (Its tricky to cut and paste directly isnt it?)
"U.S. employment growth ground to a halt in June, with employers hiring the fewest number of workers in nine months, dampening hopes the economy was on the cusp of regaining momentum after stumbling in recent months."
Hadley Centre/University of East Anglia: +0.3 F/decade.
However, close examination of the source of the claimed 97% consensus reveals that it comes from a non-peer reviewed article describing an online poll in which a total of only 79 climate scientists chose to participate. Of the 79 self-selected climate scientists, 75 agreed with the notion of AGW. Thus, we find climate scientists once again using dubious statistical techniques to deceive the public that there is a 97% scientific consensus on man-made global warming; fortunately they clearly aren't buying it.
The web site sent out an email blast on Gingrich's ideological transgressions on cap-and-trade on Wednesday and demanded: Will Gingrich recant and apologise for appearing in the ad with Pelosi?
Despite the absence of any significant amounts of human-released carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, the climate was HOTTER in Roman and Medieval times than it is now.
OIRA should recognize that regulatory agencies now face no serious discipline, and that, even worse, no one within the agency sees regulation A competing with regulation B. Each regulation is seen as sui generistanding on its own grounds, to be decided only on the grounds that it is, or is not, a "good" thing. The use of B/C analysis to disguise this inherently political decision is foolish. We're merely encouraged agencies to distort the facts, alarm the public, and posture in the media. The idea that OIRA can replicate the decisions that would have been made had a market existed is foolish. Markets without property rightswithout exchange possibilitiesare a Grand Illusion. The information does not exist to determine what might have happened. We should not encourage SONKingthe Scientification of Non-Knowledgeto obscure that fact.
After all, Mississippi didn't cause global warming. The State only industrialized during the 1980sabout a century after the rest of the country. Because of this, the Eagle State's historical contribution to U.S. greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions is tiny. Congress needs to ask itself: Is it right to slow Mississippi's economic growth to solve a problem for which it is not responsible?
One of the key statements (from page 2 of the Executive Summary of the EPA's TSD) is thisa simple mimic the IPCC AR4 finding:
At his latest July 18 Saturday Summary here , Joe Bastardi presented the latest NCEP global temperature chart for the past 10 years, and here more confirmation that the globe has cooled off a bit.
Health authorities admit wind turbine syndrome is real
Iain Murray, The Corner , 1 April 2010
On December 4, 2011 it will have been 2,232 days since Hurricane Wilma made landfall along the Gulf coast as a category 3 storm back in 2005. That number of days will break the existing record of days between major US hurricane landfalls, which previously was between 8 Sept 1900 (the great Galveston Hurricane) and 19 Oct 1906. Since there won??t be any intense hurricanes before next summer, the record will be shattered, with the days between intense hurricane landfalls likely to exceed 2,500 days.