Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
The second example comes from some of my experiences in the medical field. Although I am retired from active medical practice, I still do electrocardiogram (ECG) interpretations for the hospital where I used to practice. I have been doing this for about forty yearsas a sideline when I had an active practice and now as my sole medical activity. Currently I read 90-100 ECGs per day. Over the years, I would estimate that I have read well over a million. So I know more than just a little about this one specialized area of cardiology.
If Africa puts up insurmountable roadblocks to food security through modern agriculture, it risks starvation of its own people and loss of wildlife habitat. It seems as if First World activists and the African powerful (who aren't going to starve in any case) are in collusion to keep Africa unstable and hungry. This will, ironically, also keep them burdened with high birth rates driven by the parents' famine fears.
In the concluding paragraph of their paper, Foo et al . affirm that "the presence of tolerant genotypes, and the lack of a trade-off between tolerance to pH and tolerance to warming contribute to the potential of C. rodgersii to adapt to concurrent ocean warming and acidification, adding to the resilience of this ecologically important species in a changing ocean." References
Yeatman: Obama emitted this same canard last SOTU see: http://www.globalwarming.org/2012/01/25/sotu-obama%E2%80%99s-sleight-of-hand-on-oil-production-data/
made some very unequivocal statements along the lines of global warming
The Information Commissioner has ruled on David Holland's EIR request - the one that was so central to the Climategate affair. This appears to be very important. In essence the Commissioner has set a wider rather than a narrower scope on EIR by ruling that information need not have a direct effect on the environment for it to be subject to the regulations. UEA have been found to be in breach of the regulations.
Corrected sunspot history suggests climate change not due to natural solar trends
To us in the Stars goose-pimpled traveling party, it appears that the polar bears are going to keep their habitat after all.
The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation's Real CrisisIvan Osorio's op-ed in Forbes
The federal government dumped similar national standards in December, saying the introduction of its carbon tax had made them redundant.
The IPCC has decided to discount the global warming standstill since 1997 asirrelevant and has deleted from its final document its original acknowledgement (in its 7 June draft) that climate models have failed toreproduce the observed reduction in surface warming trend over the last10-15 years.
From CEI: Director of Global Warming & International Environmental Policy Myron Ebell on the prospects for action on ESA reform.
"I believe this $800 million settlement gives the Virgin Islands Attorney General a lot of credibility in being involved in the inner circle of this because he's proved that he can shake down a major company," said Myron Ebell, director of the Center for Energy and Environment at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, one of Mr. Walker's targets.
???As shown in the accompanying figure, the d11B-derived pH values for the South China Sea fluctuated between a pH of 7.91 and 8.29 during the past seven thousand years, revealing a large natural fluctuation in this parameter that is nearly four times the 0.1 pH unit decline the acidification alarmists predict should have occurred since pre-industrial times.??
Guest Opinion: Global warning: Beware of zealot Al Gore - Ellen Prekop
As most readers know by now, the problematic GISTEMP global temperature anomaly plot for October is heavily weighted by temperatures from weather stations in Russia.
42 National Governors Association, "New Source Review," from the NGA Web site (www.nga.org) on June 11, 2002.
The processes of El Nio and La Nia themselves are not opposites. La Nia is simply an exaggeration of the normal state of the tropical Pacificthat is, La Nias are the normal state with some oomph. On the other hand, an El Nio takes naturally created warm water from below the surface of the western tropical Pacific and relocates it the surface. When its below the surface, the warm water is not included in the surface temperature record, but during and after the El Nio, the warm water is included in the surface temperature record. That warm water makes a short appearance in the eastern tropical Pacificwhere scientists measure sea surface temperatures so that we know an El Nio is taking placebefore the warm water is distributed around the global oceans, causing the long-term natural warming of sea surface and land surface air temperatures.
Roughly one million children and another million pregnant women die from malaria each year, for example, a tragedy that could well be brought under control if the controlled use of DDT was encouraged by the U.S. and utilized by international pesticide programs. Another four million people a year die from lung infections which are caused by breathing in smoke and air pollution from wood and dung they use for cooking and heatinga problem which can be solved by helping developing nations attain modern electricity production. Yet another six million more perish from dysentery and other intestinal diseases caused by spoiled food and unsafe water, issues which can be addressed through American efforts at improving refrigeration, water purification and food irradiation. The Bush Administration can make its mark on these issues by setting the tone and providing leadershipleadership that is presently absent in the international communityover the next four years.
CEI Experts Available to Comment: Senior Fellow Marlo Lewis on Gore's climate claims:
El Nio, La Nia El Nio and La Nia events tend to alternate about every three to seven years. However, the time from one event to the next can vary from one to ten years.
What Mr. Chu didnt mention is the clean energy market is an artificial one built upon an unsound theory. It posits that combustion of the carbon-based fuels that power modern civilization is elevating levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide, trapping heat and cooking the planets biosphere. Whats missing in this scary tale is the link between cause and effect. If an increase in carbon dioxide from human activity causes rising temperatures, then the warming trend should have accelerated as industrialization has spread. It hasnt.
That air when dry contains roughly 78% nitrogen, 21% oxygen, 1% argon and very small amounts of other gases in fact, such small amounts that they were called trace amounts until we discovered global warming. At that point we called it the greatest challenge in human history and people began to exaggerate the influence of carbon dioxide.
The map resembles the planet Earth, where most of us reside. The continents are in the right places, and so are the oceans. But we know thats not the Earth. The risks illustrated are based on climate models, and we know that climate models used by the IPCC for their reports are not based on Earths actual climate, as it has existed in the past, or as it exists now. The maps output by climate models may resemble our Earth, but theyre fantasy maps of a fantasy world. They create nothing more than an illusionan illusion that is intended to make it look like bad things will happen in the future if we all do not agree to reduce our carbon footprints.
More Confirmation That Unprecedented Global Warming Happened In Past Say, The 1930s
He focuses on a particular study within the energy balance modelling approach. What he doesnt say is that this paper suggests estimates of climate sensitivity that are largely unchanged based on recent temperature data, and that it implies the need to cut global emissions significantly in order to limit currently high risks of very dangerous climate change. Neither does he refer to other studies within this approach which find a higher sensitivity. He does not highlight the limitations of energy balance modelling, which is no more certain than climate modelling.
factoring constraints into the equation. This raises the issues of economic
In early 2010, MoveOn.org purchased air time for a television ad that claimed a pending Senate vote to "roll back" the Clean Air Act would be as harmful as forcing cigarettes on children.
On Syria, Obama has constructed an elaborate scaffolding around his ignominious retreat, both from his demands that Assad must go to his infamous "red line." First, or so apparently went the president's thinking, "e was tired of watching Washington unthinkingly drift toward war in Muslim countries. Four years earlier, the president believed, the Pentagon had "jammed' him on a troop surge for Afghanistan. Now, on Syria, he was beginning to feel jammed again." (Never mind that later in the piece he dishes out another serving of self-satisfied praise for his decision to up troop levels in Afghanistan.)
Mr. Mann??s 1999 paper eliminated the Medieval warm period from the history books, with the result being the bottom graph you see here. It??s a man-made global-warming evangelist??s dream, with a nice, steady temperature oscillation that persists for centuries followed by a dramatic climb over the past century. In 2001, the IPCC replaced the first graph with the second in its third report on climate change, and since then it has cropped up all over the place. Al Gore uses it in his movie.
?This hiatus could persist for much of the present decade if the tradewind trends continue; however rapid warming is expected to resume once the anomalous wind trends abate,? the Aussie scientists added. ?Volcanoes and changes in solar radiation can also drive cooler decades against the backdrop of ongoing warming.?
If I had a chance to accomplish even a fraction of that, I'd have to try. I couldn't morally afford inaction. Even if I risked everything, would never get personal compensation, and could probably never talk about it with anyone.
We in Europe have put our cards on the table. It is time for the special pleading to stop and for others to follow suit." Britain has called for steep emission cuts and increases in foreign aid to help developing countries grow without increasing emissions. Other countries, Germany included, called for a new international environmental bureaucracy.
"The glaciers in the Himalayas are receding faster than in any other part of the world and, if the present rate continues, a large number of them may disappear by 2035 because of climate change." Such was the lede of one of countless articles about how 1.3 billion Asians were in imminent danger of first flooding and then drought. And that's not to mention the certain extinction of the abominable snowman.
In 2005, As You Sow filed a shareholder resolution on global warming with the financial services giant JPMorgan Chase & Co. In return for withdrawal of the resolution, the bank announced that it would lobby for global warming regulations. Though the CEO apparently thought that settling with As You Sow would make the controversy vanish, a shareholder group that I am affiliated with spotlighted the embarrassing capitulation at the bank's annual meeting and forced the bank to reverse its position on global warming lobbying.
Most would agree that climate science has already directed where humanity puts its capability, innovation, mental and material "might". The scale will grow ever grander in the coming decades if things go according to script. We're dealing with $trillions and potentially drastic influence on practically everyone.
Nigel Calder explores the correlation between cosmic ray flux and its effect on the climate, in particular in relation to the sinking of the Titanic (100 years ago on 15 April):
Undoubtedly, if human caused global warming is one day proven to be a hoax (a moment that may be just around the corner), AL Gore will go down in history as one of the most successful fraud artists ever. He will have enriched himself while causing massive strains to be placed on Western economies just when they are in an economic crisis ... and all this for a hocus pocus theory that has yet to be proven and is showing growing cracks in its facade. But, emerging ever more from the shadows is the real man behind the Global warming frenzy; Dr. James Hansen of NASA .
According to a press release from the British Antarctic Survey, temperatures of the Antarctic peninsula were 1.3C warmer than today 11,000 years ago . Examination of a graph from the paper also indicates nearby sea surface temperatures were up to a remarkable 10C warmer than the 1961-1990 mean 12,000 years ago as the Earth emerged from the last major ice age. The graph also indicates the Antarctic peninsula warmed at a much faster rate from 13,000 to 12,000 years ago than over the past 1000 years. Greenhouse gases could not possibly explain this radical climate change, especially given the fact that there was little change in greenhouse gases during these periods and that infrared radiation from greenhouse gases cannot heat the oceans.
Inferentially, the bureaucrats have decided they can no longer pretend I was wrong to say there has been no global warming for 16 years. This one cannot be squeezed back into the bottle. So they have decided to focus on n years without warming so that, as soon as an uptick in temperature brings the period without warming to an end, they can neatly overlook the fact that what really matters is the growing, and now acutely embarrassing, discrepancy between predicted and observed long-term warming rates.
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Texas executes Mexican despite White House plea:
And finally, Lindzens statement bears repeating, a statement that is wholly consistent with my own statements on the Subterranean War on Science:
Some recent studies estimate inland waters emit approximately one billion tons of carbon dioxide and methane every year. Those estimates have mostly involved researchers collecting daytime water samples for analysis, once or twice a month, missing any increases or decreases in emissions occurring between readings or at night.
As the air's CO 2 content rises, potatoes will likely display an increase in their water-use efficiency , due in part to reductions in stomatal conductance and increases in rates of net photosynthesis. Thus, it is likely that potatoes will be able to better deal with water stress in the future. In addition, it is also possible that potatoes could be grown in more arid regions if the air's CO 2 content rises.
Australias antarctic runway melting | Wollondilly Advertiser
Roy Spencer contends in this posting that,as part of my exploration of different surface temperature datasets, I'm examining the relationship between average U.S. temperatures and other weather variables in NOAA's Integrated Surface Hourly (ISH) dataset. (I think I might have mistakenly called it "International" before, instead of "Integrated" Surface Hourly).Anyway , one of the things that popped out of my analysis is related to our record warm March this year (2012). Connecting such an event to "global warming" would require either lazy thinking, jumping to conclusions, or evidence that the warmth was not caused by persistent southerly flow over an unusually large area for that time of year.
He was at the center of the 2009 Climategate scandal involving the global warming issue. Based on stolen e-mails, scientists were accused of manipulating data to promote their theory that global warming is being exacerbated by humans.
Finally there the big skeleton in the closet called Iraq, with the United Kingdom junior partner in an alliance with the US opposed by almost all lelettorato, without any evidence that President Bush has never really listened to his buddy Tony, stuck in a war that does not seem endless.
It is the fact that henges of various sorts are found all over the place (and since we know of some that have been destroyed during the time of written history, we can presume there were more than even the ones weve found) that leads me to the simple conclusion that these were modestly common places. Places where the local farmers might meet for a farmers market while visiting the local season solstice party and picking up a new moon counter or learning a new Henge Tuning Trick ;-)
Clouds both cool down and warm up the earth's surface. They cool the earth by reflecting some sunlight up into outer space, and they warm it by bouncing some sunlight down to the surface. Overall, most clouds have a net cooling effect, but atmospheric scientists need to accurately measure when they cool and warm to produce better climate models that incorporate clouds faithfully .
Do we really want to repeat that experience on a global scale? Kyoto and its progeny threaten a vast array of international (and domestic) bureaucrats allocating economic rights and privileges based on vague standards, arbitrary conditions and bad science.
And that is exactly what he did. The animation below shows how Gavin has altered the US temperature record since 1998, and turned the gold standards of climatology into lead
Instead of using a single number, or point estimate, for the ECS, the IAMs use a distribution of possible values for the ECS. In essence, the distribution is a spectrum of values in which potential temperatures are weighted by their probability of occurrence. Because of the myriad factors that affect measured temperatures, estimates of ECS distributions are themselves uncertain and evolve as new data and theory are added to the process.
"Al Gore foils opponents," proclaimed Associated Press, after Gore had just announced a "surprise" Live Earth concert in Washington, D.C., the next day. "Global warming naysayers in the political world have not been able to have their way, because this will - despite their best efforts - be held on the Mall," Gore was quoted in the story as saying.
Postscript: I really have little use for discussions about funding amounts and sources of various causes. I find it largely irrelevent. So I post this only because this week we are talking about the Heartland Institute's funding of climate skeptics as revealed by hero (if you are an environmentalist blog) or thief Peter Gleick. Heartland sends a portion of its $6 million budget to support various climate skeptics, and somehow this "revelation" has environmentalists running in circles screaming rape. But Heartland's pitiful few millions seem a joke in comparison to the environmental funding torrent. Take this example from the Canadian tar sands issue , just a single one of a myriad of climate-related issues getting millions, even billions of dollars of funding.
Climate experts claim that hot days in the US are becoming more common due to increased CO2, but the data shows the exact opposite. Through June 15, hot days peaked in 1911 and were much more common prior to 1960.
Because of the immense heat capacity of the deep ocean, the magnitude of deep warming in Scenario 3 might only be thousandths of a degree. Whether we can measure such tiny levels of warming on the time scales of decades or longer is very questionable, and the new study co-authored by Trenberth is not entirely based upon observations, anyway.
Found it in Dr Richard Keens Global Warming Quiz , via Roger Pielke, Sr.s Climate Science .
Antarctic Bottom Water across a wide sector off East Antarctica has freshened, and the densest bottom water in the Weddell Sea has warmed.
Whilst human-adjusted datasets show some warming, none of those predicted to warm by at least 0.14/decade by the IPCC in 2001 have warmed at even the lowest predicted rate.
In commenting on their findings, Comeau et al . state that "the increased resistance of Acropora hyacinthus exposed to large pCO 2 oscillation (particularly in the 400-2000-oscillating treatment) compared to the response of corals under constant pCO 2 conditions suggests that reef corals may be more resistant to future ocean acidification conditions in locations where diel variation in seawater pCO 2 is pronounced."
National security amounted to an afterthought. He devoted one paragraph eachout of the approximately 110 paragraphs in the speechto Iraq, Afghanistan, and terrorism. It is as if Lincoln had spent most of his Inaugural Addresses on the transcontinental railroad and the Homestead Act.
The Heartland Institute speaks with Myron Ebell on the presidential candidates' mentions of climate policy.
How about signing some of those low-income people up for the 42,000 construction jobs and welcoming them into the middle class? How's that for environmental justice?
Here Poulot and Jacob, engineer goofs from Harvard propose that American Food production for export is badproduces too much small particulate pollution and too much ammonia yadayadddyaaaayaa.
The debate over GMOs is often compared to the controversy over global warming, but I don't think the analogy holds. Although most climate scientists agree that man has caused global warming, there are academics who specialize in climate science who disagree, at least in part, with their peers. It's instructive that the opposition to genetic engineering is led by non-scientists. Television personalities, bloggers, philosophers, and journalists all oppose the technology, but the opposition to genetic engineering among the professional community, at least opposition on safety grounds, is essentially nonexistent. That unanimity, while reassuring, has led to a paradox: Scientist are reluctant to engage, because they don't want to argue with people whom they don't respect. Like my Missouri friends, they won't waste their valuable research time engaging with those they consider not worthy of their intellect and their time.
Figure 1. Mauna Loa CO2 data (orange circles), and CO2 data from 8 separate ice cores. Fuji ice core data is analyzed by two methods (wet and dry). Siple ice core data is analyzed by two different groups (Friedli et al., and Neftel et al.). You can see why Michael Mann is madly desirous of establishing the temperature hockeystick ?? otherwise, he has to explain the Medieval Warm Period without recourse to CO2. Photo shows the outside of the WAIS ice core drilling shed.
Temperature data from 1079 stations worldwide contributed to the analysis, 134 of them being located in the 50 US states. Data from essentially the same few stations have been used for the past twenty-four months. Many, many hundreds of stations that have historically been included in the record and still collect data today continue to be ignored by GISS in global temperature calculations.
The map also shows a 40 per cent to 60 per cent probability that western England and Wales will be warmer than 3.7C (38.6F), with a much smaller chance of average or below-average temperatures.
Many critics of exporting shale gas, including Congressmen, are environmental ideologues who have come to believe that natural gas is an unacceptable energy option regardless of its vast potential benefits. Its advanced extraction procedure, hydraulic fracturing, is just too dangerous, they say. The nation should not provide any incentive, including exporting gas, which could result in expanding gas exploration. They contend that if the US expands LNG exports, it would be exporting greenhouse gases with the fuel, making it harder to combat global climate changes.
I raked Rahmstorf and company over the coals on this point. I ran their own model with the corrected data from their own source (Church and White) and published the results online. The result: vastly lower sea level projections for the 21 st century. Their response: silence.
Wondering about the credibility of #climatechange #denial attack dog #StephenMcIntyre? @DeepClimate?s got the goods: http://deepclimate.org/?s=McIntyre
instrumental data ! It is a classic. Our uncertainty estimates are based solely on how
The conditional part of the registration means that EPA does not have all the legally required toxicity data, but is letting the pesticide on the market anyway, on the condition that the manufacturer, HeiQ, provide it sometime over the next four years. Four years! (More on the registration process from my colleague Mae Wu here)