Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
The report says EPAs proposed new source performance standard for hydraulic fracturing could cut unconventional natural gas production by up to 11 percent and unconventional oil production by as much as 37 percent by 2015
Heres the reasonwhen you are sick you are susceptible to infections, and I am here to assert you are not a sterile thingyou have bugs everywhere, on your skin, in your nose, mouth, throat, and respiratory tract, certainly in your intestines, and in female genital tracts. Male urinary tracts are relatively free of bugs.
The DN writes Omar Daham enthusiastic about the German energiewende and how individual hushll and villages around puts up their own solar collectors and Gnar up for biotervinning. Although the subsidies cost a lot, but ND.
A recent study (Idso, 2013) reviewed a large collection of such literature as it applies to the worlds 45 most important food crops (making up 95% of the worlds annual agricultural production). Idso (2013) summarized his findings on the increase in biomass of each crop that results from a 300ppm increase in the concentration of carbon dioxide under which the plants were grown. This table is reproduced below, and shows that the typical growth increase exceeds 30% in most crops, including 8 of the worlds top 10 food crops (the increase was 24% and 14% in the other two).
India to build observatory to study neutrino particles:
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Director of Energy & Global Warming Policy Myron Ebell on the action in Congress needed to increase access to domestic energy sources:
Jacobson noted that some carbon particles specifically white and gray carbon, the variants associated with some types of ash can exert a cooling effect because they reflect sunlight. That must be weighed against the warming qualities of the black and brown carbon particles and CO 2 emissions generated by biomass combustion to derive a net effect.
CO 2 emissions due to human activity rose gradually from the onset of the Industrial Revolution, reaching ~1 billion tonnes per year (expressed as carbon) by 1945, and then accelerated to ~9 billion tonnes per year by 2007. Since ~1945 when CO 2 emissions accelerated, Earth experienced ~22 years of warming, and ~40 years of either cooling or absence of warming.
Some Democrats seem to be convinced Romney doesn't stand for that ? and therefore want him to be the one to face President Obama in November 2012.
All of which proves we're far from down and out in the space race, and that even old technologies work when we're committed to their success.
fired on 5-of-6 humor elements, which is virtually unheard of.
Obamacare beneficiaries have also funded Obama's inaugural committee.
A more complex matter is whether mature technologies should be subsidized. My instinctive response is no, but there is a case to be made that if low cost and reliable energy sources can be made even less expensive to homeowners and businesses, then there can be genuine societal and business benefits to be gained from that. Again, this is not the case for wind or solar.
Ms. Figueres lectured, "To be a success, Durban needs to address further commitments of developed countries under the Kyoto Protocol."
Robert Bradley, CEO and founder of the Institute for Energy Research, said: "BP put form over substance and took their eye off the ball." Bradley called "Beyond Petroleum" "a failed corporate strategy . BP went after an environmental fad, basked in the glow of the Left environmental movement, and now may have destroyed itself in the process."
Latest figures, available for 2012 from the EIA, show that fossil fuels accounted for 82% of electricity generation, with wind/solar contributing less than 3%.
As a result of these various phenomena, Darbah et al .'s gas exchange measurements indicated that whereas the CO 2 -induced stimulation of net photosynthesis in aspen clone 42E was about 31% over the leaf temperature range 32-35C, it was approximately 218% over the temperature range 36-39C, while for aspen clone 171 the corresponding enhancements were 38 and 199%, and for the birch trees they were 95 and 297%.
One of the big lies of 2012 is that March and July were the hottest ever in the US. According to GHCN HCN daily temperatures, those records were actually set more than 100 years ago, in 1910 and 1901.
Greenland did have a warm period ten years ago but temperatures have been plummeting ever since.
Read More: Swedish Church's episcopal letter about the climate. Lena Krantz, Climate Enlightenment 2014-08-01.
Threat of Kyoto is leading to wholesale deforestation in New Zealand.
This is the same EPA leading the effort to shut down coal-fired plants that produce electricity. It is the same EPA seeking to stop the Pebble Mine, described as "a natural resource project in Alaska that could yield more copper than has ever been found in one place anywhere in the world."
Heartland Institute Conference: CO2 Rise Increases Biodiversity, Crop Yields
Romney also has no economic plan to speak of, and liberal New Republic writer Jonathan Chait blogged Monday it's because doing so would "undercut the political salience of his managerial reputation." In other words, "he'll be running as the advocate of a specific program rather than the guy who will do for America what he did at Bain Capital" as a successful "turnaround artist."
Though climate models have proved to be an obvious inconvenient truth, alarmists continue to ignore this elephant in the room.
Here's the thing. All of the sciences are becoming increasingly specialized. So most "scientists" Abraham and, a fortiori, the accident-prone Monbiot among them have no more expertise in predicting or even understanding the strange behavior of the complex, non-linear, chaotic object that is the Earth's climate than the man on the Clapham omnibus.
Miliband's Decarbonisation Policy Won't Work
In conclusion, the EPA Endangerment findings is the culmination of a several year effort for a small group of climate scientists and others to use their positions as lead authors on the IPCC, CCSP and NRC reports to promote a political agenda.
Both of these questions are poorly formulated also because each assumes that respondents accept that global warming is happening. But the U.K. Met Office data released earlier this month demonstrates that there has been no overall warming for 16 years. Since all of the events listed as choices for question #2 occurred in the past two years, ?global warming? could not possibly have made them worse.
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Senior Fellow Marlo Lewis on what such a reduction would entail:
Hansen drew comments from a report released by the WWF in the summer of 2002 titled, Polar Bears at Risk. This report also fingered climate change as the major threat to polar bear well-being.
Along with Minister of Planning Jarbawi and others who think deeply about the state they hope to see emerge from the negotiating process, Fayyad has been developing the literature that will inform and instruct his constituencies. For example, the Palestinian National Authority official program document outlining its agenda, Palestine: Ending the Occupation, Establishing the State, proclaims that "the state will forever be a peace-loving state that rejects violence; it is committed to peaceful co-existence with the world community of nations." The leadership further pledges a democratic state that "respects human rights and guarantees equal rights for all citizens. Its people live in safety and security under the rule of law, safeguarded by an independent judiciary and professional security services."
We can identify such hostility as a stated aversion to the risk-of-loss and as a withering contempt for the achievement-of-gain. Both, of course, being the corresponding sides of the same speculative coin which environmentalism preoccupies itself with in its project to circumvent the process and thereby disenfranchise the external power requiring it.
8,200 years ago, the post-Ice Age interglacial warm period was interrupted by a sudden global cooling that lasted for a few centuries (Fig. 3). During this time, alpine glaciers advanced and built moraines. The warming that followed the cool period was also abrupt. Neither the abrupt climatic cooling nor the warming that followed was preceded by atmospheric CO 2 changes.
Yet this startling growth has not produced so much as a twentieth of a Celsius degree of global warming. Any warming below the measurement uncertainty of 0.05 C in the global-temperature datasets is statistically indistinguishable from zero.
An incredible oil boom is underway, destroying the governments measely estimates for production and getting the US to the point where we will soon challenge Saudi Arabia for the worlds biggest producer
Another member of Gorbachev's very small original coterie of liberalizers, Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze, was just as pained by ubiquitous lawlessness and corruption. He recalls telling Gorbachev in the winter of 1984-1985: "Everything is rotten. It has to be changed."
That wasn't the end of it. Dr. Carlin was then directed not to spend any more EPA time on climate change, and was even forbidden to speak with anyone outside the agency regarding endangerment issues.
hen the extra N2O emission from biofuel production is calculated in "CO2-equivalent" global warming terms, and compared with the quasi-cooling effect of "saving" emissions of fossil fuel derived CO2, the outcome is that the production of commonly used biofuels, such as biodiesel from rapeseed and bioethanol from corn (maize), depending on N fertilizer uptake efficiency by the plants, can contribute as much or more to global warming by N2O emissions than cooling by fossil fuel savings.
A plethora of peer reviewed studies provide absolute confirmation that prior periods were indeed warmer than our modern era; that both warming and cooling affected the entire globe and not just the European/North Atlantic region; and, that the significant prior climate change was entirely natural, not from human CO2 emissions.
Brian Christley, a resident of Abergele, Wales, wrote to the Daily Telegraph : Over the weekend just gone, the coldest of the year so far, all 100-plus off-shore wind turbines along the North Wales coast were idling very slowly, all using grid power for de-icing and to power their hydraulic systems that keep the blades facing in the same direction.
Americans Hit by Excessive Federal Regulations, Threatened by New Energy Rationing
and the key to winning that support is to show clearly which party is
national security policy execution; he watches President Obama and his advisers
Popular in the 1970s, disaster movies now fail to capture the public's interestfew people want to see films in which the plot revolves around something big and impersonal going really wrong. Quite simply, these movies have no real plotno villains, no moral conflicts, and no struggles beyond survival. Sure, we've had Twister and Armageddon in recent years, but reappearances of this genre are rare.
In reality, the cost penalty for the participants would be higher than Nordhaus has estimated because the compliance cost of carbon monitoring, reporting, policing and disputation has not been included. The compliance cost per unit of GHG emissions would escalate as smaller and smaller emissions sources are included.
Truly these days, in more ways than one, are we moving towards a new dark age. Fortunately, however, the latest available data show the downward trend in global temperatures continuing, At least the one thing we dont need to worry about, it seems, is global warming.
Just as important, the image of Congress is far more that of a dysfunctional body riven with partisanship than a well-oiled, or even marginally oiled machine working hard to help the country and its people with their daily challenges. On this front, the blame is widespread, going both to an irresponsible minority and an insensitive majority.
Federal global warming program director of Environment America
Researchers at the University of Alabama-Huntsville have published evidence supporting Richard Lindzen's iris theory, which says that when the Earth's surface warms, cirrus clouds open up to let the heat out. They have analysed data on rainfall and cloud cover and the heat escaping to space. They find a strong negative feedbank , confirming Lindzen's theory and directly contradicting the alarmist case.
According to the RSS satellite data, since September 1996 there has been no global warming for 210 months (17 years 6 months). NOAA?s 2008 State of the Climate report said 15+ years without warming would show a discrepancy between prediction and observation. There has been no warming in central England for 25 years.
Sea level is not rising as predicted. In some interpretations of the sea level data, it has not been rising since 2004.
Petitioners in Mass v. EPA denied the case posed any risks to the U.S. economy,claiming, for example, that, The NAAQS program is entirely separate from the mobile source program at issue in this case( Initial Brief of Petitioners , August 31, 2006, p. 28). Not so.
Where do these people come up with this crap? The last 13 months has been barely above average, and almost half a degree cooler than 1998
Massachusetts v. EPA held that the general term ?air pollutant? includes greenhouse gases, but that doesn?t mean it can never be used in a narrower sense in specific statutory contexts. In a law as complex as the CAA, identical words can be employed differently in different programs. For example, Kavanaugh observes, in Environmental Defense v. Duke Energy Corp., 549 U.S. 561, 574 (2007), the Supreme Court ruled that the EPA could interpret the term ?modification? differently for the New Source Review (NSR) and New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) programs, even though ?the terms share a common statutory definition.?
Rudman offensive but NZ temp record dubious
By Judith Curry, Climate Etc. Aug 13, 2015
And who is George Lucier? Hes a senior bureaucrat who has spent 28 years as a ward of the taxpayers at the National Institute for environmental Health Sciences. His only awards are from the federal agency that employs him. He is a toxicologist, and there is no reason to think he knows as much about the science of global warming as Seitz.
Growth skepticism's rise to orthodoxy has tremendously damaging consequences for America and the world. Within the developed world, it means accepting as permanent a situation in which many people struggle to get by. Many people live in poverty, and many more struggle to maintain an apparent middle-class status.
After this exchange, I lst part of a recent SPPI report by William M. Gray, who strongly criticize precisely the section of the IPCC AR4 that is about hurricanes. He has genomfrt own extensive research over more than 55 years and has supervised an impressive number of graduate students in the hurricane research. He cites, among other things one of Maues figures, showing hurricane development since the 1970s. ACE (= Global A cumulated C yclon E nergy is an index based on the cyclone squared wind speed was 6 hours as long hurricane lasts.
"This is a trade barrier in the name of environmental protection, and it constitutes an attack on the interests of travellers and the international aviation industry," it said in an editorial. "It will be difficult to avoid a trade war focused on a "carbon tax' for airlines."
The link is the putting the evidence in context. It is weighing the argument against the counter-arguments, the significant facts. It happens not just in the judicial system, but in religion, in politics and in our work and in our personal life. If we are not always on our guard against putting the evidence in context, then wrong decisions will be made just as easily as the juries made the wrong decisions in these two cases.
At the current sea-level-equivalent ice-loss rate of 0.05 millimeters per year, it would take a full millennium to raise global sea level by just 5 cm, and it would take fully 20,000 years to raise it a single meter.
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Atmospheric carbon dioxide is not a pollutant. It is a non-toxic, non-irritating, and natural component of the atmosphere. Long-term CO2 enrichment studies confirm the findings of shorter-term experiments, demonstrating numerous growth-enhancing, water-conserving, and stress-alleviating effects of elevated atmospheric CO2 on plants growing in both terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.
However, he predicted bushfires would burn far less area in central Australia by 2070 as hotter, drier, weather reduced the amount of fuel blazes had to feed on.
All countries act in unison to increase the optimal carbon price periodically and continue to maintain the carbon price at the optimal level for all of this century (and beyond).
Thanks to Lyn Jenkins,Dean Koehler and Laurel for these links
The Republican Party has become an insurgent outlier in American politics ideologically extreme; contemptuous of the inherited social and economic policy regime; scornful of compromise; unmoved by conventional understanding of facts, evidence and science; and dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition.
He recounts the derision of historian Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., and economist John Kenneth Galbraith Cambridge neighbors after the war for Harry Truman, the onetime haberdasher and member of veterans' groups and service clubs.
An approximate 180% increase in the air's CO 2 content more than doubled the dry mass produced by well-watered and fertilized St. John's wort plants, while it also more than doubled the concentrations of both hypericin and pseudohypericen found in their tissues, which means that the CO 2 increase more than quadrupled the total production of these two health-promoting substances. This study thus joins several others we describe in our Major Report - Enhanced or Impaired? Human Health in a CO 2 -Enriched Warmer World - as an excellent example of what elevated levels of atmospheric CO 2 can do for medicinal and health-promoting plants: a lot! Reference
Radio Free Europe; With the Winter Olympics less than six weeks away, the security spotlight has been focused on host city Sochi, nestled uncomfortably close to Russia's volatile North Caucasus republics and their ongoing Islamic insurgency. But Andrei Soldatov, the editor of agentura.ru, a Russian site dedicated to terrorism and intelligence, says the Volgograd attacks -- which took place 650 kilometers northeast of Sochi -- throw such planning into disarray. Related?
"As the snow of the coldest March since 1963 continues to fall, we learn that we have barely 48 hours' worth of stored gas left to keep us warm, and that the head of our second-largest electricity company, SSE, has warned that our generating capacity has fallen so low that we can expect power cuts to begin at any time. It seems the perfect storm is upon us.
Peter S on April 29, 2015 at 2:40 pm
The coalition alleged that the method used to collect national temperature records, which show a national warming trend of almost one degree Celsius in the past century, almost 50 per cent above the global average, had been unscientific. That had created an unrealistic and unreliable indication of climate warming, it said.
Independent data analyst Steven Goddard recently released a study of the officially adjusted U.S. temperature records used by NASA, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and other scientists who say they prove we are dangerously warming. (You didn't even know they adjust the raw data, did you?)
That's right, kids in their early-to-mid-twenties with precious little experience in the real world have figured it out. With the grad students' criteria in hand, cities can be monitored for the seriousness with they are meeting their commitment to battle the scourge of climate change.
Cogley, J.G. 2011. Present and future states of Himalaya and Karakoram glaciers. Annals of Glaciology 52 : 69-73.
Thus, he advocated ``restraint in speculating on the meaning of the convention or on possible differences between the convention and customary law.''
The problem is not that the mathematical theories are wrong; they almost never are. But because the math is right does not imply that it is applicable to any real-world problems.
TCR represents the increase in 20-year mean global temperature over a 70 year timeframe during which CO 2 concentrations, rising throughout at 1% p.a. compound, double. More generally, paraphrasing from Section 10.8.1 of AR5 WG1,TCR can be thought of as a generic property of the climate system that determines the global temperature response T to any gradual increase in (effective) radiative forcing (ERF see AR5 WGI glossary, here ) F taking place over a ~70-year timescale, normalised by the ratio of the forcing change to the forcing due to doubling CO 2 , F 2xCO2 : TCR = F 2xCO2 T/F. This equation permits warming resulting from a gradual change in ERF over a 6080 year timescale, at least, to be estimated from the change in ERF and TCR. Equally, it permits TCR to be estimated from such changes in global temperature and in ERF.
A keynote presentation entitled the Road to High Noon included the following graphic (also linked in Anthonys article) as authority for the claim that Glaciers in the Himalaya are receding faster than in any other part of the world and, if the present rate continues, the likelihood of them disappearing by the year 2035 and perhaps sooner is very high if the Earth keeps warming at the current rate
Where might that ``dynamic and evolving body of law'' end up? The U.S. Senate must answer that question before it considers ratifying LOST.
By the end of 2012, just 750 MW of wind energy was installed in New England although thousands of wind megawatts have been proposed. Most projects are small, averaging under 40 MW. Without substantial public support including the federal production tax credit and RPS mandates, most of the installed wind would not have been built at all.
Michael Jeacock, a Cambridgeshire local historian, added that a generation was growing up "without experiencing one of the greatest joys and privileges of living in this part of the world open-air skating".
Coming from the UK, CEI Senior Fellow Iain Murray knows a little something about the history of political empires. Today, however, we find ourselves faced with a new era of eco-imperialism, particularly in the field of global warming policy. Iain explains:
Polar Bears are used so frequently by the warmers that it??s become accepted wisdom that they are threatened . In fact, the polar bear population has doubled to over 25,000 in the past 20 years. The US Government??s recent decision to list the species as threatened was a political decision to avoid a court battle, and has no foundation.
As a curiosity, I can also name a Professor Erik Svensson in Lund also written a small blogginlgg about Climategate.
Carbon cuts: first world vs third world
EMMA ALBERICI: And tomorrow night, in the second part of this special report, could the British Antarctic explorer Robert Scott have lived? We look at how Professor Turney discovered that choosing the right team can be a matter of life and death.
So, if we take what the best science gives us, we find that pretty close to half of the warming that is currently indicated by the extant global temperature datasets may be from influences other than anthropogenic greenhouse gas increasesperhaps a bit less, perhaps a bit more.
Blocking Keystone hasn't prevented Canadian oil from coming into the USA. Back in 2008, when the pipeline was proposed, the U.S. was importing 2.5 million barrels of oil per day from Canada. By August of this year, it was 3.9 million barrels per day. In other words, since 2008, just the increase in Canadian oil coming to the USA amounts to more than 1.5 times the capacity of Keystone XL, which was designed to carry 830,000 barrels a day.
With those preliminaries out of the way, here are the global temperature trends in the two most well-known global analyses, from 1978 to the most recent time available: