Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
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But in the case of the JFK assassination, there is simply no evidence that there were numerous shooters and/or that there was any organization or group of people who would want to increase the probability of the success by a backup plan or a spare shooter. In fact, it's very likely that if there had been several shooters, we would almost certainly learn about some traces the others have left. There aren't any.
The response to this question was 75 specialists out of 77, so here we have our massive 97%.
???Our modeling shows that natural climate cycles explain at least part of the ocean warming we??ve seen since the 1950s,?? said Dr. Roy Spencer, a principal research scientist in UAH??s Earth System Science Center and the new study??s lead author. ???But we also found that because the globe has had more frequent La Nia cooling events in the past ten or fifteen years, they are canceling out some of the effects of global warming.??
A July 2014 e-mail from Judd Legum, an editor at ThinkProgress, to billionaire Democratic climate activist (and former coal-mine investor) Tom Steyer exposes the climate-change McCarthyism that the Left and its myriad allies in the liberal media use to discredit or silence anyone who doesn't adhere to the orthodoxy of the climate catastrophists.
Marchionne has not only resurrected the gas-guzzling Viper (which was doomed in 2008), he has doubled down on making SUVs, a model scorned by Obama and his environmental base. The result is Chrysler returning to profitability not by selling tin cans (the 500, with profit margins of less than $1,000 a copy, disappointed in its first-year sales) but tens of thousands of Jeep Grand Cherokees with profit margins in the neighborhood of $3,000-5,000 per vehicle. That light-truck demand now employs three full shifts at Chryslers Jefferson North plant in Detroit. Those are blue-collar jobs. UAW jobs.
It is only in the past 50 years that the continent has a first person instrumental record. Looking back a few hundred years further much important information about the climate of Antarctica has come from a network of recently available shallow firn cores. This data reveals that significant regional climate changes has taken place.Atmospheric temperatures have increased markedly over the Antarctic peninsula, as we shall see this is probably linked to nearby ocean warming and intensification of the circumpolar westerlies.
As to the "correlation" between the industrial era and this increase in rise rate, well, the rate increase appears to begin around 1880, well before the rise in industrial emissions. It would not be before increases in land-use change that would contribute to erosion.
What are the political consequences of this great change in the tide of affairs? In former times a king who persisted in ruinous policies was eventually forced to save his throne and the monarchy itself, by abandoning the adviser who was most identified with the policy, conducting a trial, and then executing the former favourite. Under such circumstances Charles I agreed to the execution of the Earl of Strafford, an act of which he repented at his own beheading.
The UK government has unsurprisingly been trying to alarm us all with scares ranging from rising sea levels, floods and droughts to extinctions of species, higher insurance costs and tropical diseases. Would it be too much to expect that they check the facts first?
These green dictators refuse to debate any of this.Indeed, they do not want anyone to talk about it.
The data as suggested above are the Reynolds OI.v2 satellite-enhanced sea surface temperature anomalies, which are available through the NOAA NOMADS website here .
"A war of words grew this week between China and Japanese rolling stock manufacturers, reigniting a battle over whether Chinese state-owned firms stole high-speed rail technology and are now attempting to market it themselves overseas."
When I speak of "climate" I am referring to data gathered not just about decades, but centuries of the Earth's cycles of warming and cooling. When I speak of "weather", the closest any of us get to it other than today's, are local predictions no longer than a few days' time at best. The weather is in a constant state of flux.
Naturally, the forcible disconnection of actions from consequences has led to a series of catastrophes and misadventures bumbled intrusions in Iraq and Afghanistan while failing to bring Osama bin Laden to justice, a ghastly housing bubble and crash of financial markets followed by a nagging recession, horrifyingly irresponsible expansion of government debt, a grotesque comedy of errors as the federal government and a multinational megabusiness fail to plug an oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico, children's academic achievement at a disastrously low level, entertainment and arts given over in great part to proselytizing for the aristocracy's pet political causes and character assassination of all who dare to question that agenda, and so on and on.
What a gross travesty of the truth, and such appalling reporting, but these are the messages fed to acquiescent politicians who do not bother to check the facts, and criticise those who do. How low has science sunk, that scientists will dispense this sort of disinformation to promote their own agenda?
"Part of that dirty work would involve liberating carbon dioxide from its label as pollution by the main stream media and carbon opportunists like Al Gore and large Wall Street investment firms. Part of the dirty work would be exposing hypocrites like film maker James Cameron and billionaire Ted Turner who want you to live with less to ?save the planet? while they live with more. Part of the dirty work would be exposing the truth about the benefits of more carbon dioxide in the air, its enhancement of agriculture and all living things and its miniscule role in changing the future climate of the world. Part of that dirty work would be telling the truth about where the real money in climate change is. Here?s the result of some dirty work for you.
The five following graphs illustrate the lack of global warming in US and Canada.
Om Cancun: Lyckligtvis s kommer ingen att ta ngon strre notis om klimatmtet i Cancn i nsta vecka, dr en kraftigt reducerad grupp av delegater kommer att g igenom ritualen. Den illusoriska drmmen om att kunna bekmpa klimatfrndring r dd. Barak Obamas cap-and-trad-plan r dd. Chicagobrsen fr koldioxid r dd. Den europeiska unionens frmodade reduktion av kodioxidutslpp har avsljats som en jttelik bluff. ( Se t.ex. hr ) Allmnhetens intresse fr klimatfrndringar har rasat, och media har radikalt minskat sin bevakning av klimatfrgan.
"These studies underscore the fact that efforts to try to pin claims of attribution of recent events to greenhouse gas emissions are empirically groundless, even if symbolically and emotionally satisfying. We are going to have to proceed into the future without knowing the influence of greenhouse gas emissions on extremes."
first 100 days? It is very unlikely that any president will have the hugely
"Beating up on oil companies has always been low-hanging fruit for politicians when gasoline prices are high. And as the country is headed into the summer driving season, gas prices are certain to go higher, giving Democrats the opportunity to play that card."
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We're proud of Graham Beduze and the Cajun navy and marines.
"A judge ruled this week that the Service Employees International Union improperly coerced workers caught in the middle of SEIU's high-stakes turf battle with a breakaway union in California, potentially invalidating a 2010 election involving 43,500 employees."
Global warming isnt happening - temperatures have gone nowhere for 20 years. Yet we continue to spend billions fixing a non-existent problem.
The title of the book, ?An Appeal to Reason?, is well-chosen and indicates what the book is about. Its subtitle, ?A Cool Look at Global Warming,? is equally important. I am really glad that the Czech translation comes out less than a year after the original publication. My book, ?Blue Planet in Green Shackles,? was launched one year before, but I say in all honesty that had it been the other way around, I would have gladly and extensively cited Nigel Lawson.
"After months of negotiations, members of the 1199 SEIU United Healthcare Workers will be going on strike."
"Alarm over the prospect of the Earth warming is not warranted by the agreed science or economics of the issue. Global warming is happening and man is responsible for at least some of it. Yet this does not mean that global warming will cause enough damage to the Earth and humanity to require drastic cuts in energy use, a policy that would have damaging consequences of its own. Moreover, science cannot answer questions that are at heart economic or political."
The trees is open for our own lsares klimatmnen. And all that you are and we possibly forgotten away, or did not have time, to inform people about
"Violeta Aylward, an agency nurse working for the NHS, was caught on camera turning off the ventilator keeping quadriplegic Jamie Merrett alive."
Australias antarctic runway melting | Camden Haven Courier
Speedy comments: Imagine what fun Brian and John would have had in the last few months if theyd been off the leash??? Maybe something like this, but only better...
California High Speed Rail Governor's Veto may be Illegal:
Political observers debate the implications of the virtual world known as "Second Life."
Fig. 2. Re-analysis of the satellite-based feedback parameter estimates of Forster and Gregory (2006) showing that they are consistent with negative feedback rather than positive feedback (low climate sensitivity rather than high climate sensitivity).
Similarly, the 1994 federal appeals court decision cited above (Pfizer v. Giles) found that the mere pendency of a lawsuit against a company for belonging to, and contributing to, a trade association contravened the First Amendment because the lawsuit chilled participation in and contributions to that association. Accordingly, it issued a writ of mandamus dismissing the suit.
Do Russians hate their grandchildren, or have they been brainwashed by Rush Limbaugh?
we discuss this climate metric. A subsection of the text, reproduced from that paper states,
Tony Blair is set to earn millions of pounds advising an American businessman on how to make money from tackling climate change.
But developing countries, primarily India and China, have made it quite clear that they have no appetite to slow economic growth or curb use of conventional fuels to control emissions. For this reason, Canada, Japan, and Russia refused to sign onto a new agreement committing them to emissions reductions unless major developing country emitters were also included. Until and unless this issue is resolved, the U.S. would be foolish to consider unilateral restrictions on the U.S. economy that, in the end, would be merely symbolic without significant effect on global emissions reductions.
We now know but sought to confirm whether all such records CEI seeks would be on Mrs. Clinton's private email server. After receiving no cooperation from the State Department on its key threshold request, CEI was forced to sue. CEI's first step was to seek documents relating to the email and record keeping and security practices of Secretary Clinton and her inner circle, including if they submitted the required attestation whether they possessed any work-related emails on non-official accounts or thumb drives.
Methinks the good doctor needs to stop worrying which team he is on and look at the paper. Even more importantly than the infilling, proper characterization of autocorrelation powerfully affects the screening of Enzyte accredited series, as this post demonstrates .
Yet for many of the officials in the Obama administration, the fatal flaw in the SPP is that it often emphasizes process over results. Twenty working groups of officials from the three governments met privately, often in telephone conference calls that frustrated calls for transparency, allowed various conspiracy mongers to claim that the SPP was a sinister plot by cynical elites, and distracted from the goals of the effort, forcing leaders to repeatedly counter public misperceptions.
Civil rights lawyer and community organizer from Chicago plans to "completely revamp how we use energy" For us to say we are just going to completely revamp how we use energy in a way that deals with climate change , deals with national security and drives our economy, that's going to be my number one priority when I get into office , assuming, obviously, that we have done enough to just stabilize the immediate economic situation.
Figure 17: The best and latest temperature picture. The current global warming trend started around 1670 to 1700, some 310 years ago. The current temperature is probably less than the medieval peakthe land thermometer data from 1850 to 1980 exaggerates temperature increases, though no one knows by how much. Sources: See text above.
* Biofuels are better for the environment. Nonsense. We are already plowing an area bigger than Iowa to grow corn for ethanol millions of acres that could be food crops or wildlife habitat. The energy per acre is minuscule compared to what we get from oil and gas drilling, with or without fracking. To meet the latest biodiesel mandate of 1.3 billion gallons, producers will have to extract oil from 430 million bushels of soybeans converting countless more acres from food or habitat to energy.
Such attempted reductions in other countries have proved incredibly expensive, while barely reducing emissions. But damn the stubbornly weak economy, says President Obama, full speed ahead!
"Despite Newsom's opposition, the law may still end up on the books. The board passed it on an 8-3 vote Tuesday, the minimum needed to override a veto. An override vote has not been scheduled."
China's plans for its own orbiting space station in 2016 and a manned moon landing by 2025 are driven as much by a desire for strategic, even military leverage as by a thirst for science. Likewise, Russia understands that the path to regaining its superpower status points into space, which is why it continues to pour money into space ventures even as the rest of its economy stagnates.
Compare their beliefs with those of Senator Paul. He proposes dramatically cutting major entitlement programs. He proposes eliminating foreign aid. He champions fossil-fuel production. He is, in the Pew typology, a typical Libertarian. He has little in common with the Post-Moderns he seeks to attract.
These actions are necessitated by the constant push to prove their hypothesis. As Richard Lindzen said years ago, the consensus was reached before the research had even begun. From the beginning, evidence has constantly emerged, and almost all of it contradicts the assumptions made and reinforces a null hypothesis, which the IPCC never entertained. Instead, they create explanations that are later proved incorrect. Their claim of a positive feedback from water vapor in the climate sensitivity of CO2 problem is a good example.
What I think is absurd, what I disagree with very strongly, is the idea that climate is predictable, that we can do things 100 years in advance knowing what's going to happen. That's just not that's just not the way it is.
Sweden has invented a watering can that you pee in, then use to water your garden with . Why wasteful Swedes cant just step outside to pee on their plants without using a plastic can is unclear.
Junk science traditionally has been pretty much of an in-your-face phenomenon. Activist-generated scary headlines that are followed by a hysterical rush to adopt new laws and regulations is standard fare.
Unfortunately, a distinguished ecologist called Jim Steele found fault with her conclusion: there had been more local extinctions in the southern part of the butterflys range due to urban development than in the north, so only the statistical averages moved north, not the butterflies. There was no correlated local change in temperature anyway, and the butterflies have since recovered throughout their range. When Steele asked Parmesan for her data, she refused . Parmesans paper continues to be cited as evidence of climate change. Steele meanwhile is derided as a denier. No wonder a highly sceptical ecologist I know is very reluctant to break cover.
A shiny new satellite suggests that a cooling period of up to 23 years could be coming.
George Stephanopholus An Impartial Newscaster For Over 20 Years
when averaging over the entire contiguous U.S., there is no overall trend in flood magnitudes
When news editors assigned stories on the climate back then it was usually spurred by press releases out of places like NCAR, NWS, NOAA, etc., which usually featured a talk, lecture, or findings that were sent to the media. Global warming, in the mid-to-late 1980s was not the AGW ideological era that it is today.
In drawing general conclusions from their many diverse findings, the authors state that "red maple typically germinates better and grows larger with increasing atmospheric CO 2 ." They also state that "genetic variation in CO 2 responses and the rapid increase in global CO 2 concentration suggest the potential for adaptive evolution of this species, which may further enhance productivity with CO 2 enrichment." Or as they describe it in another place, "this species may evolve in response to globally rising CO 2 so as to increase productivity above that experimentally observed today." Consequently, the ongoing rise in the air's CO 2 content bodes well indeed for the future robustness of the planet's red maple trees.
The Simple Moving Average stack is in a weave pattern. This often happens at decision or inflection points. After a rise, it often means a fall to come. Furthermore, that spike down today was not good. At this point Id be exiting any remaining gold trade positions (if I had any, but I sold mine some time ago).
Climate Models: 100% right except for rain, drought, storms, humidity and everything else
"The AFL-CIO, the New York Times reported, recently distributed an internal memo warning its members that in several states around the country, Republicans may pursue new laws with the goal of financially starving labor unions. This trend has public employee unions worrying that lawmakers will finally scale back the extent to which unions eat up state budgets."
The five scientists state that their results "do not support the prediction that the response of grassland species to elevated CO 2 will be short-lived as the demand for nutrients increases," in clear contradiction of the claim of Luo and Reynolds, as well as the similar claims of others (see our Editorial of 10 December 2003 ); for as they reiterate in the concluding sentence of their paper, "contrary to the belief that the response of grassland species to elevated CO 2 will be short-lived, stimulation of photosynthesis in T. repens remained after eight years of exposure to elevated CO 2 ." References
After years of testifying before administrative agencies and lobbying in legislatures with disappointing results, many climate activists see the courts as their last best hope. Over the past few years, lawsuits have been filed in almost every American state and in many foreign countries asserting that the judiciary has the authority and the responsibility to order the executive and legislative branches of government to take more aggressive actions to combat climate change.
Oil workers defy French govt demand to open depots:
"The Kyoto Protocol is a death treaty, no matter how strange this seems, because its main purpose is to stifle economic growth and economic activity in countries that assumes obligations under this protocol." Some reports suggested that Dr Illarionov even compared the treaty to Auschwitz. (Reuters, Interfax).
Much of that green will be depend upon appeasing priorities of a billionaire and climate activist named Tom Steyer who has indicated willingness to earmark $100 million or more to help put or keep congressional candidates who support his priorities. Steyer threatened in an open letter that Obama better reject Keystone or else! It warned: "Given that none of the chief arguments being put forth by supporters of the pipeline remain standing, NextGen Action is going to be working with our friends and allies who are opposed to the development of Keystone XL to intensify our efforts in communicating what is the right policy choice to your Administration."
"It would cost the British economy 50bn a year up to 2050 to meet the requirementsof the UK Climate Change Act. Local authorities should do absolutely nothing to tackle climate change. Your money could be put to far greater use."
Moreover, the history of flood events in Eastern Australia (particularly southern Queensland and Northern NSW) is inextricably linked to both La Nina occurrence and PDO/IPO phases.
???The GAO report is just more evidence that the administration has no clue what drives a successful economy and job growth,?? said Paul Chesser, an associate fellow at the National Legal and Policy Center. ???President Obama tried to build this economic sector, but the buyers didn??t come. And now after the initial flurry, the green jobs?? are evaporating.?? more??
These claims and demands are specious. For one thing, they ignore the way that "organic" is defined by the production standards of Vilsack's own department. The USDA's rules for organic production, which do bar the intentional use of genetically engineered crops, are based on process, not outcomes. In other words, as long as organic growers adhere to permissible practices and do not intentionally plant genetically engineered seeds, unintentional cross-pollination by genetically engineered plants (or for that matter, the drift of a prohibited pesticide onto their crops) does not cause those crops to lose their organic status.
27b. The potential that climate change might have some positive effects in other parts of the world
Canadians Stephen McIntyre and Ross McKitrick were unable to replicate Manns results and Mann initially refused to provide them with all the input data. The saga is detailed in various publications** and a chapter in Aynsley Kellows book Science and public policy : The virtuous corruption of virtual environmental science
Baliunas: When the sun's magnetism is strong, the sun's energy output is higher and the Earth is warmer. . . . We measured that carefully over the last 20 years with satellites from the Earth, and we measured it indirectly going back 400 years, 1,000 years, and 10,000 years.
The implication for TCR of the substantial revision in AR5 to aerosol forcing estimates
What makes the endeavor risky is that "prices gyrate and occasionally spike... not because oil is scarce, but because it's so abundant in places where good government is scarce."
Michael Mann, take note. One of the most ridiculous claims made by climate alarmists is that skeptics get huge gobs of oil coated money. For example, there is the recent claim:
Geiger?s valuable book Climate Near the Ground published in 1950 was an important contribution to climate science that few know about, but that requires another column.
Your house furnace runs at a few thousand degrees, and the insulation in your house helps to trap the air warmed up by the fire in the furnace. If your house is drafty or has poor insulation, the warm air escapes the inside of your house easily, exchanging itself with cool air from outside. If you have a well-sealed house with good insulation, the warm air stays inside your house for a longer time.