Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
This suggests a second threshold question: when did the United States last experience per-capita CO2 emissions of only 2.4 tons? From the limited historical data available, it appears that this was about 1875. In 1875, the nation's GDP (in 2008 dollars) was $147 billion, per-capita income (in 2008 dollars) was $3,300, and the population was only 45 million. (It is possible that per-capita CO2 emissions were never this low even before the advent of widespread fossil fuel use, as wood burning by Americans in the nineteenth century may have produced more than 2.4 tons of CO2 per capita. Much depends on the emissions coefficient for wood burning and how, since wood is biomass rather than a fossil fuel, regrowth of forestland is credited in carbon accounting. In 1875, twice as much energy was generated from burning wood than fossil fuels.)
There is an obvious sense of panic in the rhetoric of climatecampaigners right now. This panic arises not simply from the fact thatthe global economic crisis is derailing expensive climate action plans,but from the deeper problem that the scientific case for catastrophicglobal warming is slowly unraveling.
The Carboniferous Period and the Ordovician Period were the only geological periods during the Paleozoic Era when global temperatures were as low as they are today. To the consternation of global warming proponents, the Late Ordovician Period was also an Ice Age while at the same time CO2 concentrations then were nearly 12 times higher than today-- 4400 ppm. According to greenhouse theory, Earth should have been exceedingly hot. Instead, global temperatures were no warmer than today. Clearly, other factors besides atmospheric carbon influence earth temperatures and global warming.
In addition, this instrument, a spectral radiometer at DOE's Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Climate Research Facility located on the southern Great Plains in Oklahoma, allowed the team to calculate what the brightness would be if the day sported a cloudless, blue sky. The spectral measurements taken by the radiometer can be converted into the amount and properties of aerosols. Then aerosol properties can be used to calculate clear blue sky brightness.
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Director of Risk & Environmental Policy Angela Logomasini on the fight between public health officials and environmental activists over West Nile prevention:
Figure 2 presents the weekly sea surface temperature anomalies off the New England coast, starting with the week centered on Wednesday January 3, 1990 and ending with the week of January 30, 2013. The base years for anomalies are the standard climatology of 1971-2000 from the NOAA NOMADS website. The horizontal red line represents the most recent weekly value of +0.55 deg C. Sure does look like its been warmer many times over the past 2+ decades.
What is really going on, says the BBC, is that the jet stream, which determines the rate of progress of weather systems, is in an unusual position and is pushing the weather systems out of their normal paths. "Instead of moving eastwards across the north Atlantic, picking up relatively little water because of the low temperatures at those latitudes, the system crossed into Europe at a lower point, carrying far more moisture as a result."
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Were stuck in our own experiment, the Australasian Antarctic Expedition said in a statement. We came to Antarctica to study how one of the biggest icebergs in the world has altered the system by trapping ice. We are now ourselves trapped by ice surrounding our ship.
TOM BROKAW, anchor: NBC NEWS IN DEPTH tonight, does it seem its been warmer than usual where you live? Well, its not your imagination. Scientists have figured out ways to trace climate changes over hundreds of years now, and their findings are out tonight. The world, in fact, is getting warmer. Our IN DEPTH report now from NBCs chief science correspondent Robert Bazell: ROBERT BAZELL reporting: Terrible storms, floods, heat waves: Is something unnatural really happening to our weather? The answer is yes. The study out today examines detailed records of the earths climate for 600 years.
Temperatures have certainly increased since 1779, and the 30-Year trend shows a small uptick in the last decade or so, as we might have expected. But the interesting thing is that the really significant increase occurred in the late 19thC and early 20thC.
Obama's looming skein of regulations is being promoted just one week after BP issued its latest Statistical Review of World Energy, which provides yet more proof of two indisputable facts: Even without more regulations from the White House or the EPA, the U.S. continues to lead the world in reducing carbon-dioxide emissions. And while the U.S. may be cutting its coal use (and, therefore, its carbon-dioxide emissions), the rest of the world continues to binge on coal.
The difficulty with early period records is further illustrated by NIWAs Eleven-station Series. Although a representative sample would include at least six from the South Island, NIWA was unable to cobble together three until 1944 and had to wait until mid-1948 for a fourth. Then it was another six years until data from these was available for any two successive years.
Compared to Singapore's 1.1 TFR, or Germany's 1.36, the U.S.'s 2.0 (an average of varying rates ranging from 1.93 to 2.18) looks pretty good. But, in Last analysis, the negative trends do not bode well for the future. The large numbers of Hispanic immigrants reached 50.5 million in 2010, compared to 22.3 million in 1990, a doubling of their population in 20 years. Hispanic women are outpacing the U.S. fertility rate with their 2.35 TFR. But that number represents a decline from 2.96 in 1990, plunging nearly 10 percent just between 2007 and 2009.
The data become relatively sparse prior to 1600, and are subject to uncertainties related to spatial completeness and interpretation making the results somewhat equivocal, e.g., less than 90 percent confidence. Achieving greater certainty as to the magnitude of climate variations before that time will require more extensive data and analysis.
The Obama administration estimates six lobster boats and 20 other fishing vessels still operate in the newly-protected area. Officials will allow recreational fishing to continue, but commercial fishing and seabed mining will be banned.
In a region where the sway and cunning of both are closely watched and compared, it has been a good week for the Chinese leader and a poor one for the American.
Al Gore's latest outlandish outburst
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A meta-analysis of the effects of elevated CO2 on 17 variables from 110 published studies reveals that elevated CO2 promoted root morphological development, root system expansion and carbon input to soils, implying that the sensitive responses of root morphology and function to elevated CO2 would increase long-term belowground carbon sequestration?? Read More
Bangladesh Center for Advanced Studies (BCAS) and the Christian Commission for Development in Bangladesh (CCDB), two organizations active in the area, use this womens collective to begin helping villages respond to the challenges associated with floods. With financial support from Norwegian Church Aid, these two organizations had identified 17 of the villages poorest households and decided to raise the foundational platform, or plinth, of their houses by four feet to protect them from the flood waters. A few other households, after seeing the benefits of such raised plinths, in turn made their own investments to raise the plinths of their houses.
Among the CFACT activities was a press conference promoted as ?an opportunity for journalists to balance their coverage of COP16 by listening to all points of view.? Very few reporters, however, bothered to show up ? let alone balance their coverage. The event included talks from several ?skeptical? experts including Lord Christopher Monckton, the chief policy adviser to the Science and Public Policy Institute and science-policy advisor for Margaret Thatcher when she was British Prime Minister. ?I think the world is in danger of throwing away its democracy, prosperity and freedom if it carelessly accepts what seems to me unresolved science and economics,? he told the press conference. ?To try to stop this problem by cutting carbon is like King Canute trying to stop the tide .?
Arctic Sea ice extent 30% or greater (DMI)
Brian Slattery, Bryan Riley, and Nicolas D. Loris, "Sink the Jones Act: Restoring America's Competitive Advantage in Maritime-Related Industries," Heritage Foundation Backgrounder No. 2886, May 22, 2014, http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2014/05/sink-the-jones-act-restoring-americas-competitive-advantage-in-maritime-related-industries.
Minerals Council of Australia deputy chief Brendan Pearson accused Senator Brown of rank opportunism, unworthy of a serious political leader.
I received a degree from the Military Medical Academy and I became a professional army physician with a diploma from the Charles University in Prague, I am a reserve lieutenant colonel of the Czech army, and during my tenure, I have spent years in some of the highest chairs of the army's medical services, always in positions listed in tables with the track of becoming a colonel.
37 Ivo Daalder and James Goldgeier, "Global NATO," Foreign Affairs (September/October 2005). On the issue of Global NATO, see also Jose-Maria Aznar, NATO: An Alliance for Freedom, 2005; Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, "Global NATO?" Clingendael Institute (October 2004). for a Russian/CSTO reaction, Mikhail Kokyeyev, "Russia-Nato Relations: Between the Past and the Future," Russia in Global Affairs (April/June 2007).
32 EPA Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance, "Enforcement Alert," January 1999, cited in Corporate Environmental Enforcement Council, supra note 17, p. 18.
Uncertainty allows for the possibility of disaster. Something must be done even though that something might make things worse.
In the case of Goulburn recording has changed to the Airport I can not find any old daily data at this BoM site. There is monthly data for Goulburn going back to 1860 but presumably the daily data has not been entered to disk not that the public are allowed to see anyway.
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It also said the panel had purposely emphasised the negative impacts of climate change and made "substantive findings" based on little proof.
It is clear that we're not on track in the battle against climate change. Despite ongoing efforts to cut back greenhouse gases, we are still on a path for a temperature rise much greater than the 2C maximum that nations set for themselves in Cancun last year.
2013 sixth-hottest year, confirms long-term warming: UN U.S. Dec/Jan Temperatures 3rd Coldest in 30 Years
Today's conservatives have a rendezvous with destiny. The peculiar political challenge of our timerepairing our nation's finances and avoiding national bankruptcyrequires us to reform our welfare state. This forces us to confront the tensions outlined above, and to do so in a way that reassures rather than frightens the vast American middle that has turned to us now in response to the last two years. If we seize this opportunity and act with principle and prudence, we truly can say we have met our challenge. In so doing, we truly will have "preserved for our children this, the last best hope for man on earth."
And of course, the press loved this take, for now everything was right again in the world of global warming doom-and-gloom. For example, Reuters reporter Patricia Reaney wrote:
The talk at the Energy Institute went reasonably well, although numbers were apparently down considerably on normal because the invitations had been sent out rather late in the day. I also suffered from some technical problems, which meant that I had to speak without notes. I think, however, that I gained as much in fluency as I lost in completeness, so this was not the end of the day. One disappointment was that (from the tenor of the questions at least) most of the audience were probably already on the right side of the debate, so I'm not sure how many were persuaded by my words. Nevertheless, having not spoken in public for the best part of twenty years, I was quite pleased with the way the whole thing went.
The Cancun talks seek to produce decisions on establishing a "green fund" to help poorer nations rein in greenhouse gases and to adapt their economies and infrastructure to a changing climate; an agreement making it easier for developing nations to obtain patented green technology from advanced nations; and pinning down more elements of a system for compensating developing countries for protecting their forests.
A paper published today in Climate of the Past finds another non-hockey-stick in Romania, with temperatures higher for hundreds of years during the mid-Holocene Climate Optimum, Roman Warm Period, and Medieval Warm Period in comparison to the end of the record in the mid-20th century.
As the air's CO 2 concentration continues to increase, it will likely boost rates of net photosynthesis in nearly all plant species, including white clover and perennial ryegrass. These increases in photosynthesis, in turn, will likely lead to greater root production and enhanced exudation of organic compounds belowground into the soil rhizosphere, which should stimulate the growth and productivity of microbial organisms living there. The present study demonstrated that this reasoning is indeed correct: greater microbial populations existed under CO 2 -enriched plots of white clover and perennial ryegrass than under ambiently-grown plots. Consequently, one would expect earth's plants to increase their productivity even more with greater microbial populations existing beneath them, as bacterial microbes often help to make certain soil nutrients more available to plants.
Finding #1: "The model fails to simulate the asymmetry of the wintertime circulation anomalies over the WNP between El Nio and La Nia." Finding #2: "The simulated anomalous cyclone over the WNP (WNPAC) associated with La Nia is generally symmetric about the WNPAC associated with El Nio, rather than shifted westward as that in the observation." Finding #3: "Simulated La Nia events decay much faster than observed." Finding #4: "Owing to biases in the mean state, the precipitation anomalies over East Asia, especially those of the Meiyu rain belt, are much weaker than that in the observation." What it means
One way to do this is by injecting fine sulfur particles or other reflective aerosols into the upper atmosphere to reflect incoming radiation. Another way is to spray clouds with salt water to increase their reflectance.
the results obtained from this study suggest that the tropical ocean does indeed influence the atmospheric patterns over Europe and the Mediterranean.
Homeopathy is based on the principles of like-cures-like and ultra-dilutions. The first says substances that can cause symptoms can be used in diluted form to treat the same symptom in an illness, and the second says the more dilute a substance is, the more potent it is.
Please explain why sea levels during the last interglacial were 31 feet higher than the present, and Greenland 8 degrees C warmer than the present, without anthropogenic forcing. What evidence suggests the current interglacial is any different? http://hockeyschtick.blogspot.com/2013/08/new-paper-finds-sea-levels-rose.html
Now the UK Met Office is saying that such slowing for a decade or so has been seen in the past in observations and is simulated in climate models, where they are temporary events. There are no decade-long pauses in projected global surface temperatures in Figure 2, for scenarios A2, A1B or B2. Global surface temperatures are, however, responding similarly to the Constant Composition Commitment, which according to the IPCC means greenhouse gas concentrations are fixed at year 2000 levels. Yet greenhouse gas concentrations continue to climb.
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The president's speech seems to imply that "energy efficiency" is somehow free. That is, that it's easy to achieve reductions in energy use without causing a reduction in the benefits from energy use. Were that the case, one wonders why market forces do not lead to such outcomes themselves. In reality, energy efficiency requires the substitution of capital, or the acceptance of less safety and comfort, or other adjustments, the net virtues of which government officials and experts simply are not in the best positions to evaluate. There is also the "rebound" effect: if vehicles and appliances use less energy per unit of output, a natural market response is to use more of them and to use them more intensively. The net result: far less energy savings than usually are asserted, and thus a lower economic return to the investments made in efficiency.
the 11 Patriots footballs measured by the officials at halftime did not all start the game at or near the same pressure
Third, why rush? Kyoto apologists warn that we must take action now, lest the buildup of greenhouse gases wreak irreversible havoc on nature s delicate balances. Yet precisely because carbon dioxide emissions may linger in the atmosphere for a century or longer, it makes no practical difference in the long run whether carbon withdrawal policies are implemented now or a decade or more from now. Indeed, according to climate modeler Thomas Wigley, delaying action until 2020 would yield only 0.2oC additional warming in the year 2100.16 That s too small a difference to affect any discernible human or environmental interest.
Speaking of fuel poverty, nowhere are people living in more substandard conditions than Africa plagued by malaria and inadequate medical care, most don't have indoor plumbing and even fewer have electricity. Shellenberger and Nordhous accuse the environmental movement of offering "the global poor not what they wantcheap electricitybut more of what they don't want, namely intermittent and expensive power" which "offers the poor no path to the kinds of high-energy lifestyles Western environmentalists take for granted."
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Last week was good for environmentalists, and perhaps even for the environment. President Obama doubled down on his effort to increase the likelihood of the success of the 2015 UN climate change conference in Paris, claiming the U.S. has "a special responsibility to lead. That's what great nations do." He took the occasion of the UN meetings in New York to put the heat on China, the world's largest polluter, to match the steps the U.S. is taking to reduce its CO2 emissions. The president is relying on executive orders to by-pass Congress and put in place stricter control of power plant emissions. He must believe that if he has the power to order such reductions without consulting Congress, surely the leaders of the somewhat less democratic Chinese regime can rely on similar fiats. He also believes that if the world's two largest emitters agree on a program to reduce these greenhouse gasses, the third, fourth, and fifth largest polluters will sign on to that program.
As time progresses and paleoclimatic studies increase in both number and sophistication, ever more evidence is accumulating for the global reality of the solar-induced millennial-scale oscillation of climate that pervades both glacial and interglacial periods alike. In this specific instance, Desprat et al . report that "a millennial-scale climatic cyclicity over the last 3000 years is detected for the first time in NW Iberia paralleling global climatic changes recorded in North Atlantic marine records (Bond et al ., 1997; Bianchi and McCave, 1999; Chapman and Shackelton, 2000)." The establishment of the Modern Warm Period over the course of the past century is consequently seen to be nothing more than the most recent manifestation of this ever-recurring phenomenon and, hence, is likely totally unrelated to the concurrent historical increase in the air's CO 2 content. References
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One might conclude that a lot of different and contradicting assumptions go into the simulations of Earths climate. There certainly is little agreement among modeling groups about how sunlight impacted the energy imbalance in the past or might impact it in the future.
This is on par with the official opening video for the COP15 meeting in Copenhagen -- full of nightmare visions of a child caught in a global-warming-produced catastrophe - producing earthquakes, no less. (It's very well-produced, of course.)
Mann's testimony was a mixture of ad hominem attacks, appeals to authority, and irrelevant points. He claimed that his critics had no professional expertise in paleoclimatology and didn't know what they were talking about. He did not attempt to refute the numerous paleoclimatological studies which Soon et al's article reviews. The preponderance of these studies suggest that the few data sets that Mann chose to show that global temperatures were steady from 1000 to 1900 are unusually unresponsive to temperature changes and must be considered outliers.
According to the Los Angeles Times (April 2, 2002), "The bill, AB 1058, by first-term Assemblywoman Fran Pavely (D-Agoura Hills), would require the state Air Resources Board to adopt regulations by 2005 that would reduce tailpipe emissions of carbon dioxide from passenger cars and light trucks and other noncommercial motor vehicles.
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In subsequent months, however, 140 countries declared their endorsement of the accord, and 85 of them made specific pledges for reducing carbon emissions, or at least limited their growth, by 2020.
Despite being treated like 17th century "witches," many scientists are reexamining the evidence and reversing their positionseven calling their previous views: "quite a big mistake."
Re-read the first part of Kerrys explanation. Kerry is saying that even ifthe Democratic leadership does not hold avoteon cap-and-trade before the November elections,fearing the wrath of the electorate,the greenhouse gangmight stillenact cap-and-tradeafter the elections, when voters could no longer hold them accountable.
The abuses and intolerance are becoming broader, deeper, more frightening by the day: from Christendom to Islam and Climate Orthodoxy; from universities to the Congress, Vatican, EU and United Nations.
The Hill reported today that President Obama has not wavered in his commitment to reducing carbon dioxide levels and fighting man-made climate change:
In 2010, Foley wrote an essay Becoming a Climate Pragmatist . Foley is a very interesting voice on climate change.
Severe weather is likely today and tomorrow with moderate risks both days.
Any layman can learn and understand these principles - from which it is clear thatthere is no such thing as man-made Global Warming there never has been and nevercan be. Far from "greenhouse gases" leading to Global Warming, precisely theopposite is true without these gases we would all be fried to a cinder!
Can anyone believe that a temperature effect by 2100 measured in ten-thousandths of a degree, or sea-level effects measured in thousandths of a centimeter, could yield over $100 billion in net economic benefits? How is that possible?
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REALITY IS DIFFERENT THAN THE HYPOTHESES/SUPPOSITIONS/ASSUMPTIONS