Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
A decade ago the free-market community, as well as lovers of honest journalism, lost a good friend with the passing of Warren Brookes. A similar blow has been struck recently with the untimely death of Ken Smith, deputy editorial page editor of the Washington Times. Ken, along with young journalists like Jeff Jacoby and John Stossel, did much to fill the gaping void left by Warren Brookes' death. Ken was only 44 when he succumbed to liver cancer in early July.
Now, Brand has written a new book, called Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto , in which he takes on these environmental shibboleths in a more concerted fashion. On American Public Radios Marketplace program yesterday , hostKai Ryssdal discussed the new book with Brand. Asked what prompted him to write the book, Brand said that,
Consumers could take a hit from Fed's debit card swipe fee decision:
The UAH figures do pick up the fact that Northern band is very slightly warmer than the Southern section, but seem to indicate that the GISS/GHCN surface temperature in Africa is so grossly overestimated as to be worthless. We already know that GISS temperature anomalies in the Arctic , which again are not based on anything remotely resembling a proper temperature record, are much higher than what is shown by UAH satellites. It is beginning to appear that the whole GISS Surface Temperature Record is now utterly unfit for purpose and irretrievably damaged.
6. When over-complex math is used to distort temperature trends resulting in exaggerated warming. Advocate.
"McCain said that "A cap-and-trade policy will send a signal that will be heard and welcomed all across the American economy.' This is unlikely since cap-and-trade's economic harms have been exposed and condemned by the likes of the Congressional Budget Office, the Environmental Protection Agency and renown economists such as Alan Greenspan and Arthur Laffer. Even the Clinton." administration warned of the economic harms that would be caused by cap-and-trade
So IPCC is not the only organization using WWF pamphlets as authority.
Global cap-and-trade plan for aviation CO2 moves closer: EC
This means that most (1.71/1.98 = 86%) of the upward trend in carbon dioxide since CO2 monitoring began at Mauna Loa 50 years ago could indeed be explained as a result of the warming, rather than the other way around.
EPA is determined to make our air not merely safe or healthy, but pristine, with no human pollutants. Since 1970, US cars have reduced tailpipe pollutants by 99% and coal-fired power plants have eliminated 92% of their particulate, sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions. That's still not enough, says EPA.
This undoubtedly will shock readers, but the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has a tendency to shade the truth. And only in one direction. It seems ... drumroll, please! ... that the member governments have their own agendas and aren't above lying to the people to achieve their ends.
Most of the Mussolini fans of the 1920s didn't really want a dictatorship in America, and any fair reader of Thomas Friedman's oeuvre knows that he doesn't want an authoritarian government here either; the word limit of his column apparently left him no space to regret the Chinese one-party autocracy's Internet censorship, forced sterilizations, imprisonment of political dissenters, and the like.
terms about the investment and aid resources Saudi Arabia and China were both
Alex Cull on April 26, 2015 at 2:42 pm
Junk ad hoc climate science has no rules other than confirmation bias, and keeping the funding stream alive.
The four Chinese researchers report that elevated CO 2 by itself "did not significantly affect net photosynthetic rate, stomatal conductance, chlorophyll content, the maximum quantum yield of photosystem II, or the effective quantum yield of photosystem II electron transport after 90 days of gas exposure." But they did find that it increased growth . Elevated O 3 by itself, on the other hand, "decreased growth, net photosynthetic rate and stomatal conductance after 90 days of exposure," but they say that "its negative effects were alleviated by elevated CO 2 ."
The latest UN IPCC report deleted all references to this temperature standstill from the Summary for Policy Makers, and eliminated an IPCC graph that revealed how every single climate model predicted that average global temperatures would be up to 1.6 F higher than they actually were over the past 22 years. IPCC bureaucrats politicized the science to the point of making their report fraudulent.
And there were lots of similar examples. In the Summary for Policy Makers, the scientists had said ???It is extremely likely that more than half of the observed increase in global average surface temperature from 1951 to 2010 was caused by the anthropogenic increase in greenhouse gas concentrations and other anthropogenic forcings together.?? The politicians did not like this, so they added a juicy version ???It is extremely likely that human influence has been the dominant cause of the observed warming since the mid-20th century.?? Suddenly ???more than half?? had morphed into ???dominant cause.?? That way, no one might be left with the idea that the scientists had actually said there was a reasonable chance that quite a lot of the warming was entirely natural.
We may reasonably wonder why they feel compelled to endorse this view. The IPCC??s position in its Summary for Policymakers from their Fourth Assessment (2007) is weaker, and simply points out that most warming of the past 50 years or so is due to man??s emissions. It is sometimes claimed that the IPCC is 90% confident of this claim, but there is no known statistical basis for this claimit??s purely subjective. The IPCC also claims that observations of globally averaged temperature anomaly are also consistent with computer model predictions of warming.
"The Treasury will issue net medium- and long-term debt of 47.2 billion euros ($62.04 billion) in 2011, down from 62.1 billion in 2010, the Economy Ministry said on Wednesday."
paper shows that London and Vienna (and also New York) are not affected in the
By August 23rd, 2006, we have seen 4 storms: Alberto, Beryl, Chris, Debby. Neither of them has been a hurricane - not even a small hurricane. Debby is the first one that at least has a chance to become a minimal hurricane on Sunday or so - but be sure that it won't become one. 2006 is not only milder than 2005 but also than 2004, 2003, and most other years. Right now, in the middle of the season, 2006 is below the average. December 2006 update : Indeed, it seems that the number of tropical storms (9) as well as hurricanes (5) as well as (minimal) major hurricanes (2) will stay below the average of 1950-2000. The season officially ended at the end of November. The absence of any tropical storms from the early October can be partially explained by a new El Nino.
Replacing this power generation with wind and solar will disrupt grid reliability, risk brownouts and blackouts, and bankrupt many businesses, families, and communities.
Ideally, because were interested in the additional variations of the North Atlantic sea surface temperatures above and beyond the rest of the global oceans, those are the two datasets that should be used to determine the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation. That is, the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation should be calculated as the North Atlantic data minus the data for the rest of the global oceans. Again, for long-term evaluation, it presents the problem when there is little source data for the rest of the global oceans (in the early part of the datasets), but at least were not subtracting a portion of the North Atlantic data from the North Atlantic data.
The switch seemed to be sound strategy. ExxonMobil didn't agree.
Abraham says I displayed two graphs, both citing NOAA as the source, showing the downward global mean surface temperature trend since 2001, but by an elaborate point-by-point comparison he shows that the two graphs are slightly different from one another. Why, he asks, can't I even make sure that my own data agree with themselves? His implication is that presenting temperature data is something that laymen really can't be expected to get right.
And you thought K Street was bad? Read the whole thing.
Before war broke out in South Sudan in 2013, there was some stability and a lot of nongovernmental organizations, companies like Ford Motor Company, private investors and other people arrived to do business. Many thought they could earn good profits, and some succeeded.
His inelegant attempt to have it both ways on the issue was on stark display last spring during the Yemen crisis, when he tried but failed to twist the facts to fit his fierce his fierce opposition to LNG exports should be blocked. "These natural gas supply problems highlight the importance of developing the domestic infrastructure that would allow all Americans to benefit from the low-price, abundant and secure supplies of natural gas now being produced in the United States," he wrote to DOE chief Chu in an extended rant against LNG exports. "I believe that using our domestically produced natural gas here in America to reduce our dependence on foreign supplies should take precedence over any plans to export our natural gas,"
There are many alternative forms of energy that people talk about that may be interesting. But they are not consequential on the scale that will be needed, and they may never have a significant impact on the energy balance. To the extent that people focus too much on thatfor example, on solar or wind, even though they are not economicwhat they are doing is diverting attention from the real issues.
Within the limit of chronological uncertainties, some (but not all) of these cooling events at Moose Lake coincide with periods of reduced solar irradiance, such as the solar minima centered on the middle and late LIA (250 and 100 cal BP), 1400 cal BP, and 3400 cal BP (Steinhilber et al., 2009).
Fracking, not Obama policies, responsible for carbon dioxide decline Antarctic glacier trends show nature's influence, not man's France may scrap carbon tax plan Who needs the Clean Power Plan? UK, other European governments back coal
Ethanol Comes Under Fire for Rising Food Prices
"Hurricane Matthew, a record-shattering storm that is unusual for October, is a reminder of climate change's potential to turn seasonal weather events into extreme, year-round threats," echoed Huffington Post reporter Lydia O'Connor.
But is the Pause perhaps caused by the fact that CO2 emissions have not been rising anything like as fast as the IPCCs business-as-usual Scenario A prediction in 1990? No: CO2 emissions have risen rather above the Scenario-A prediction (Fig. T3).
I heard that Zichichi has links with the Vatican. A number of other greenhouse
Under Bill Clinton's leadership in the 1990s, the Democratic Party tried to appeal to culturally conservative white working-class voters without abandoning its liberal convictions. During the middle of the George W. Bush administration, Democrats revived that approach, running candidates opposed to abortion and gun control in some rural districts.
All over the world, poor people are discovering the blessings of bottom-up capitalism.
Critics of the article entirely ignored its equally accurate statement that there is mounting evidence the Arctic sea ice retreat has in the past been cyclical: there were huge melts in the 1920s, followed by later advances.
Obama Administration Declares Green War on India
Martin won't allow Canadian troops into Iraq to support a post-war fledgling democracy, but he'll send them into Sudan to prop up a post-democratic dictatorship in Canada. So, get out your scorecards. Now that Buzz Hargrove is Finance Motel Minister, and Kilgour is in charge of Foreign Affairs, Chuck Cadman should step up and take aim at the Defense portfolio. If the independant MP from British Columbia is a clever scamp, he'll announce to waiting reporters that he can support the Paul Martin Liberals - if he reverses the government's position on Canadian participation in Ballistic Missile Defense.
Washington sea level data. Click image to start animation in a new window.
The second part of their global warming definition is that it ?refers to the idea that the world?s average temperature ?may be increasing more in the future.?
After Man Us shutout yesterday by the Canaries, it would be nice to see Berbatov send Fergie another thank you note for releasing him from the coal mine.
Thanks to Anthony, Sue and many others who helped out in Newcastle. On behalf of David Stockwell, David Archibald, and myself, I thank you for your hospitality and efforts.
Many thanks for your very kind comments. Not too much harm was done at Copenhagen. The truth is emerging now, and it will prevail. Christmas morn
Ferguson concluded that Big Green is "not about to allow the Environmental Protection Agency to try measuring the results of spending billions in mitigation money, because the results are negligible if they exist at all."
If that turns out to be true, then the actual sensitivity to CO2 doubling would be far less than the 2C to 5C or more projected by the IPCC. Indeed it could be 0.5C, or even less. As current CO2 levels are about 390 ppmv we are about 40% to a doubling from historic 280 ppmv levels, the actual temperature rise due to the human component of AGW could be 0.2C.
Cinema audiences will learn more about the topic through a panel discussion with welcoming remarks by Congressman Lamar Smith (R-TX), Chairman of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee, headlined by Governor Sarah Palin, 2008 Republican Vice Presidential Candidate and 9th Governor of Alaska, moderated by Brent Bozell, Founder and President of the Media Research Center and will also include other notable experts including renowned climatologist Dr. David Legates and a special appearance by Emmy Award-winning educator Bill Nye the Science Guy. This riveting discussion will focus on climate change and issues brought up during the event.
Finally, the union could find itself weakened by internal factionalism. Thus far, 1199 has been able to rely on the loyalty of its members, but the history of organized labor suggests that rapid growth and ideological mission creep will eventually create challenges to current union leadership. Traces of factionalism may be seen both in 1199's past history and, more recently, in the Working Families Party's decision to endorse Governor Cuomo in 2014, which met with intense opposition from many of its members.
There is clear, compelling evidence that many of the major conclusions of the IPCC, your new religions constantly-changing Holy Book, are based on evidence that has been fabricated. The hockey stick graph that purported to abolish the mediaeval warm period is just one example. So let me try to lure you away from feeble-minded, religious belief in the Church of Global Warming and back towards the use of the faculty of reason.
The reconstructions, in the words of the authors, "show clear evidence of multi-year to decadal variations in spring precipitation." Nevertheless, they report that "dry periods of 1-2 years were well distributed throughout the record" and that the same was largely true of similar wet periods. With respect to more extreme events, the period preceding the Industrial Revolution stood out. They say, for example, that "all of the wettest 5-year periods occurred prior to 1756." Likewise, the longest period of reconstructed spring drought was the four-year period 1476-79, while the single driest spring was 1746. What it means
The Global Isostatic Adjustment (GIA) is one of the biggest frauds in climate science. They add 3mm/year to sea level rise rates based on the idea that the sea floor is sinking due to glacial rebound.
A future German power market without nuclear power and significantly reduced coal-fired power capacity both according to government plans and topped with the shutdown of modern gas-fired power plants an unintended consequence of increased renewable energy integration may eventually lead to something resembling the Morgenthau Plan. Except in this scenario Germanys destruction would be implemented by the German government itself via German energy sector. --Roman Kilisek, Breaking Energy, 11 May 2015
3,200 megawatts from a 250-acre facility (1 km2 or less than mile2)
Members of Congress, especially those who claim to be fiscally conservative, should take heed of the blow against cronyism that took place this week when an avowed opponent of ethanol mandates and subsidies won the Iowa GOP caucus. Eco-cronyism isn't just bad policy. Increasingly, it is also bad politics.
Agreement signed at Panama City August 19, 2004; entered into force August 19, 2004. With attachments.
Recall the discussion of the East Pacific response to El Nio events.
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The world's boreal forests like rising carbon dioxide levels. Once again the dire warnings of the climate catastrophists have been shown to be exaggerated at best, and often just plain wrong. Rising CO 2 levels make forests grow faster, be more productive and actually use water more efficiently. Those are good things to rational people. This report also shows that when you actually measure what is happening in the environment, instead of using computer models, nature can surprise you. In other words, measure nature and real science happens. Be safe, enjoy the interglacial and stay skeptical.
The soaring prices were actually exacerbated (as the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the UN confirmed) by the diversion of much of the worlds farmland into making motor fuel, in the form of ethanol and biodiesel, for the rich to salve their green consciences. Climate policies were probably a greater contributor to the Arab Spring than climate change itself.
In summary, the reported land surface temperature trends over the land portions of the globe since 1978 are about +0.5 F/decade if measured directly, and they are around +0.3 to +0.4 F/decade if we use independent methods immune to urban heat islands. Ocean-only and land+ocean temperatures are rising, too, but at a somewhat lower rate.
Free-market watchers might be surprised to find social-welfare and high-tax states at the top of the Prosperity Index. This indeed raises more questions than it answers. For example, do the homogeneous hard-working populations of Northern Europe overcome the high tax rates in those countries? Or do these countries, in fact, encourage entrepreneurs? Sweden notably finishes just behind the United States and the United Kingdom in friendliness to entrepreneurs, and all Northern European countries have very good education systems, which may be important, too. And what of social trust among highly homogenous, small populations? Is homogeneity the huge advantage for prosperity the data seem to indicate? It is not just the small countries of Europe that do wellBotswana, which has a small, ethnically homogenous population, is the second top African performer (after South Africa). Hong Kong and Singapore, also with quite homogenous populations, do well, too.
Throwing good money after bad makes even less sensegiven theglobal financial crisis and the cutbacks Spain , Germany , France , Greece , Italy, and Ontario (Canada)have been forced to make in their FITs. Therenewable market increasingly resembles a bubble (over-investment relative to actual market demand). Yeatman cautions:
It?s not just that the quasi-religious, pseudo-scientific ?Gaia hypothesis? ? the belief, taking its name from the pagan Greek goddess of the Earth, that the sum of the parts of the Earth?s ecosystems together make up a living thing ? is popular in certain environmentalist circles.
Peer-Reviewed Study Indicates Recent Warming Is Natural
The article reports that over 90 percent of the responders agreed with the statement that mean global temperatures have risen relative to the pre-1800 levels (Question 1). But this is unremarkable. Everyone knows that in the 1700s and early 1800s the world was in the grip of the Little Ice Age, so a recovery toward normalcy alone would lead to global warming. No one I know and I know plenty of skeptics (not yet a criminal offense, I hope) has ever disputed this point. So the real surprise to me is that it wasnt 99 percentplus!
The research was based on outputs from two models, including the Hadley Center Model, which reviewers admitted during the course of the National Assessment on Climate Change performed no better than a table of random numbers in predicting past climate.
But temperatures have come down after El Nino faded, and now it looks like a La Nina is setting in. Some even expect the so-called "hiatus" in global warming to return after this year's La Nina ends.
These hidden-forces theories are always popular with the mob, which is expected, but also in the intellectual slums of the academy, which isalso expected.
Range et al. (2012) : There is no evidence of CO2-related mortalities of juvenile or adult mussels even under conditions that far exceed the worst-case scenarios for future ocean acidification.
That may be why such institutions often divest slowly, if at all, over 5 to 10 years, to maximize their profits. One is reminded of St. Augustine of Hippo's prayer: "Please let me be chaste and celibate but not yet." The "ethical" institutions selling fossil fuel stocks also need to find buyers who are willing to stand up to divestment pressure group insults and harassment. They also need to deal with hard realities.
Current global temperatures are significantly below NASA's climate model and "expert" predictions - note the dotted red line on chart.
The warming that has been estimated to have occurred in response to the buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere is somewhat greater than the observed warming.
14 For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves:
15 Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;)
It's not at all surprising that the Court drew that conclusion after petitioners assured them that mobile source provisions of the Clean Air Act (Title II) are separate from stationary source provisions (Title I).What the petitioners didn't tell the Court is that, although separate, Title I and Title II are linked especially as EPA reads the statute.
Several weeks after we submitted our contribution (included as PNASsubmission.pdf) we received the following email.
In response to a video posted by a commenter on WUWT, I noted that Parmesan continues to misrepresent her 1996 study. So I wrote, What I find most disgusting and dishonest in this 2013 video is that she still repeats her old story that her butterfly (Edith Checkerspot) had moved upwards and northwards when 1) No such thing ever happened. Only the statistical center moved because more the butterflies had been extirpated due to urban sprawl mostly in southern California and 2) she has known for at least 5 years now that populations that she reported as extinct have now returned . Thats why she refused to let me replicate her study.
PART III: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF CLIMATE SCIENCE