Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
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He also observed that EPA Director Lisa Jackson herself has acknowledged the Clean Air Act "is not specifically designed to address greenhouse gases." The House-passed Waxman-Markey did, but it died with Senate inaction and the election of a new Congress, an election in which it was an issue. Along with Obama-Care, the American people also rejected the idea of taxing and regulating carbon dioxide.
In short, they are repeating all of their prior explanations for 40 years of political defeat. People are voting their pocketbooks, our voters won't vote unless they have something to vote for, and outside interests are once more conspiring to distract the voters with phony issues and slick ads. This, then, is the decisive point: Are liberal progressives right about recent American electoral history? Or do American voters fundamentally not want what liberal progressives have to offer?
The man who effectively shapes world policy on climate change was born in 1940 in a hill station in northern India.
So much for the good news. As always in the case of energy resources, politics trumps economics or, at minimum, seriously affects economic outcomes. In Mexico, oil is regarded as the national patrimony, not to be plundered (i.e., developed) by foreigners. In much of the Middle East, oil is regarded as a "weapon," to be unsheathed if nasty consuming countries need a lesson in the vulnerability of their economies to supply shortages and price spikes. In Russia, natural gas is a tool to be used in the reconstruction of something approximating the Soviet Union or Russian Empire. Here in America, administration policy towards oil and gas is affected by the conviction that fossil fuels are responsible for climate change, and must be phased out as the transition to renewables is completed. Everywhere and always, oil and politics inevitably mix.
I also askedhow much the biological effects of oceanic nutrient enrichment from melting icebergs and ice shelves he had discussed might affect the results of model-projections he had told us were based only on the physics. He admitted this was a good question and that uncertainty was high. Increased nutrients (particularly iron), lead to drawdown of co2 by plankton and the permanent removal of co2 in the formation of their shell which sink to the ocean bed when plankton die.
As the Climate Institutes report notes in small print, the Swedish carbon price is levied primarily on oil, coal, natural gas and petrol.
In a letter to Reverend Williams, CEI Senior Fellow Iain Murray, who was baptized and raised in the Anglican Church, writes, "There is a terrible opportunity cost to drastic action to reduce climate change, and that cost would likely weigh heavier on the world's poor than the effects of global warming itself."
Escaping climate change: one if by land, two if by sea? No, according to recent results.
State's response is also somewhat unbelievable because the document that fell into my hands showed State's date-stamp, the signature of a State Department official and the names of persons still living along with 30 pages of detailed instructions on how to change the IPCC's science document and the summary for policymakers.
In my private election-prediction memo two years ago, I wrote the following words: "Democrats are split between progressives, who seek a radical and swift move to the economic left, and centrists, who want to re-regulate and "spread the wealth around' but nowhere near the degree of the progressives. . . . Who will win these intra-party fights? We don't know, and which faction wins and to what extent will largely determine both the health of our nation and the possibility of a quick Republican resurgence."
Power companies are considering new nukes in part because federal regulations have changed for the better over the past few years. Today, companies can apply to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) for a single license to build and operate a plant, an improvement over the old two-step process. Companies also can choose from standard designs approved by the agency.
To put it fairly but bluntly, the global-warming alarmists have relied on a pathetic version of science in which computer models take precedence over data, and numerical averages of computer outputs are believed to be able to predict the future climate.
54: Roy Spencer has been wrong many times. 55: In research, we are usually wrong with our initial opinions. 55: It is much easier to be wrong than right.
Steve McIntyre is auditing Mann?s libel case. He has 3 recent posts:
Other researchers used actual historical (real-world) data for land use, atmospheric CO2 concentration, nitrogen deposition, fertilization, ozone levels, rainfall and climate combined with their knowledge of plant physiology and growth to develop a computer model that simulates plant growth responses for grasslands, forests, wetlands and agriculture in the southern United States from 1895 to 2007. They determined that net primary productivity improved by an average of 27% during this 112-year period, with most of the increased growth occurring after 1950, when carbon dioxide levels rose the most, from 310 ppm in 1950 to 395 ppm in 2007.
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Typically the argument says growth may have been welcome in the past, but the time has come when the costs outweigh the benefits. America is reaching the stage, so the argument goes, where it is bumping against the limits to growth.
In the same period, a boom in the production of shale gas through the use of hydraulic fracturing technology saw a rapid switch from coal fired electricity production to gas burning.
The Met Office says the 15-year standstill is not unusual. This is true but again the Met Office is being economical with the truth. The IPCC concluded that the period 1960-80 marked the start of mankinds domination of the Earths climate via greenhouse gas forcing. The period before 1960-80 the IPCC regarded as being solely due to natural factors. In the pre 1960-80 period there was a standstill between 1940-80. In the post 1960-80 period there was warming between 1980 96 and a standstill thereafter. The mankind-dominated era has only one standstill, which is becoming the dominant global climatic feature of this era.
Why should you be interested? The hypothesis of manmade global warming depends on manmade greenhouse gases being the cause of the recent warming. But the sea surface temperature record indicates El Nio and La Nia events are responsible for the warming of global sea surface temperature anomalies over the past 32 years, not manmade greenhouse gases. Scroll back up to the discussion of the East Pacific versus the Rest of the World. Ive searched sea surface temperature records for more than 4 years, and I can find no evidence of an anthropogenic greenhouse gas signal. That is, the warming of the global oceans has been caused by Mother Nature, not anthropogenic greenhouse gases.
"I firmly believe that we will need 20 to 30 new plants by 2030 if we are to have any hope of addressing climate change and en suring our future energy security," said John Rowe, CEO of Exelon, in a speech delivered in May.
"Somalia was judged the most corrupt country, followed by Myanmar and Afghanistan at joint second-worst and then by Iraq, in the Berlin-based watchdog TI's annual corruption perceptions index (CPI)."
Now, as an aside, the term "carbon" (or "carbon pollution") is political propaganda, a rhetorical device designed to assume the answer to the underlying policy question even as it demonstrates the user's moral superiority to him/herself, to the given audience, and to the larger community of the right-thinking. Carbon dioxide, a colorless, odorless greenhouse gas, is not "carbon," which is soot, or particulates in the language of environmental policy. Not only is carbon dioxide not carbon, it is not a "pollutant," as some minimum atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide is necessary for life itself.
The Cooler Heads Coalition is sponsoring a science briefing for congressional staff and media on Friday, November 5, at noon, featuring University of Virginia climatologist Patrick Michaels on "Why We Shouldn't Sweat Global Warming." The briefing will be held in Room 366, Dirksen Senate Office Building. Lunch will be served. For further information contact Myron Ebell or Paul Georgia at (202) 331-1010.
Angela Merkel can't be charmed and she lacks the inner compass for ideas that Thatcher used to have. Moreover, it seems that she hasn't lived in communism: at least, she has learned nothing from that era.
Maunder Minimum of sun spots caused Little Ice Age that occurred from the 16th to the 19th centuries.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and Im not sure about the former.
Developing from an improved observational system the empirical information and theoretical knowledge needed to assess adaptation options.
This effort has apparently been conducted with participation thereby direct assistance and enabling by the Obama White House which, shortly after taking office, appointed Holdren's office to the lead role on IPCC work from the Department of Commerce. The plan to secretly create a FOIA-free zone was then implemented.
This is why climate mitigation makes no economic sense: the cure costs more than the disease.
If you were to scroll up to Figures 9, 6 and 4, youd note that the scales of the anomaly graphs are very different for the three components of the top-of-the-atmosphere energy imbalance. That is, the differences in the simulated TOA outgoing shortwave radiation are so great that the y-axis on Figure 6 spans 12 watts/m^2, while the y-axis for TOA incident shortwave radiation anomalies in Figure 4 only spans 0.7 watts/m^2. To put those metrics into perspective, for Animation 1, Ive used a common scale for the spaghetti graphs of the model outputs. And to help minimize the model noise and show the differences between the models, Ive smoothed them all with 5-year running-average filters.
5. Richard Lindzen, "Climate Alarm: Where Does It Comes From?" remarks to the George C. Marshall Institute, December 1, 2004, available at http://www.marshall.org/article.php?id=264.
Climate Change. Further I cannot find a physical link between CO 2 and climate change. Even when CO 2 is increasing and climate is relatively steady, unchanging, 1900 2014. Ice ages last about 100,000 years, between warm periods of 20,000 years. The cycle period is about 120,000 years, caused by planetary motion of solar system. Lucy walked Ethiopia around 3.6 million years ago, so humans have survived >3,600,000/120,000 = >30 cycles already, by evolution and adaptation. Since current warm period began about 18,000 years ago, keep your sweater handy. CO 2 and renewables wont help much, fossil fuels combustion and nuclear power will.
Figure 1 below tells us an interesting story about the climate of the past 800,000 years including (a) the most recent 10,000 years have generally witnessed a warming (warmer conditions are towards the right, cooler towards the left), (b) cold periods dominate the last 800,000 years, (c) climate can change rapidly, and (d) there are many periods in the past much warmer than what we have there today.
My own personal reaction to the rather lengthy reviews (12 pages worth) is that all of the reviewers rejected the idea that IPCC model projections could be compared in such a way that led to the conclusion that indicate cause for concern regarding the consistency between climate model projections and observed climate behavior under conditions of increasing anthropogenic greenhouse-gas emissions.
Copenhagen climate change talks must fail, says top scientist
Furthermore, the model was run on the basis of data from the discredited SRES scenarios of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that predict countries such as Zimbabwe, Vanuatu and North Korea overtaking the USA in per capita income by 2100. There was no discussion of the appropriateness or robustness of these data choices in the published paper.
This is Page 8 & 9 The Skeptics Handbook II. 20 page PDF
But not only is science-led politics difficult, if not impossible, it is also potentially dangerous. Sarewitz concludes:
EPA has perverted the Clean Air Act by declaring carbon dioxide a pollutant, despite the plain intent of the laws authors to exclude such naturally occurring gases, and despite major flaws in the science used to claim carbon dioxide endangers human health.
The danger in EPAs authority to regulate GHGs is amplified by the fact that EPAs source of regulatory authority is the CAA. To trigger regulation under the CAA, EPA must make a finding that GHGs may reasonably be anticipated to cause or contribute to the endangerment of public health or welfare. We learned again from yesterdays decision what a permissive standard this is. At oral argument, one of Judge Sentelles first statements to petitioners counsel was something to the effect of I hope youre not going to ask us to make a judgment on the science. Personally, I am a climate skeptic I have read through the climategate emails and have been appalled. But the courts continue to show reluctance to truly engage EPAs science findings (or even to allocate sufficient words to adequately brief these highly technical issues).
Shell fish grow in water with varying pH, yet we seem to look at decreasing the mythical sea pH is by 0.1 standard unit is supposed to be very damaging. A number of the studies tend to look at one variable, pH, and ignore others, like pollution. Are they saying that for all the ranting and raving about water quality in the Chesapeake Bay, that all we need to do is raid the pH?
Here is an approximate, preliminary look at the winter for the 90 days ending february 26, 2011. December/January was the coldest in Florida (winter vegetables) history and remember the frosts and freezes in California and south Texas.
Climate scientists have determined that time began in 1979, and feel verycomfortable starting most of their trend lines in that year. When generating global warming propaganda, itis important to cherry pick the coldest year for starting your trend.
Oh, one more thing. I was surprised to learn from a "progressive" blog, corroborated by a renowned "scientist", that the releases were part of a coordinated campaign receiving vast amounts of secret funding from shady energy industry groups.
Fortunately, we have windmills in Ireland producing almost no electricity to compensate.
Marc started by making his point that many news stories about global warming science apply uneven labels to the advocates vs. the skeptics of catastrophic global warming theory, and that some more marginal media outlets have gone much farther, explicitly comparing climate skeptics to Holocaust deniers. Despite Marc mentioning it repeatedly, no one on the panel would comment on whether they thought such an outrageous comparison was justified.
A news story on heat waves has appeared the Washington Post entitled More Frequent Heat Waves Linked to Global Warming U.S. and European Researchers Call Long Hot Spells Likely . Excerpts from the article on August 4, 2006 by Juliet Eilperin, Post Staff Writer, are,
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It takes a further act of faith to think that ocean temperature and icecap melting are in any way related to carbon dioxide.
Should we trust that future generations will be smart, well-equipped human beings capable of taking care of themselves?
Will the Hadley Centre attempt to flatten out the appearance of a 1943/44 and/or 1944/45 El Nino in the Global SST data. That rise and fall also appears in the COADS and MOHMAT Marine Air Temperature datasets, and, as illustrated above, in the CRUTEM3 LST data. Global Ocean Cloud Cover and Wind Speed datasets also indicate anomalous variations during the war years, and cloud cover and wind speed are major drivers of SST. Refer to my posts The Large 1945 SST Discontinuity Also Appears in Cloud Cover and Marine Air Temperature Data and Part 2 of The Large SST Discontinuity Also Appears in Cloud Cover and Marine Air Temperature Data .
Nonetheless, virtually every major national environmental organization continues to reject nuclear energy, even after four leading climate scientists wrote them an open letter last fall, imploring them to embrace the technology as a key climate solution. Together with catastrophic rhetoric, the rejection of technologies like nuclear and natural gas by environmental groups is most likely feeding the perception among many that climate change is being exaggerated. After all, if climate change is a planetary emergency, why take nuclear and natural gas off the table?
Science will release Dr. Andrew Dessler's new paper on cloud feedback at 2 PM (EST) on Thursday and Dr. Roy Spencer will release a statement at CFACT's press conference which raises serious questions about the study and details its flaws. "Andy Dessler's study will not stand hard scrutiny. COP16 delegates worried about the ongoing credibility problems of climate modeling will find no solace in Dessler's work," Spencer said.
such opportunities as access to credit, the establishment of systems of identification, the creation of systems for credit and insurance information, the provision for housing and infrastructure, the issue of shares, the mortgage of property and a host of other economic activities that drive a modern market economy.
As every individual, therefore, endeavors as much as he can both to employ capital in support of domestic industry, and so to direct that industry that its produce may be of the greatest value; everyindividual necessarily labors to render the annual revenue of the society as great as he can. He generally, indeed, neither intends to promote the public interest, nor knows how much he is promoting it.
It seems the problem is her injury occurred in CA and she's now in MO. The doctors in MO don't want to see her due to the paperwork and issues required under the CA laws.
See the original post for explanation of the methodology and the exact programs driving these lines.
The Clinton-Gore administration wants more GEF funding to implement the Kyoto Protocol. The Senate made it clear that it will not ratify the protocol unless developing countries participate. Funding of the GEF allows the administration to claim developing countries are participating by accepting money from the American taxpayer.
There is value in measuring how much methane is escaping into the atmosphere, since doing so allows us to identify leaks in pipelines and flawed equipment that reduce efficiency as well as potentially damaging the environment. But using an inaccurate portrayal of methane emissions as a reason to push for a ban on fracking would be bad public policy. We need the energy provided by natural gas and oil, as renewable sources cannot meet that demand.
America depends on abundant, reliable, affordable energy 85% of it hydrocarbons. C oal generates half of all US electricity, and up to 90% in its manufacturing heartland versus 1% from wind and solar. Newfound natural gas supplies promise a sea change in US energy supplies and electricity generation. However, oil still powers transportation, shipping and petrochemicals and in 2010 the United States exported $337 billion to import 61% of this precious liquid fuel.
By Michael Patrick Leahhy, Breitbart, Aug 12, 2015
Malaria and yellow fever were once common in non-tropical regions. During the Little Ice Age when it was much cooler than it is today, malaria was still a major problem in Europe.33 Earlier in this century, the Soviet Union, not known for its balmy weather, experienced a major malaria epidemic. At the same time, Alaska reported many malaria cases.
The return of China alone would be enough to make the West "live in interesting times." To make things even more interesting, Islam too is back, this time in the form of a totalitarianism which manages to combine an ideological comprehensiveness (Salafism) unseen since Communism and an existential nihilism (jihadism) worthy of Nazism. A generation ago, the post-Vatican II Catholic world finally espoused the 20th century, and the Church went on to play a critical role in the collapse of communism; meanwhile, under the increasing influence of Wahhabism, the Muslim world was going in the opposite direction, and this great leap backward brought them back to the 14th century.40 If the Saudi caliphate does not soon undertake its own Vatican II, chances are the Muslim world will never make it back to the 21st century.
Plants in a CO2 enriched atmosphere generally prefer warmer temperatures than those exposed to air with lower CO2, Idso said as he described a series of experiments. The doubling of the airs Co2 concentration typically boosts the optimum temperature for plant photosynthesis by several degrees centigrade and this also raises the temperature at which plants experience heat related death.
Since I know many of my readers are aware of error. Many are aware that using test with high errors is a well know trick to claim something is proven, when in fact, all one has done is failed to disprove using very little data. Since my readers know this trick, know that I know it, and know that any competent statistician is aware of this issue , I prefer to use methods that minimize error, while holding the error at a specified value.
Sandy was "unprecedented," the result of "weather on steroids," various "experts" insist. "It's global warming, stupid," intoned Bloomberg BusinessWeek. "Anyone who says there is not a change in weather patterns is denying reality," New York Governor Andrew Cuomo declared. We must protect the great NY metropolis from rising oceans, said the Washington Post. This storm should "compel all elected leaders to take immediate action" on climate change, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg pronounced.
Climate activists have no problem trying to force the people of the world to spend trillions of dollars for CO2 reductions based on the presumption that climate models are accurate. But when it comes to ozone, NRDC pleads uncertainty and then chooses increases in future ozone-forming emissions that are grossly at odds with any plausible future scenario. If anything, the statement that "there are no reliable estimates ... extending to the mid-21st Century" is far more applicable to greenhouse gas emissions and climate models' predictive skill than it is for smog-forming emissions.
They are already making great strides. Just as the President Obama promised, in the interest of ending billions of years of climate change the coal industry, which has provided 18% of America's primary fuel, is now bankrupt.
Recent news reports suggest that a new syndrome call it Climate Change Derangement Syndrome (CCDS) is on the rise.
Using data from the Energy Information Administration and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, they found that existing nuclear plants generate reliable electricity, on average, at $29.60 per megawatt-hourone million watts expended for one hour. Existing hydro, coal and natural gas arent far behind, at $34.20, $38.40 and $48.90, respectively. These figures are derived from self-reported data the government collects annually from individual generators.
Adam Smith was insistent that the economic relationships in society need no guiding and commanding hand from government. They arise quite naturally and spontaneously among people, without political orders or directives.
But that is not deterring Toyota, Honda, Ford Motor and several European carmakers from introducing new hybrid and plug-in models.