Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
For all their caterwauling about fossil fuels, environmental groups have resisted the expansion of the use of nuclear power that emits no so-called ?greenhouse gas? emissions. The Friends of the Earth recently declared that ?The quickest way to end our costly fossil fuel dependency is through energy efficiency and renewable power, not new (nuclear) reactors that will suck up precious investment and take years to complete.?
stuff going on is natural variability. In addition to the 4 hurricanes hitting
And that is because they couldn't use Dieldrin, an insecticide banned by the UN Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs). Dieldrin was sprayed across the path of the approaching hoppers and its persistence meant that a single spray of a thin barrier strip was enough to wipe out vast swathes of hoppers for weeks. There are alternatives, but none are anywhere near as cost-effective (on a useful lifecost basis alternatives are at least eight times as expensive), and for debt-laden cash-strapped countries of the Sahel lack of Dieldrin meant not stopping the hoppers.
Such measures include subjecting tens of thousands of previously unregulated buildings and facilities to Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) pre-construction permitting requirements, and establishing National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for greenhouse gases that even outright de-industrialization would be insufficient to attain.
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Countering his views, founding member of the Tyndall Centre professor Andrew Watkinson told delegates that 10 years was too short a period to identify weather trends and this explained the stabilisation in temperature.
The waves of the tsunami had hardly receded before environmental alarmists linked the tragedy to . . . global warming ! One newspaper, the Independent , quoted a British environmental activist saying that "here again are yet more events in the real world that are consistent with climate-change predictions." On New Year's Eve, Sir David King, Britain's chief science adviser and top climate-change fanatic, told the BBC, "What is happening in the Indian Ocean underlines the importance of the Earth's system to our ability to live safely. And what we are talking about in terms of climate change is something that is really driven by our own use of fossil fuels." It was almost as if environmentalists were trying to vindicate Michael Crichton's scenario in State of Fear, where eco-terrorists attempt to start a tsunami in the Pacific to scare people about global warming.
Mann accepts that some of the measurements he used do not directly represent temperature change. His argument is that, for instance, coral records showing rainfall records in the Pacific are proxies for El Nino cycles and so for changes in ocean temperature. Jacoby is not convinced??
Jack Spencer, "Capability, Not Politics, Should Drive DOD Energy Research," Heritage Foundation WebMemo No. 3299, June 22, 2011, http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2011/06/capability-not-politics-should-drive-dod-energy-research.
(5) When dissenting opinions are excluded from the relevant peer-reviewed literature not because of weak evidence or bad arguments but as part of a strategy to marginalize dissent.
The AP article points out Obama had little to do with the fracking boom, except to be slow to regulate fracking.
He challenged DeFazio, who initially figured he would have a cakewalk against this political neophyte. But Robinson raised $1.3 million from over 5,000 individual donors (against DeFazio's $1.5 million from special interests, MoveOn.org and other contributors), gave numerous speeches and ran a highly effective campaign. With polls showing his lead narrowing, an increasingly desperate DeFazio struck back.
Maumbury Rings in Dorset (later reused as a Roman amphitheatre and then a Civil War fort).
High/Low: Is There Now Reasonable Agreement on the Costs and Benefits of Waxman-Markey?
From Andrew Bolt at Australia??s Herald Sun below, some sharp evidence in a new paper that the ???coral bleaching?? scare of the Great Barrier Reef is unfounded and mostly made up.
Tragedies happen, and my daughter and her family are happy just to be alive. Their losses and those of hundreds of thousands of other innocents deserve mourning, prayer and respect.
The individual member of the social community often receives his information via visual, symbolic channels.
Thus, the photo-op still happened. The Washington Independent reported that, "espite steady, driving rain," the Lafayette Park protest was "more than twice as large as the February 27 protests at the same site." Well over 1,000 people attended (however, the event ended early when some rogue protester lobbed a few tea bags onto the White House lawn, which sent the Secret Service scrambling).
McChrystal amplified his views through press leaks and public remarks,
A new study suggests that some coral reefs could be protected from bleaching by a natural ocean thermostat that regulates sea surface temperatures in the western pacific warm pool.
Cosmic rays are energetic particles that originate in space and our sun and collide with particles as they zip through our atmosphere. While they come from all directions in space, and the origination of many of these cosmic rays is unknown, they has recently been shown that a larger percentage emanate from specific deep space sources . Cosmic rays were originally discovered because of the ionization they produce in our atmosphere. They cause ionization trails in the atmosphere much like you see in a simple science project called a cloud chamber, shown below:
Why would such an ambitious conclusion follow from such a seemingly innocent bump on the road? We need just a little bit of patience to understand this point.
Results in the Island of St. Vincent Worse Than Reported.
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The last time global surface temperatures warmed at this low a rate for a 203-month period was the late 1970s, or about 1980. Also note that the sharp decline is similar to the drop in the 1940s, and, again, as youll recall, global surface temperatures remained relatively flat from the mid-1940s to the mid-1970s.
In the recent blog post Climate indices to watch at RealClimate , contributor Rasmus Benestad writes (my boldface):
"The North County Gazette, a regional paper covering upstate New York, offers its articles online with a sort of an honor system instead of a standard paywall. OK, but instead of a straight-up honor system or "tip jar" (you read stuff, then drop a micropayment in the bucket), they are totally aggro and threatening about it..
"corn-based" ethanol, instead of producing a 20% savings, nearly doubles greenhouse emissions over 30 years and increases greenhouse gases for 167 years. Biofuels from switchgrass, if grown on U.S. corn lands, increase emissions by 50%.
Carrington's response is essentially to argue that "everyone says so",
Should NATO care? When you put together the territorialization of the seas and the nationalization of oil companies, the Great Game at sea becomes worth examining (e.g., the 2006 decision of the Cuban regime to hire Chinese NOCs for offshore drilling 45 miles off the coast of Florida). China's interest in Cuba, Panama, and Venezuela shows that the "string of pearls" strategy of China goes beyond the Persian Gulf to the South China Sea and the Gulf of Guinea, extending into the Western Hemisphere all the way to America's Caribbean backyard. Since Chinese NOCs are present in 50 countries and play with different rules than regular international oil companies, one would think that the geopolitics of the NOCs could be a suitable topic of discussion in the NAC.
To some this will be seen as more evidence of man-made global warming due to the burning of fossil fuels. To others it is more evidence of natural climate variability the route was open during previous warm periods when man was not burning fossil fuels.
The four researchers report that "no model" - that's right, no model - "reproduces the process of Antarctic bottom water formation accurately." Rather, "instead of forming dense water on the continental shelf and allowing it to spill off," they indicate that "models present extensive areas of deep convection, thus leading to an unrealistic, unstratified open ocean."
Sea ice surrounding Antarctica is witnessing record growth, say scientists from NASAs Jet Propulsion Laband the British Antarctic Survey.
The bottom line of those two quotes: ocean heat content data before the ARGO floats are of very limited value, and ocean heat content data based on ARGO floats are so riddled with problems they too are questionable.
The fundamentally intractable GCM resolution problem is nicely illustrated by a thunderstorm weather system moving across Arizona. 110??110 cells are the finest resolution computationally feasible in CMIP5. Useless for resolving convection processes.
This lag would indeed kill the causal relationship between cosmic rays and clouds if the cosmic rays were the only effect influencing the clouds. However, there are other effects, too. Only crazy people would like to argue that there only exists one cause of climate change and Nir Shaviv is not one of these crazy people. More Shaviv on this blog Nir goes well beyond the handwaving above. In fact, he quantitatively estimates the lag and his prediction turns out to be compatible with observations. The essence of his calculation is simple. The cloud cover oscillations are assumed to have two components. One of them is a direct consequence of the cosmic rays, as dictated by cosmoclimatology. It has virtually no lag and induces changes of the cloud cover by roughly 1.5% (Nir shows that this follows from the sensitivity corresponding to 1 - 1.5 per CO2 doubling).
The United Nations will officially warn that growing crops to make "green" biofuel harms the environment and drives up food prices. A leaked draft of a UN report condemns the widespread use of biofuels made from crops as a replacement for petrol and diesel. It says that biofuels, rather than combating the effects of global warming, could make them worse.
Figure 8 . Climate models predict a hot spot of enhanced warming rate in the tropics, 8 km to 13 km altitude. Radiosonde data shows the hot spot does not exist. Red indicates the fastest warming rate. Source: http://joannenova.com.au
Introduce a new fast scheme for determining solar radiation at surface
How high was this monster? The radar suggested about 40,000 ft, very high for our neck of the woods (see figure)
In his administration's first months, President Obama doubled the U.S. military presence from 34,000 to 68,000 troops. Even after these increases, though, he saw the need later that year for
We know that climate models cannot simulate the sea surface temperature anomalies of the past 31 years. See here . So why should we have any confidence in a climate model-based study of hurricanes that depends on flawed simulations of sea surface temperatures? We shouldnt. Also, tropical cyclones are strongly impacted by El Nio and La Nia events, and climate models still cant simulate El Nios and La Nias. Kerry Emanuels new climate model-based paper is nothing more than computer-aided speculation, using models that cant simulate fundamental components of the study.
Anyway, to get back to the cherry-picking and selection bias issue, the study is pretty clear that it thinks that "more spending" is a failed strategy for improving public education
The second wrong messagein the articlewas that the warming between 1970 and 2010 was due to global warming when it has clearly been shown by climate scientists, includingthe Met Office,that natural planetary cycles ENSO(stronger ElNinos)were behind the recent warm phase.
Such failed projections should come as no great surprise. As the IPCC's own 2001 Assessment Report concludes: "The climate system is a coupled non-linear chaotic system, and therefore the long-term prediction of future climate states is not possible."
Over the past ten years the world has invested more than $600 billion in wind power and $700 billion in solar power. Yet the total contribution those two technologies are now making to the world primary energy supply is still less than 2 per cent. Ouch.
Figure 2: Global temperature over the last 3200 years shows a distinct 1000-year cycle along with the 230-year cycle.
He was preceded earlier in the month on this topic by former Republican congressman Sherwood Boehlert, in a Washington Post Op-ed, attacking the climate stance of the GOP in Congress. He is an honorary board member of Republicans for Environmental Protection, (REP), an organisation that seems to be a cheerleader for the EPA.
What are the major international efforts to stopping global warming?
The best advice I can give Europeans is: Live with it! President Bush is no fluke, and there's no wishing him away. The good news is that Mr. Bush isn't devious or unpredictable. He's entirely open and obvious. A major theme of his campaign was that he does what he says.
Robert Endlich, the meteorologist, reported: "One item after another struck me as being completely at odds with measurements. For instance, Hansen claimed Earth's energy balance is out of balance, and we are warming rapidly, but recent global surface temperatures of land and water have not increased and, in fact, many measures show cooling over the past 17-19 years. In the U.S., there has not been a new state maximum temperature record set since 1995, and, in spite of the claims to the contrary, July 1936 is still the warmest month on record, set when CO2 was less than 300 parts per million. CO2 is now 395 PPM."
But Western policies that perpetuate aid rather than trade do cause direct harm, however worthy the original intentions. And this is also true for the environmental policy that banned the only viable form of protection against the locusts which have caused such devastation. The desert locust, which changes color as it develops, can devour its own weight (about an ounce) in fresh food in 24 hours. A ton of locusts, which is a tiny part of the average swarm, eats the same amount of food in a single day as ten elephants, 25 camels or 2,500 people.
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"Cloud Telecomputers, a software innovator in business applications and IP telephony, today announced that it will be exhibiting Glass, its unique Android-based platform for desktop business smartphones, at AstriCon 2010 in National Harbor, Maryland from October 26-28."
10. Paraguay - Agreement Concerning the Establishment of a Tropical Forest Conservation Fund and a Tropical Forest Conservation Board
Thats true. The picture above shows how low the islands are to the surface of the sea. Theres no question theyre vulnerable to sea level rise, as they have been for several hundreds or thousands of years, since their ancestors arrived there. But what does the Australian expert not tell us? He doesnt say that it will take 200 to 600 years for the sea to rise another 600 mm, during which time the coral will grow and push the islands higher. Thats why coral atolls are still at the sea surface, even though the sea level has gone up about 130 metres (426 ft) since the last ice age.
The experts concluded that the recent increase in impacts from tropical cyclones (including hurricanes) has largely been caused by rising concentrations of population and infrastructure in coastal regions.
Recent innovations have enabled the development of microfinance access to small amounts of credit for specific purposes. Today, microfinance institutions all over the developing world provide small loans, access to savings, and microinsurance to families or small businesses.
"While Americans struggle to pay higher gas prices, the Senate left for its August recess after refusing to take votes on two outstanding bills passed by the House of Representatives that would significantly increase domestic oil and natural gas production. Instead, the Senate pretended to do something by voting to open a tiny area of the Gulf of Mexico to explorationan area currently under a moratorium that expires next year."
No doubt these scientists genuinely believe in their own perception of the climate change story. But why do mainstream scientists go along with the inevitable overstatement associated with the activism business?
the 1960s by changes in the atmospheric circulation. The warming prior to 1940
a three-month-long intensive policy review. The review was spurred by the
Expedition vessel hired by group of global-warming scientists.
Howard Shelanski, the top White House regulatory official, said in a blog post late Friday afternoon that the administration was making new changes to the estimate, and would launch a public comment period ?in response to public and stakeholder interest.?
In 1985, ice cores extracted from Greenland revealed temperatures and CO2 levels going back 150,000 years. Temperature and CO2 seemed locked together. It was a turning pointthe greenhouse effect captured attention. But, in 1999 it became clear that carbon dioxide rose and fell after temperatures did. By 2003, we had better data showing the lag was 800 200 years. CO2 was in the back seat.
A strong high pressure system with a central pressure of 1035 mb has developed over the Arctic north of Alaska, and will bring clear skies and warm southerly winds to northeast Siberia and the Arctic during the coming week, accelerating Arctic sea ice loss. Widespread areas of northeastern Siberia are expected to see air temperatures 4 12C (7 22F) above average during the coming week, and the clockwise flow of air around the high pressure system centered north of Alaska will pump this warm air into the Arctic. Arctic sea ice extent , currently slightly higher than the record low values set in 2007, should fall to to its l owest extent for the date by the third week of August as the clear skies and warm southerly winds melt ice and push it away from the coast of Siberia. This weather pattern, known as the Arctic Dipole, was also responsible for the record sea ice loss in 2007, but was stronger that year.
"The world is experiencing a rapidly rising frequency of extreme climate-related events such as heat waves."
Expanding natural gas use has also reduced carbon dioxide emissions, which should encourage people who still worry about "dangerous manmade climate change."
What these andseveral similar (though less blatant) examples in the ANPR reveal is that EPA cannot regulate CO 2 under the CAA and avoidthe risk of severe economicdamagewithout assuming legislative powers andeffectively amending the Act. Mass v. EPA has set the stage for a constitutional crisis, because EPAmay have to violate the separation of powers in order to avoid wreaking havoc on the economy.
Yet, critics of Exxon's approach, in 2008, feared "that the company's reluctance to explore alternative energy will prove to be bad business judgment in the long run."
Prominent among them was John Fonte, then at the American Enterprise Institute, now at the Hudson Institute. His latest effort, Sovereignty or Submission, has as its subtitle the sobering question: Will Americans Rule Themselves or Be Ruled by Others? That is, indeed, the question.
In its publication, "Keeping Tropical Forests Alive," the World Resources Institute says, "Every year, at least 27 million acres of tropical forests are lost an area the size of Pennsylvania, Ohio or Virginia. That's almost 74,000 acres a day 3,000 acres an hour." (Which by the way also equals 50 acres per minute, or just under one per second). This number apparently good for Richard Nalley who wrote in Science Digest "man is currently slashing and burning away our rain forests, each year gouging a chunk larger than Virginia from an area roughly the size of the continental U.S. At this rate, all but the most remote lowland rain forest will be stripped bare within 30 years."
It was clear from Fayyad's answer to my first questionhow he intends to use the power that comes with international celebritythat he sees the task of leading his people out of four decades of occupation as paramount: "People respond to the occupation and the adversity under the occupation in two ways: one is to react with complete submission, in which case you can't do much of anything, and the other is belligerence. In my view, they are two sides of the same coin: defeatist." He embraces a doctrine of nonviolence in international affairs, and democracy at home undergirded by strong security forces responsible to the national government. "Yes I say to political pluralism, but definitely no to security pluralism," he said with emphasis.
The climate models used in this post are from the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project, Phase 5 (CMIP5) archive . The source of the model outputs is the KNMI Climate Explorer , specifically from the Radiation variables on the Monthly CMIP5 scenario runs webpage. The TOA Incident Shortwave Radiation (incoming downward solar radiation) is identified as rsdt on that KNMI webpage, the TOA Outgoing Shortwave Radiation (reflected solar radiation) as rsut , and the TOA Outgoing Longwave Radiation (emitted infrared radiation) as rlut . Ive used the higher of the middle-of-the-road scenarios, RCP6.0, and downloaded the outputs individually for each model.
Another remarkable proposal came from media baron Ted Turner. Like the climate delegation from China, Turner urged planetary overlords at a luncheon in Cancun to adopt a global one-child policy modeled after the brutal communist Chinese system. ?If we?re going to be here 5,000 years from now, we?re not going to do it with seven billion people,? claimed Turner, who has five children of his own.
The bulk of the emission p 395 Gtons sedan1750 has ended up in the atmosphere with 24010 and 15530 in vrldshavet with Gtons.
The brown Zune 30 GB is #1 bestseller in electronics at amazon.com, ahead of all iPods. It is not so shocking because this particular color only costs USD 134, much less than the price of much weaker iPods. I am simply amazed how they can produce it for this ridiculously low amount of money.
3. The IPCC's climate-model alarmism regarding dangerous, accelerating sea levels due to human CO2 emissions is without empirical merit - summarily, an IPCC fantasy.
Does anyone else detect any indication of media bias here? Maybe it?s just me.
Report from the Heartland Institute Climate Change Conference
Tenth International Conference on Climate Change a Smashing Success
They appear to think they own the university, and "academic freedom" means they are entitled to deny academic degrees to children of parents whose politics differ from their own. As more alumni join this effort, however, and the university's reputation becomes increasingly radioactive, OSU appears to be wavering. Perhaps a dose of sanity may yet take center stage.
"Corporations," said Ridenour, "will be tempted to pay tribute to environmental groups knowing full well that they are the final arbiters of who does and does not deserve emissions credits." Crony Capitalism can be downloaded from http://users.erols.com/npap/crony.html.
Suffice it to say that Climategate is just the tip of the iceberg of misbehaving mainstream climate scientists whose personal agendas and lack of humility have misled not only themselves but many others. We all deserve better.
Contrasting evidence of past temperature variations at Law Dome, Antarctica has been derived from ice core isotope measurements and from the inversion of a subsurface temperature profile (Dahl-Jensen et al., 1999; Goosse et al., 2004; Jones and Mann, 2004). The borehole analysis indicates colder intervals at around 1250 and 1850, followed by a gradual warming of 0.7C to the present. The isotope record indicates a relatively cold 20th century and warmer conditions throughout the period 1000 to 1750.
Just a little honesty there, too. Just one off-the-cuff suggestion (volcanoes, which have not been particularly active globally in the past decade), but no fewer than three possible modeling errors are suggested.