Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
Another thing that feeds my suspicion that a pagan mindset informs Global Warmingism are the steady and consistent calls for sacrifice ? even human sacrifice ? to ward off the threatened catastrophes.
The planetary energy balance equation has its greatest utility in the context of comparative planetology. It is not needed to prove the existence of the greenhouse effect, although it is conceptually useful in explaining and understanding the greenhouse effect.
Following an exhaustive review of more than fifty years of long term data on environmental conditions at the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest, located in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, the paper??s authors arrived at a sobering conclusion: current climate change models don??t account for real life surprises that take place in forests.
Inorganic fertilizers, for example, are often decried as dangerous and "unnatural." Part of the appeal of "organic" foods comes from their claim that no such fertilizers are used, implying that there is some danger to them. In fact, a 2012 Stanford University meta-analysis of existing studies found that organic foods carried no significant health or nutritional benefits. Moreover, the animus against inorganic fertilizers ignores the role they have played in increasing food production and reducing famine in the developing world.
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Likewise, the solar energy input on the Earths surface (and also some energy goes directly into the atmosphere) induces a temperature of up to +121 degrees C, and there is no way to trap or reflect this temperature to make itself hotter, as is claimed by the greenhouse effect. We checked to see if the solar energy was being trapped or back-radiated by the atmosphere in such a way as to induce a higher temperature, in the real-world with empirical observational data, using the predictions of the greenhouse effect math . The data showed that the greenhouse effect math was wrong. Of course, we already knew this, but we did the due-diligence of performing the appropriate observational experiment just to make sure. We already know the greenhouse effect math is wrong, because nowhere do we have something running at -100 degrees C being amplified to +100 degrees C this would be a perpetual motion machine.
That research, which involved scientists from many disciplines, was based on experimentation. The scientists studied such questions as how atmospheric carbon dioxide interacts with plant life and the role of clouds in warming.
Teams of international economists, scientists, inspectors and statisticians roaming China to gather information on carbon emissions and reduction initiatives would have been unprecedented. In promoting China, Beijing projects an image of order and competence to the world. In parts of its wealthier coastal cities, China is that. But these international teams would undoubtedly discover exactly how dysfunctional the heart of the country really is. They would see first hand and report back how China's 45 million local officials remain the most formidable obstacle to improving transparency in China's sprawling economic structure protecting their turf, defending their privileges, arbitrarily enforcing the law, and when it comes to economic performance blatantly cooking the books. Beijing still wants to assure outsiders that it remains in charge even though in important respects it is not.
UK Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne confirmed Wednesday that his previously announced financial initiatives to revitalise the UK North Sea oil and gas industry will go ahead, and also said he would remove the climate change levy in his first budget since the Conservatives won the UK general election in May. -- Alliance News, 8 July 2015
The Rest-of-the-World data does diverge from the scaled NINO3.4 data as expected in response to the volcanic eruptions. Ive highlighted those in green. The effects of the very strong 1982/83 El Nio were counteracted by the 1982 eruption of El Chichon and the impacts of the 1991/92 El Nio were overwhelmed by the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo.
As for natural gas, experts predict that lower prices as more is discovered via fracking, will increase industrial output 2.8% by 2015 and 3.9% by 2025. Policies that would allow the export of U.S. liquefied natural gas would generate between $15.6 billion and $73.6 billion to the Gross Domestic Product and help reduce our deficits and debt.
Because of these realities of the unknown there is an unspoken, but crucial, code among scientists: tolerate colleagues poking and picking at your sacred cows. So Garth should have been able to depend on the code at a meeting of key climate players in Australia, where he questioned the, now infamous, hockey stick, according to the best scientific traditions. However, to Garth?s surprise, scientists there responded fiercely to his innocent questions. In fact, harangues reverberated for days afterward. He writes that it was like ?stirring a hornet?s nest.? Not only were the hornets enraged, they were attacking him rather than responding to his questions.
Returning in India in the late 1970s, he became director of the Tata Energy Research Institute.
In the face of some recent pushback for example, from the studies out of Spain and Denmark referenced in this space on numerous occasions the windmill welfare queens over at the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) have been cranking up the snivel volume to eleven.
IPCC reports are supposed to be the gold standard account of what is and is not known about global warming. The panel boasts that it uses only peer-reviewed scientific literature. But its claims about mountain ice turned out to be anecdotes from a climbing magazine, its claims on the Amazon's vulnerability to drought from a Brazilian pressure group's website and 42 per cent of the references in one chapter proved to be to reports by Greenpeace, WWF and other "grey" literature. Yesterday's review finds that guidelines on the use of this grey literature "are vague and have not always been followed".
Returning to the TAO Project data, the warm water volume and depth-averaged temperature data shown in Figure 6 for the eastern equatorial Pacific also show lower values in 2014 than in 1997. This year, the eastern equatorial data both rose, a result of the Kelvin wave carrying warm water from the West Pacific Warm Pool to the east. Most of that warm water in the east has now been consumed, released to the atmosphere through evaporation or distributed away from the equator.
Delegates to the World Trade Organization pledge to renew contentious negotiations over farm subsidies.
A couple of notes: The multi-model mean data are not expected to present the year-to-year variations in sea surface temperature associated with the El Nio-Southern Oscillation (ENSO). Some of the models simulate ENSO; others dont. The models that do attempt to simulate ENSO do a poor job of it. (This is documented in numerous peer-reviewed papers.) Each model produces ENSO events on its own schedule; that is, the modeled ENSO events do not reproduce the observed frequency, duration, and magnitude of El Nio and La Nia events. Since the multi-model mean presents the average of all of those out-of-synch ENSO signals, they are smoothed out. For this reason, we are only concerned with the disparity in the modeled and observed trends.
IPCC mistakes, Climategate perversions, and now new major scientific findings all demand the same thingthat EPA reconsider its Endangerment Finding as the validity of its scientific underpinnings is badly in need of update and reappraisal.
Aristocracies commonly prevent talented individuals from earning more wealth then their social betters, and today's progressive aristocracy runs true to form. Far from being the most talented individuals, its recruits are "people whose most prominent feature is their commitment to fit in," Codevilla writes. He continues:
Murphy is anything but foolisha Rhodes scholar, he's probably got the finest mind in Canadian journalism. Nor is he wrong or naive about the planetary cooling trend. For example, Murphy is quite aware of the difference between weather and climate, writing in his column:
We will delete comments which deny the absolutely overwhelming scientific consensus on climate change, just as we would delete comments which questioned the reality of the Holocaust or the equal mental capacities and worth of human beings of different ethnic groups. Such "debates" are merely the morally indefensible trying to cover itself in the cloth of intellectual tolerance.
As he did in early September with the ozone regulations , President Obama has the power to tell Secretary Jackson to slow down, delay, or stop altogether. However, without intense public pressure, he is unlikely to do anything. The Utility MACT rule is just one of the expensive rules flowing down from the EPA that will cause America to lose important and cost-effective energy that is essential to economic growth. The higher costs will be passed on to the already struggling businesses and households.
Shouldnt truth-in-advertising laws also apply to press releases for scientific studies?
By Robert Samuelson, Washington Post, Aug 9, 2015
Theres an 80 per cent consensus indicating that increased fire activity into the future is highly likely, he told reporters in an online Australian Science Media Centre briefing.
In the face of a changing climate many species must adapt or perish. Ecologists studying evolutionary responses to climate change forecast that cold-blooded tropical species are not as vulnerable to extinction as previously thought. The study, published in the British Ecological Society's Functional Ecology , considers how fast species can evolve and adapt to compensate for a rise in temperature.
All of the believers in human caused ???global warming?? seem to see something ???unprecedented?? in the recent changes in temperature. But all recent changes are well within the normal range of variability, and recent small temperature excursions have been matched or exceeded many times in the past: the Medieval Warm Period, the Roman Warm Period, the Minoan Warm Period, the Holocene Warming, and all the major interglacial warmings that preceded them as shown in the Vostok data. They all occurred without any significant human emission of CO2.
The "trick" was of course, to truncate the divergent data, to replace it with the instrumental records for the same period and then to smooth the spliced series so that the join was no longer visible. The sentence is the Spiegel article seems to suggest that this "swap, splice and smooth" process could reasonably be described as a "mere" fudge.
The University of Colorado, at SPPIs request, has updated the sea-level data from the JASON satellite to the end of 2008. Though James Hansen of NASA says sea level will rise 246 feet, sea level has not risen since the beginning of 2006. Sea level rose just 8 inches in the 20th century and has been rising at just 1 ft/century since 1993.
The Department of Energy (DOE), citingrising costs, pulled the plug onFutureGen,a $1.5 billion government-industrypartnership to build the world??s first commercial scale CCS power plant.In July 2009,however, FutureGen Alliance, Inc.announced it had reached an agreement with DOE to begin ???construction of the first commercial-scale, fully integrated carbon capture and sequestration project in the country in Matton, Ill.?? So there is still not even a commercial-scale demonstration project, though there may be in the next few years.
First, a real attempt by a small group of scientists to subvert the peer-review process and suppress dissenting voices. This is at best massively unethical.
Figure description: Trends in Estimated U.S. Air Pollutant Emissions, 1970-2006. Data Source: U.S. EPA, Air Quality and Emissions - Progress Continues in 2006.
I was therefore interested to read about how critical climate scientists are of climate models, but this did make me return again to my observations about climate sensitivity. If climate scientists have so little confidence in computer models, how come the IPCC's estimates of climate sensitivity are based on models rather than the less alarming empirical measurements? I think we need to know.
In 2001 and 2007 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) (and here )estimated that the world would warm at a rate of 0.2 deg C per decade in the future due to greenhouse gas forcing. Since those predictions were made it has become clear that the world has not been warming at that rate. Some scientists retrospectively revised their forecasts saying that the 0.2 deg C figure is an average one. Larger or smaller rates of warming are possible as short-term variations.
There are other deleterious manifestations of NRDC's capture of EPA, such as the phenomenon known as "sue and settle," which I explain in more detail in the aforementioned paper.
While time and space constraints here do not permit a thorough review of the evidence Soon and Baliunas present for their findings, or the possible natural explanations for these temperature variations, a few salient points about their studyand criticisms of itare worth making.
These inflated, error-prone, tinkered-with temperature recordings are one of several measurements cited by the U.N.??s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change as evidence man-made global warming is a threat. But the Heartland study concluded, ???The U.S. temperature record is unreliable. And since the U.S. record is thought to be ???the best in the world,?? it follows that the global database is likely similarly compromised and unreliable.??
The examples of rigidly enforced conformity could fill several volumes, and no amount of criticism from outside the environmental citadel is likely to break though the walls. So, is there any chance that reform will come from within?
Even if the Court upholds the Timing Rule, petitioners and their allies can extract some political capital from the case. A decision favorable to the EPA would confirm the urgency of ending "regulation without representation." As you know, many constitutionalists and free-marketers view the EPA's takeover of climate policy as a breach of the separation of powers. If the President submitted EPA's greenhouse gas regulations to Congress as a legislative package, it would be dead on arrival. Congress should have to approve major regulatory actions before they can become binding on the public.
Fluorescents aren't all that bad. In fact, they've steadily gained market share in recent years. But from now on their popularity will rest not on consumer preferences, but on the force of law. If there's anything about fluorescents that involves the general absence of hope, it's that Congress has been able to mandate them with so little opposition.
The IPCC AR4 report shows that over most of Australia precipitation increases and decreases are only shown in two-thirds of all the models, in other words, up to one third of the models might predict no change or the opposite result in exactly the same area.
23 Different Health Reform Plans, and Not One Mentions Torts
Solar activity explains all 6 well-known warming periods that have occurred during the Holocene, including the current warm period
On September 11, 53 Senators (43 Republicans and 10 Democrats) signed a letter to Gina McCarthy, Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), begging for a 60-day extension of the comment period for the "Carbon Pollution Emission Guidelines for Existing Stationary Sources: Electric Generating Units"also known as the Clean Power Plan (CPP). The original 120-day comment periodwhich is already longer than the traditional 60-day comment periodis coming to a close within the next 30 days (October 16).
troposphere unless you accept one single study and approach and discount a
While the eagles are found across the country, populations are larger in the West. California's three priority projects alone are within 10 miles of 21 golden eagle territories, the closest 1,000 feet away.
China and India pose a great challenge to efforts to deal with the 85 percent of the task that lies beyond direct U.S. control. Their governments refuse to shoulder the costs of limiting GHG emissions. That decision is rational; their governments are largely free from domestic pressures to adopt controls.
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"You're asking us to impose billions of dollars of cost on this economy and you won't answer the simple question of whether (temperature around the world is increasing faster than predicted) is accurate or not?" Sessions responded.
Global warming is not happening at anything like the predicted rate. The divergence between prediction and reality is now severe. Despite revisions in the terrestrial datasets calculated to cause an unmeasured increase in the warming rate of recent decades, the gulf between the exaggerated predictions in the models and the far less exciting observed reality is in danger of becoming an abyss.
That is why the Eastern United States, Northern Europe and East Asia have experienced extraordinarily snowy and cold winters since the turn of this century. Most forecasts have failed to predict these colder winters, however, because the primary drivers in their models are the oceans, which have been warming even as winters have grown chillier. They have ignored the snow in Siberia.
Glassman: Would you say, in general, that at this point the science is unsettled?
"Monckton's data don't even agree with themselves"
Ravelos team found evidence of similar amplified warming at the poles during the Pliocene Warm Period. Analysis of the sediment samples indicated that average sea surface temperatures in the Bering Sea were at least 5 degrees Celsius warmer than today, while average global temperatures were only 3 degrees warmer than today.
So far Europe?s emissions trading scheme has cost consumers more than ?300bn. Massive amounts of green investments originally projected on the back of a high carbon price have been shelved and are no longer feasible. There can be little doubt Europe?s flagship climate policy has turned into an utter failure. In a realistic assessment of Europe?s policy shift, the International Energy Agency recently noted that ?climate change has quite frankly slipped to the backburner of policy priorities?.
UN environmental initiative is the Tea Party's new nightmare:
Homeopaths are facing a fight to defend their practice in Australia after the National Health and Medical Research Council flagged it might declare their work baseless and unethical.
China is particularly unamused. As an article in the Financial Times points out:
From these early organizing struggles, Davis left two key tactical legacies. The first was an appreciation for the benefits of ideology and symbolism. All of 1199's 1960s-era campaigns were cloaked in the language of civil rights, an effective strategy, as most of the union's members were black and Puerto Rican. Its "union power, soul power" rhetoric helped 1199 cultivate high-profile liberal supporters such as Eleanor Roosevelt, U.S. Senators Herbert Lehman and Jacob Javits, Martin Luther King (who called 1199 "my favorite union"), Thurgood Marshall, Malcolm X, the New York Times, and the then-left-leaning New York Post. Longtime Post columnist Murray Kempton once likened 1199 strikes to "wars of national liberation."
As David Rothbard, the president and co-founder of the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT), a free market think tank, noted in the wake of Obama?s announcement, ?The President will have to bypass the law-making process and use executive orders and regulations? to achieve his goal of slashing emissions. ?To do so requires tortured readings of the Clean Air Act and other current laws.?
Wellington : Moved from Bolton St to Buckle St (location uncertain) to Thorndon to Kelburn during 1906-1927, all with different aspects, exposures, elevations and urban heat island (UHI) effects. There were no nearby stations for comparisons.
The real US temperature graph above (not to be confused with the fraudulent one generated by NCDC) shows pretty clearly that the US is on a 70 year warming and cooling cycle, and that there is no reason to believe global warming has affected the US in any way.
chapter with Kevin Trenberth and well be looking for Contributing Authors to help the
Congress did not design the Clean Air Act to be a framework for climate policy.
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Santorums strategy didnt work in New Hampshire. Romney outpaced all of his opponents among conservative voters, attracting 33 percent of those who describe themselves as very conservative, compared to Santorums 26 percent. Romney also won easily among evangelicals and tea party supporters
War is the quintessential government activity, writes Higgs. Employment figures were stellar during World War II only because a number of men equivalent to 22 percent of the prewar labor force were drawn into the military, mostly by the draft, at below-market wages. Making- the critical distinction between wartime prosperity and genuine prosperity, he confirms that the economy did not actually recover fully until after World War II.
Meacher: "No, no, there is a name which is the Spanish word for a young child, what is it called?"
The NSIDC maps show 7.5% more ice in 2010 than 2007, but their graph shows less than 3% difference.
Georgia Judge Blocks Coal Power Plant
3. Critics of the bloody crossroads of science and politics are fond of recurring to Stephen Schneider's incautious statement: "On the one hand, as scientists we are ethically bound to the scientific method. . . . On the other hand, we are not just scientists but human beings as well. . . . To avert the risk we need to get some broad based support, to capture the public imagination. That of course means getting loads of media coverage. So we have to offer up some scary scenarios, make simplified dramatic statements and little mention of any doubts one might have. . . . Each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective, and being honest. I hope that means being both." From Jonathan Schell, "Our Fragile Earth," Discover (October 1989): 47.
The yeah but statement after the boldfaced portion is, of course, speculation.
It is time to follow Europe's lead. We may not be able to do anything about the weather or climate. But we can, and must, implement policies that ensure we have the technology, money, jobs and energy to adapt to whatever climate and weather changes might come.
Ben, I am not supporting (or opposing) the foreign policy decisions made by Bush, Blair and their successors. For one thing, Im no expert in that field, and more broadly, it is impossible to do alternative scenarios. Its like those silly arguments that boil down to the famous headline in Honi Soit (the Sydney University student paper) Archduke Ferdinand found alive. World War 1 for nothing.
Dr. Christopher J. Kobus, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Oakland University In essence, the jig is up. The whole thing is a fraud. And even the fraudsters that fudged data are admitting to temperature history that they used to say didnt happenPerhaps what has doomed the Climategate fraudsters the most was their brazenness in fudging the data