Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
Canada will seek to claim credit for exporting energy from hydroelectric power and natural gas to the United States and elsewhere. Environment Minister David Anderson claims that Canada should be given credit since such exports would replace "dirty" coal power. This would account for as much as 29 percent of Canada's Kyoto target (Associated Press, September 5, 2002).
The next problem with an ???ice-free Arctic?? is that summer temperatures north of 80N have not changed over the last 50 years. You can see that in the DMI graphs . If anything, recent years have had colder summers near the pole. High Arctic warming has occurred in other seasons, but not during the summer. The melt season is very short at the pole , and some summers have no melt.
Interior Secretary Salazar cracks under pressure and begins issuing Gulf of Mexico Drilling Permits:
This major effort revealed, in the words of the two researchers, that "southern faces of outcrops had different species and lower maximum temperatures than isolated north faces and surrounding vegetation plots." And, therefore, they concluded that "south faces of outcrops by providing cool microhabitats, and currently harboring species not found in the surrounding zonal vegetation matrix, could serve as local refugia for heat-intolerant plants and other microthermic organisms."
The problem is that few degrees of freedom are easily adjusted in a regression. Therefore, the described feature will occur with any trended series, be it synthetic or natural (trends are ubiquituous): regressing it on NHT using that special calibration/validation partition returns a high RE. McIntyre and McKitrick, 2005b demonstrate this with suitably filtered red noise series. We picked as a nonsense NHT regressor the annual number of available grid points and, in fact, were rewarded with an RE of almost 50% (see below)!
Of course, older tide gauge data is likely to be poor, too, and the older data is suspect.
Now, let's see what happens when we start to factor in recent findings.
At the very least, the House of Representatives needs to hold hearings, and have callous bureaucrats, slick scientists and computer modeling charlatans present their data, codes and findings under oath. Then voters need to vote Republican in November to change the Senate majority, and restore at least a modicum of constitutional checks and balances to a system which has vested far too much power in an unaccountable Executive Branch that shows total disdain for honesty, transparency and working families.
First U.S. small modular reactor inches ahead
The Sun and solar amplification mechanisms are dismissed as a cause because sunspots peaked around 1960, even though sunspots remained at relatively high levels, considered as the solar grand maximum of the late 20th century.
Here is the NHC 5 day track, Havana, Houston, and Galveston seem to be the targets this time. Ike will probably weaken as it goes ove Cuba, and may regain strength as it passes into the Gulf. Though, the last time, Gustav didnt recover much after passing over western Cuba.
As Senate majority leader, Harry Reid blocked bipartisan measures, and Obama has shown neither the inclination nor the capacity to advance them. But with McConnell opening up the Senate floor for votes and amendments, agreements are now possible.
B classification is the only one initially determined by annual precipitation. If it is not a B climate then it is one of the other classifications. The amount of precipitation must be sufficient to support trees. Thus a desert is not defined by temperature, but by lack of vegetation. Koppen recognized another important issue called the effectiveness of precipitation.
If you register as a warrior against the "deniers", and I did, you will be getting lots of e-mail asking you for money. We often mention the Nigerian scams as an example of scams associated with Africa but I am afraid that Obama's Kenyan scams are already harming the credibility of the U.S. more than the Nigerian scams. I am pretty sure that BarackObama.COM must violate many anti-spam laws and if the law were properly and neutrally enforced, Barack Obama would have to be taken down.
Another peer-reviewed scientific study, by Erlykin et al. this time, finds that modern fluctuations of temperature, storminess and precipitation are basically normal fluctuations - ergo, the weather still changes and includes extreme incidents, as has always been the case.
The three Canadian researchers say their findings demonstrate that "increased CO 2 will not have direct negative effects on all marine invertebrates, suggesting that predictions of biotic responses to climate should consider how different types of organisms will respond to changing climatic variables." Indeed, they clearly state -- and without equivocation -- that "responses to anthropogenic climate change, including ocean acidification, will not always be negative," as is also indicated by the results of numerous studies archived under the headings of Calcification and Marine Biota in our Subject Index. Reviewed 19 August 2009
And what happened? Mr Letts asked. Zilch, said Mr Lilley. Nothing. There was no global warming over the ensuing decade. And, indeed, when 2014 arrived, we could see that far from this forecast coming to pass, the temperature trend had not, in fact, risen since 1998.
"Although the high-speed rail project is dead, the downtown Madison area around the proposed rail station is set to be developed."
So having an archive named Archive Chewy and a working set named Working Droid lets you only decrypt the active part of your files and leaving the more stable set even less likely to be accessible. Keep a backup copy on a removable drive so if the malware tries to re-write and / or append and screws up the bits so the decrypt fails, you dont lose it all
And the concern about EPA GHG regulation does not just stem from the CAAs very permissive endangerment standard. The CAA programs under which EPA can regulate also grant EPA great discretionary authority in setting standards. Some CAA programs (the NAAQS, for instance) do not authorize consideration of costs; others do authorize consideration of costs but give EPA authority to weigh cost and environmental factors in its judgment.
A recent article in Science, Arrow et al., provides a summary of and supporting example for the declining discount rate argument. However a close reading of both the Science article and Wietzman's original article reveals just how critical, and arguably contrived, are the assumptions needed to justify declining discount rates. Nevertheless, even with the assumptions ceded, declining discount rates cannot be used with the IAMs as set up in the IWG's analysis. The low discount rates that motivate DDRs require extended periods of stagnant growth; and the growth rates used by the IWG in the IAMs are too high to meet this criterion.
The three Finnish researchers report that "higher production temperature induced a positive maternal effect resulting in faster hatching and indicating that the mothers can invest more in their eggs, and therefore produce better quality eggs." In addition, they further note, in this regard, that the similar studies of Karell et al . (2008) and Jonasdottir et al . (2009) showed how "the egg quality in terms of maternal immunological or nutritional provisioning improved," and they suggest that this phenomenon may explain "the declining effect of pH difference on egg hatching." What it means
From legal scholar Henry G. Manne, one of the founders of the field of law and economics. Communism's show trials and gulags are well known, but Communism has an equally insidious impact on how ordinary people live and work. Prof. Manne's formulation may be the single most concise summary of Communism's devastating impact on human incentives.
A year into Kyoto, global warmers seem to be focusing more on melodrama than science.
However, the American public is not clamoring for the closure of cost-effective coal-fueled power plants. What they want is cheap energy, but Obama is, as the Washington Post states: "a President bizarrely antagonistic toward domestic energy production and low energy prices."
On 23rd June 1988, James Hansen went before the Senate having allegedly** went in the night before and opened all the windows, So that the air conditioning wasnt working inside the room it was really hot . Hansen then stated falsely that he was 99% certain that the recent temperature rise was caused by humans a figure so utterly wrong it is even rejected by the IPCC.
S. Raghavan, retired Deputy Director-General of Meteorology of the India Meteorological Department, has written a valuable and very insightful essay on the role of meteorologists in society. Although he recognizes that he is not a climate expert, his essay equally applies to climate scientists, as is evident in the text. The article is part of the May 2005 issue of BREEZE the newsletter of the Indian Meteorological Society, Chennai Chapter. See also here .
They have good reason to worry. A new study by Charles River Associates, an economic consulting firm, shows that of all the industrial nations Canada could face the highest costs to reduce energy emissions. "Of all the OECD countries," says the study, "Canada is probably in the most disadvantageous position to respond to the Kyoto Protocol." Compliance could reduce Canada's annual economic growth by 0.66 to 2 percent per year.
I will not search through the hundreds of comments you have made on the subject in multiple venues to find ones that might meet some agreed definition of promotion
Floods usually occur in the middle and lower reaches of the major rivers in China. These floods are experienced on a recurring basis along this and other river systems in China. The periodic severe flooding associated with these heavy rainfall events kill from several thousand to several hundred thousand people. During this century major flooding disasters occurred in 1900,1911, 1915,1931,1935,1950, 1954,1959, 1991 and 1998 mainly in the Yangtze River Valley.
The climate policy adopted by many governments is still in its infancy. The publications provided by an international group of scientists (the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change , IPCC) have encountered skepticism, especially since some of their researchers have shownthemselves to be fraudsters (Betrger). In any case, some governments?? publicly stated targets are far less scientific, but rather politically endorsed. It seems to me that the time has come that one of our top scientific organisations should scrutinise, under the microscope, the work of the IPCC, in a critical and realistic way, and then present the resulting conclusions to the German public in a comprehensible manner ?? .
The CFC Ban: Global Warming's Pilot Episode
2 Observations and Global Climate Models. in press Journal of Climate
If you want to know which scientific frauds each of these wretches committed, come to my lectures across Australia in late January and early February. Dates, times and venues will be posted from mid-January at www.scienceandpublicpolicy.org.
Prof Phil Jones told the University of East Anglias boss that he did not delete any of the emails that were released from the university last November, despite apparently saying he would in one of those emails.
We now know that the prospect of such answers seeing the light of day was clearly of great concern to the DoE. This raises the question of whether, by refusing to share information sought by the ranking Republican on the House Select Committee on Global Warming, Ms. Zoi lied to or misled a member of Congress exercising his legitimate oversight function.
Increasing river flow into lakes causes the water level to decline. Brilliant.
When those early records are taken into account, it is clear that New South Wales experienced cooling from the late 1800s to about 1960. After 1960, temperatures across the state and the nation started to increase. This warming continued until it reached a plateau in 2002. Because the warming of the late twentieth century never completely negated the cooling of the early twentieth century, the overall net trend is actually one of cooling. In the case of Newcastle, its a cooling of 0.63 degree Celsius per century.
On page 45 of the platform, the Democratic Party agreed, "We believe the United States must lead in forging a robust global solution to the climate crisis. We are committed to a national mobilization, and to leading a global effort to mobilize nations, to address this threat on a scale not seen since World War II."
This line of thinking falls apart at the very beginning, of course, since it's not at all clear that global temperatures are driven by atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide.
Mr OBrien pointed to the Commonwealths decision as a reason not to go ahead with the Victorian standards.
In the words of the authors, "during the period 1801-1900, the western European lakes show no significant trend whereas annual mean air temperatures at the eastern European lakes decrease significantly." For the period 1901-1997, on the other hand, they note there is a warming trend "at all but the Fennoscandian lakes." Even more interesting is what one learns when the 20 years from 1781-1801 are also considered. In terms of sliding decadal averages, four of the lakes depict net increases in air temperature over the 216-year period, as one would expect for a world that has just experienced a century of "unprecedented" global warming, as climate alarmists would have us believe. Three of the lakes, however, exhibit no net change in temperature; and four of them actually depict net cooling . What it means
Two New Attacks on Hockey Stick by Paleoclimatologists
Whether it is the President or the Pope, or the countless politicians and bureaucrats, along with multitudes of "environmental" organizations, as well as self-serving "scientists", all aided by the media, a virtual Green Army has been deliberately deceiving and misleading the citizens of planet Earth for four and a half decades. It won't stop any time soon, but it must before the charade of environmentalism leaves us all enslaved by the quest for political control over our lives that hides behind it.
Quite generally, the very idea that there should be more people involved in this shooting is bizarre. A vast majority of similar incidents involves a single shooter. Think about Breivik and lots of others. Why would someone think that it's more convincing to create a theory with numerous shooters?
The Remote Sensing Systems (RSS) Land-only TLT trend is +0.3 F/decade.
The groups lawyer Terry Sissons told the High Court at Auckland today that NIWA could have obtained inaccurate New Zealand average temperatures due to sudden site relocations and by regularly changing temperature gauging instruments.
Despite the withdrawal, CEI is still pressing for the D.C. Superior Court to take action and apply sanctions against Walker. The superior court heard the group's legal case at a hearing on Tuesday. The think tank says the judge is reviewing their request and a decision could come soon.
Yesterday's vote in the Senate that failed to kill $6 Billion in annual subsidies to corn ethanol might seem like a defeat for market-oriented energy reformersBut there's a lot more here than meets the eye.
Floods, hurricanes, droughts and famine are all blamed on man-made climate change and more is to come if we dont clean up our act we are told. One would have thought, listening to the doom mongers, that such disasters had never happened in the history of mankind until some Pandora-like figure had the idea of burning the energy out of coal and oil.
By Tom Stacy and George Taylor, Institute for Energy Research, Jun 30, 2015
Grain-based ethanol is a bad idea, combined with subsidy programs; prices of corn have soared to new heights. We should stop that insanity.
President Obama's director of progressive media is obsessed with one particular conservative provocateur. Jesse Lee's duties at the White House include "online response" and there has been no shortage of responses to one person who routinely communicates with him on Twitter."
Meanwhile, the weeds, bedbugs, mosquitoes and viral crop diseases continue to mutate and proliferate. The chemical companies only make money if their pesticides can safely be approved for useand suppress pests.
Roughly speaking, the business-as-usual warming from all greenhouse gases in a century is the same as the warming to be expected from a doubling of CO2 concentration. Yet at present the entire interval of warming rates that might have been caused by us falls well below the least value in the predicted climate-sensitivity interval C.
I also think the science is being manipulated to put a political spin on it
On Al Gores own chart of the past 650,000 years, you can see temperature increases similar to today approximately every 105,000 years.
There hasnt been any sea level rise in the San Francisco Bay for at least 70 years.
Everybody: please PLEASE, whatever your concern is, DO NOT ever make it descend into a farce, following the sad path of AGW.
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The problem with the great international conspiracy of climate sceptics is that its so small and innocent that a disappointed warmist who steals documents from the Heartland Institute finds they must fake the main one to get media attention.
However, the trends of increases or decreases in extreme daily rainfall are not statistically significant; although, there have been changes in extreme rain events in certain areas in the Philippines. For instance, intensity of extreme daily rainfall is already being experienced in most parts of the country, but not statistically significant (see in Fig.14 ). Likewise, the frequency has exhibited an increasing trend, also, not statistically significant (as shown in Fig.15 ).
They??ve gone down .39 degrees Celsius per decade from 1986 to 2011. These two periods of down-trending annual temperatures were separated by a curious and unexplained temperature step change increase of 3.6 degrees F occurring between 1985 and 1986.
Balling also found that "winter warming of minimum temperatures accounts for more than 40 percent of all warming observed at Rothamsted; summer maximum temperatures account for only 10 percent of the warming," meaning that most of the warming occurs at night and in winter. Also, 92.5 percent of the warming in the record occurred before 1950.
Another apostle of the renewable energy, anti-hydrocarbon movement is Senator Harry Reid. The chief organizer of and keynote speaker at this week's falsely named National Clean Energy Summit in Las Vegas, Reid is a true believer in destroying conventional energy through subsidies, regulations and strong-arm tactics. He even wants to shut down every coal power plant in Nevada.
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The wind power industry often claims that "electricity generated by the wind turbines will displace on a kWh for kWh basis electricity that would be generated by fossil-fuel generating units and any associated emissions." But that simply is not true, says Schleede. "Such claims are generally exaggerated. For example, they do not take into account that any fossil-fueled generating unit that is kept available to back up the intermittent electricity from the wind farm will be giving off emissions while it is running at less than peak efficiency or in "spinning reserve' mode. Nor do they take into account the fact that other alternatives for reducing emissions are likely to be far more cost-effective."
Incidentally, as we expected, they begin to emerge more and more 'stories related to the cliche' of corruption generated by power. There 'year that passes without a minister who should resign in shame (even twice). Blair himself, instead of preventing earthquakes, and was detected in the public cultivate ties, those are 'slightly sulphurous, with tobacco companies and especially with the arms merchants, you are having said it would be more' immaculate of a sheet White.
Like the global-warming crowds movement toward ever more labored explanations for why the weather isnt behaving according to Al Gores scary computer-model scenarios, Earth Day keeps evolving. It began in 1970 as a well-meaning conservation effort, and even inspired some needed laws to clean up the air and rivers.
The start of the current pause is difficult to determine precisely. Although 1998 is often quoted as the start of the current pause, this was an exceptionally warm year because of the largest El Nio in the instrumental record. This was followed by a strong La Nia event and a fall in global surface temperature of around 0.2oC (Figure 1), equivalent in magnitude to the average decadal warming trend in recent decades. It is only really since 2000 that the rise in global surface temperatures has paused.
WND reports on the subpoena that CEI receieved from Attorney General Claude Walker and discusses Sam Kazman's response.
Carbon dioxide present in the oceans is essential to plant life and current very low levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and the ocean are limiting plant growth. All animal life depends on these plants. Mans mining and industrial activities are harmlessly recycling some of this valuable carbon dioxide from natural limestones and hydrocarbons buried in the dead lithosphere, back to the living biosphere.
The rule follows new ozone limits proposed by the EPA last November, new limits issued in March on hydraulic fracturing on public lands, new moratoriums on drilling in and around Alaska, and a potential rule cracking down on greenhouse gas emissions from drilling on federal lands. Keep in mind the states already regulate natural-gas drilling, and theyve done it well enough to avoid major accidents.
There's another reason why there will be more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. It involves two of the most swiftly developing nations in the world, China and India, both of whom are building coal-fired plants to generate electricity as fast as they can. This is happening while the Environmental Protection Agency has been engaged in an all-out war on coal that has closed several hundred U.S. plants. If an especially cold winter occurs, the demand for electricity to warm homes and other facilities may overload a system that has been diminished in scope.
In the field of governance, things are not a great deal better in the UK. We have seen a second instalment of the CRU Climategate e-mails, which tell us little new but confirm the culture of shiftiness, obstruction and the stifling of debate seen in the first instalment. We still hear from time to time the mantra of, The science is settled, the debate is over from politicians and even from some scientists.
Censorship is the single most important tool of those who want to scare the masses. (Money, of course, would trump that, but there is no shortage of whole government departments devoted to pumping the climate gravy, so while money is theoretically vital, in this case its guaranteed. Censorship, though, is an entirely different story: it could disappear in an instant, and once gone, its hard to get back.)
16 Marshall Goldman, The Piratisation of Russia: Russian Reform Goes Awry, 2003.
Man Made Global Warming Is A Complete Fraud
A company in the flexible packaging industry asked its permitting agency to allow it to run a thermal oxidizer only when it runs solvent-based inks and coatings, since the increasingly popular water-based inks and coatings contain materials that can poison the oxidizer's catalyst. The change would have saved approximately 15,000 cubic feet of natural gas and 650 kWh of electricity each day. However, the company felt EPA would view the request as a change in the plant's method of operation, triggering NSR, even though actual emissions were expected to be reduced. The project did not go forward.