Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
Would it be considered "piling on" to remind Congress that last year's hurricane season predictions that is, a 95 percent chance of a very active season turned out to be a total bust? If hurricane experts armed with supercomputers can't predict a regional storm season six months into the future, why would anyone think that they can project global climate trends for the next 100 years?
Some 16 groups have sent a letter to the White House opposing a proposed LNG facility in Maryland on the grounds that approval runs contrary to the administration's effort to fight climate change. Ironically, the administration's attempt to curtail the use of coal here in the U.S. has resulted in a spurt in exports of this carbon-intensive fuel to overseas markets to which exports of natural gas are limited.
America as a whole awoke to the coldest it has been in November since 1976 38 years ago. The Lower-48 or CONUS spatially average temperature plummeted overnight to only 20F typical of mid-winter not November 18th!
If positive feedback was actually a problem, anthropogenic H2O would be causing more feedback than anthropogenic CO2. Does the climate care which greenhouse gas molecule is making things hotter?
This was a silly discussion, wasn't it? My point is that there exists an understandable answer and it dramatically differs from Brian Cox's answer.
Millard Public Schools will stop using a children's book about global warming but only until the district can obtain copies with a factual error corrected.
Obama Will Personally Attend UN Climate Summit- Will it be a Repaeat of Copenhagen?
Experts say that hurricanes are getting more intense due to increasing CO2. At some point they may even become as intense as they were 75 years ago, when CO2 was 310 ppm.
There are other reporters that make up history when it comes to congressional climate policy. Ezra Klein does it, too.
Bali followed this generic script. As Fiona Harvey and John Aglionby reported in the Financial Times: "At last, the world had agreed to talk again about the shape of a new international framework to avert dangerous climate change."
Rosenberg scheduled the forum for 1 PM Tuesday beneath the golden dome of the Massachusetts State House in Boston.
So the problem is that climate science went down the path of equating flux densities in their energy budgets, instead of the correct procedure of equating energy. If you equate energy youre fine; if you equate energy flux density, you create mistakes.
The Canadian statistics expert also writes that the proxies that Mann and Rahmstorf used do not contain any useful information on the past history of the AMOC .
> >> The global-mean surface air temperature anomaly for 1998
Green Stimulus Fails To Be "Timely, Targeted, and Temporary"
However, despite these changes in the Europe he extols so often, President Obama says this is America's "Sputnik moment." He wants the United States to "invest" in "the Apollo projects of our time" spending countless billions of additional taxpayer dollars to "stimulate" pricey renewable energy, high-speed rail, climate change "prevention" and other projects. His April 13 budget speech reiterated this commitment.
Theres only one small problem: The lesson in living repsonsibly to protect the climate has backfired. The schools ventilation is so bad that it is making students and teachers get ill by the score. Hat-tip: EIKE .
As I have presented on numerous occasions over the past 5 years, ocean heat content data and satellite-era sea surface temperature data both indicate that naturally occurring processes are responsible for the warming of the global oceans, not manmade greenhouse gases. If this topic is new to you, please refer to the free illustrated essay The Manmade Global Warming Challenge (42MB) for an introduction. The discussions and documentation are much more detailed in my ebook Who Turned on the Heat?
There's an old adage that "no news is good news." In today's world of fear-injected reporting, the principle should perhaps be restated as "good news is no news."
Kenneth P. Green is a resident scholar at AEI.
The punch line here is obvious: Numbers don't lie. And when it comes to discussions about energy and climate change, we need a lot more numbers and a lot less hyperbole and wishful thinking.
There are adjustments on top of adjustments. Homogenised records are being used to correct raw records. Some man-made adjustments can infect data for miles around
If miracles happened for Mann, they came in the form of Barry Saltzman. You see, this struggling student's career was transformed the moment Saltzman became his Ph.D adviser. Only after Saltzman applied his influence were Mann's lofty credentials "rushed through." Mann then turned himself into a makeshift tree ring counter, and overnight became the iconic figure in the IPCC Third Report (2001). The rest is history, as they say."
Wind power will push up electricity prices, it shows a underskning made of Freningen Swedish Landscape Protection. Wind power's high production costs and irregular supply of electricity contributes to hjda electricity prices and smre million. To continue subsidizing this industry is economically and miljmssigt madness. Lt is not television hectoliters in the wall become a hole in the head.
Armed individuals acting on behalf of the "New Forests Company" trying to earn carbon credits which are being routinely changed to cash through fraudulent schemes in many countries of the world came to a village in Uganda, shot a couple of children, and flattened the village. If you have the nerves, read the article to see details.
What right does the West have to dictate poverty to the rest of the world?
CO2 Science Videos Ask Key Questions about Copenhagen Climate Conference
But that is only part of the story. What is more relevant is that an intense debate about climate change and the alleged solutions to temperature increase has been going on in Italy in the last few years, that led several policy-makers and other stakeholders to endorse non-alarmist, if not openly skeptic, positions with regard to climate policies.
The struggle to preserve our constitutional system of liberty and representative government is a great unfolding political war, and the outcome is far from certain. Those armed with Fonte's analysis, however, will be well-armed and heavily armored for the battles ahead.
Throughout the rest of the world, governments own all mineral resourcesregardless of who owns the landwhich discourages drilling. Foreign companies are building factories in the United States because our energy prices are one-third of the costs experienced throughout the rest of the world.
They also differ in their estimates about how much of the 0.8C rise in the past 150 years is caused by human activities and not natural variation.
Good numbers of polar bears are showing up in and around the Churchill area
But, I also know the intercept of 78 units is not exact. So, I shifted the time and found the standard error in the best fit curve running through the central time point: 2.22 units. I used these to find my uncertainty in the expected value based on the fit. Thats shown in purple.
Its justified on the basis that environmentalists are the good guys, while farmers exploit natural resources for profit.
The eco-themed science fiction movie Avatar helped cement James Cameron's standing as one of Hollywood's most strident environmentalists.
The infamous Hockey Stick Graph (Mann et al.) has been comprehensively discredited and has been removed by the IPCC from their 4th Report. It is therefore surprising to still find it inthe governmentssection on the scientific justification of Climate Change.
7. WARMING CAUSES CO2 TO RISE, NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND The rate of rise in atmospheric CO2 is currently 2 ppm/yr, a rate which is 100 times as fast as any time in the 300,000 year Vostok ice core record. And we know our consumption of fossil fuels is emitting CO2 200 times as fast ! So, where is the 100x as fast rise in todays temperature causing this CO2 rise? Cmon people, think. But not to worryCO2 is the elixir of lifelets embrace more of it!
Informing legislators and regulatory agencies of research findings.
10. Video of the Day (below). Watch the "Un-building of an ink jet printer," from Matthias Wandel's Woodworking for Engineers blog. As he tears down an HP ink jet printer/scanner, Matthias comments on the ingenious ways HP has removed costs through eliminating many small parts such as springs for buttons or clips for wires, and switching to cheaper DC motors with encoders versus the older stepper motors. Those innovative cost savings in production are passed along to consumers, who can buy an HP inkjet printer for as low as $29.99!
Berresford "Berry' Bingham, political director of the SEIU Local 1021, found slain in his home:
Throughout the 1990s, this infatuation with globalization and a "time-space compression" in the virtual world led most Westerners to ignore the twofold epochal change taking place in the real world: the transfer of the center of gravity of the world economy from the Atlantic to the Pacific, with "three billion new capitalists" poised to put an end to three centuries of Euro-Atlantic economic primacy; and the rise of a "second nuclear age" in Asia and with it, the concomitant end of three centuries of Western military superiority.1
In Matt Ridley's latest column, he explains how even though environmentalists claim the moral high ground, their policies actually defend the wealthy at the expense of the world's poorest people, here's an excerpt:
Other new studies have debunked many of the dubious claims made by the global warming alarmists. For example, the claim that droughts would be more frequent, severe and wide ranging during global warming, has now being exposed as fallacious. A new paper in Geophysical Research Letters authored by Konstantinos Andreadis and Dennis Lettenmaier finds droughts in the U.S. becoming ???shorter, less frequent and cover a small portion of the country over the last century.?? www.worldclimatereport.com/index.php/2006/10/13/where-are-the-droughts
In September 2009 the IPCC were caught promoting a Wikipedia graph . The Hanno graph was placed in the UN Climate Change Science Compendium, but in the cold light of day ended up being a Wikipedia graph done by an ecologist called Hanno Sandvik. It was based on data-sets already known to be deeply flawed, the Jones and Mann set (the Hockey Stick), and the Briffa set (the other Hockey stick). The Jones and Mann set used trees that grow faster when CO2 increases, Mann left out some data he said he included, and the statistical methods used were so erroneous and powerful they created a hockey stick even if they were used on random red noise data sets instead of real tree rings. The Briffa set turned out to be heavily influenced by just one tree in remote northern Russia. I??ve covered the flaws in the Mann graph here , and the Briffa graph here.
The importance of the vote on S.J.Res.26 is hard to exaggerate. Nothing less than the integrity of our constitutional system of separated powers and democratic accountability hangs in the balance.
"This is huge. It means that Republicans are going to insist that climate and energy policy be made by the people's elected representatives rather than by non-elected judges, litigators, and bureaucrats. It means that EPA regulation of carbon dioxide (CO2) under the Clean Air Act will be an issue in the 2010 elections. It means that citizens will be able to hold accountable and punish at the ballot box any Member of Congress who votes against Barton's resolution of disapproval and in favor of the compliance burdens, rising energy costs, and litigation risks to the economy that EPA regulation of CO2 unavoidably entails."
Proof-stories are those that say The science predicted this-and-such, and here is the evidence verifying the prediction. These were common in the early days of the panic, back in the late 90s when temperatures cooperated with climate models, but are now as rare as conservatives in Liberal Arts departments.
BOTTOM LINE ON THE WARMING OF THE REST-OF-THE-WORLD SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES
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Additionally, Kerry acknowledges: "We are all in this one together. No nation can stand alone." After 15 years of supporters' best efforts, the global community has rejected the Kyoto Protocolwhich aimed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from industrialized countries on the theory that it would stop global warming. It expired December 31, 2012. The world's biggest emitters refused to sign on, the U.S. never ratified it, and Canada has since completely backed out. The U.K. is likely not far behind.
By Bruce Edward Walker, Action Institute, Aug 14, 2015
"Humans will need two Earths by 2030' (alternative headline: People need to read more Julian Simon):
Here we explain that the root cause of the 2000-2015 western Pacific Ocean warming is increased heat flow from deep ocean volcanoes, hydrothermal vents, and heat emitting fault zonesnot man-made atmospheric global warming. Data supporting this contention are diverse, reliable, and abundant. A summary of key points substantiating a geological heat flow origin to warming in the western Pacific Ocean:
And after the psychiatrists arrive, then what? Why - family planning, that's what . Lifesite ;
Early in the interview Schlchterreminds us that during Roman times in the Alps the forest line was much higher than it is today; there were hardly any glaciers. Nowhere in the detailed travel accounts from Roman times are glaciers mentioned . He criticizes todays climate scientists for focusing on a time period that is indeed much too short .
"The longer the planners delay, the more difficult will they find it to cope with climatic change once the results become grim reality."
Slowly but gradually, Europe is awakening to a green energy crisis, an economic and political debacle that is entirely self-inflicted.
People whose mothers never went to church are twice as likely to cohabit than those whose mothers went more than once a week. The direct effects of churchgoing are even more dramatic. A woman who never attends church is seven times more likely to cohabit than one who goes weekly. Cohabitation in turn affects marriage and divorce, making marriage less likely and divorce more likely. Churchgoers have happier, more stable marriages, contributing to the chance they'll have more children.
7 Richard Betts, "Should Strategic Studies Survive?" World Politics, 1997, and "Is Strategy an Illusion?" International Security (Fall 2000). William Anthony Hay and Harvey Sicherman, eds., Is There Still a West? The Future of the Atlantic Alliance, 2007
/s/ Gerald C. Griffin JSC, Apollo Flight Director, and Director of Johnson Space Center, 22 years
be groomed in turn, it receives only a brief grooming and usually
See links under Challenging the Orthodoxy NIPCC and Challenging the Orthodoxy.
In short, the parable of the British, that of Beckham, Diana, but even Thatcher and also Blair, and 'always the same: Novita', Enthusiasm, Celebs', Idolatry, Doubts, Revelations, Criticism, Obsession, I hate (Regret and then, after his death). A comparison with the beautiful country can 'help you understand what may be the peculiar British attitude towards public figures.
"Thank you, David Cameron, leader of "the greenest government ever." Thank you, Ed Miliband, father of the Climate Change Act, the most expensive suicide note in history. Between you, you seem determined to switch off our lights, lock the door and throw away the key. We owe you more than we can say."
The actual-to-future-potential method of estimating the change in emissions means EPA can disregard the actual change in emissions caused by modifications, virtually negating Congress's intent to have NSR apply only when modifications are likely to significantly increase emissions.29 Combined with EPA's narrow interpretation of RMR&R;, the actual-to-future-potential methodology means industries where changes in production practices must be made frequently to respond to seasonal changes in product demand or government regulations, such as refineries, face virtually continuous NSR permitting requirements. Two examples demonstrate the delays and costs imposed by this arrangement:
15. Meadows, Rander, and Meadows, Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update, 257258.
Murray, an energy expert at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, lives a low-carbon lifestyle. He loves nature and the outdoors. He's practically a tree-hugger. Nevertheless, he makes clear, "I am not an environmentalist."
We see a real plummet over the last few months, which by the way was anticipated at the beginning of the year as we reported here .
colleagues are spending this week as I am: It is the first 100 days landmark,
The panel is clearly right that climate change presents a gradually growing risk to the United States. In fact, though, the Risky Business report is a poor guide to managing that risk. The report's estimates, for instance, exclude America's great capacity to adapt to climate change, which is among the highest of all countries. The U.S. economy commands a vast stock of capital with which to prevent harm from climate change or to repair it. The openness of U.S. markets greatly augments the process of adjusting to a changing climate. And open access to the political process is already nudging state and local governments toward taking the needed countermeasures. By not quantifying the likely effects of these factors, the Risky Business study built-in a bias toward greatly overstating the actual risks.
He doesnt seem to recognize that a major hit on the US economy that is chump change for climate control isnt a good idea. Propaganda doesnt require a lot of though.
Illustration: The world in chains by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times.
On the face of it, since Belinda said the reason Australian cities are warmer than the countryside is urbanisation, this work weakens the case for disastrous future warming caused by humanity. But it is a conditional conclusion which depends on the actual quantity of warming caused by the UHI effect.
Because of this development, the reconstructions of the temperatures during the last 1,000 years suddenly speak against the idea that CO2 has a significant impact on the climate because they demonstrate that the climate has been doing the same thing for many centuries - changing by half a degree per century or so, in relatively random but not quite uncorrelated directions. And because this new argument is inconvenient, Gavin Schmidt tries to sling mud on the whole framework and all the logical arguments that have failed to confirm his predetermined conclusion. That's why he's slinging mud on the importance of "unprecedentedness", too.
Erroneous Climate Science Statement By Tom Karl, Director Of The National Climate Data Center And President Of The American MeteorologicalSociety
As the CO 2 content of the air rises ever higher, soybean plants should maintain higher rates of photosynthesis than they do now, even in the presence of environmental stresses including high temperature, water deficit or both of these growth-reducing phenomena. Of all environmental stresses, water stress may be the most important, as water limits the growth of plants in many areas around the globe. The results of this research suggest that, in the words of the authors, "the deleterious effects of short-term water deficit on the rate of leaf carbon assimilation in future climates of elevated CO 2 could be rather less than at the present." And it is just such a phenomenon that may allow plants of the future to recover quicker, following periods of water stress, and bring them back to an enhanced level of photosynthetic activity that allows them to sequester even greater quantities of carbon from the air than they do today. Reviewed 15 December 1998
This post provides an update on the progress of the evolution of the 2014/15 El Nio with data through the beginning of August 2014. The post is similar in layout to the May , the June and the July updates. The post includes 3 gif animations and 13 illustrations so the post might take a few moments to load on your browser. Please click on the illustrations and animations to enlarge them.
From banning supersize drinks to banning supersize storms?
1. Unlike annual compiled CO2 emissions and CO2 monthly atmospheric levels, recent sulfur emissions and SO2 atmospheric aerosol levels are guesstimates. This study is based on guesstimates, which are based on tenuous assumptions, which are likely not a reflection empirical reality.
That they fancy themselves as objective is embarrassing to me. No, I don?t consider myself completely objective either. But at least I can entertain alternative possibilities regarding the sensitivity of the climate system. If a scientist entertains anything that smacks of ?skepticism?, however, they are not allowed to play in the IPCC sandbox.
Update #2 On GCCI Electrical Grid Disruption Chart
There is, again not surprisingly, a very good temperature forecast made by a nave forecast model which is based upon the idea that the temperature next year will remain the same as that of the previous year (see Carter, pp. 128-129).
Larger Image: GMST vs Time March 25, 2008
This greatly reduces a bank's risk from making these loans, but can also create a substantial "moral hazard" because of the taxpayer backing. As I wrote in The Wall Street Journal in 2007, "FHA-insured loans have also been at the center of some of the worst excesses of the housing boom, including mortgage fraud, loans made without income verification, and property "flipping' with inflated appraisal." The FHA received a $1.7 billion taxpayer bailout in 2013.
If non-radiating O2is exchanged for absorbing/emitting CO2, emissivity, e, of planet to space must increase.
It is a moral imperative to keep the power flowing. If our forefathers a century ago had worried about the side effects of using all that energy and set in place restrictions to stop it, millions no, billions would have suffered as a result.
Suspend disbelief for a moment and just assume that man-made CO2 causes global warming...
"And after two and a half years they continue to target the American people with their job-killing radical socialist agenda. This week the extremists in the Obama EPA pushed new rules on 26 states that will kill thousands of jobs, cost billions of dollars and increase electricity rates for every family."
"My cover story for the March print edition on the California high-speed rail boondoggle is now available on the main site. This project is worth keeping an eye on, because it has already claimed $3.2 billion from the Obama administration and hopes to get at least $18 billion from federal taxpayers in the years to come. In the more immediate term, California is angling for some of the high-speed rail stimulus funds that Florida Gov. Rick Scott rejected. In a broader sense, the California high-speed rail effort is a case study in what happens when liberal fantasy confronts reality."
Higgins may only have a relatively small band of followers, but her plan to convince the UN to accept ?ecocide? as a fifth ?crime against peace?, which could be tried at the International Criminal Court, chimes with mainstream green thinking. As the Guardian reported, supporters of a new ecocide law believe it could also be used to prosecute ?climate deniers?.
Other EPA rules are equally suspect. Its mercury regs are based on an imaginary group of US women who catch and eat 300 pounds of fish annually and whose children would supposedly improve their IQs by an un-measurable 0.00209 points if coal-fired power plants are shut down. As to soot, EPA's illegal experiments on 296 people found that even "dangerous" or "lethal" exposures harmed no one.
Spending billions of dollars on a penal carbon dioxide tax fails the cost:benefit test. Such a measure acts only to reduce Australias wealth, and therefore our capacity to address the real-world problems of natural climate change and hazard.