Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
A coral reef in Northern Australia severely damaged by warming seas has managed to completely heal itself in just 12 years, stunned researchers have found.
There are other concerns that should be taken into account. For example, you might move before you get your hands on all the payback, and the value added to your house by solar panels may not be fully recognised by buyers.
And how was last year? Also in 2012 tornadoes were relatively rare, as no year saw fewer tornadoes than 2012 since tornado recording began in 1954 . 2012 was the absolute low-point of the officially recorded tornado development of the past 60 years. The lilac-colored curve in Figure 2 represents the year 2012, which is not that far off from the current 2013 year (black).
This one is about 13 minutes of off the deep end conspiracy theory talk, but the video of the cars and lots (repeated) is rather good. Much easier to see the non-random nature of the distribution of car types.
An article published today in Nature notes multiple and substantial uncertainties and deficiencies of climate models which are" crucial for predicting global warming," due primarily to the low-resolution of today's models which is insufficient to skillfully simulate essential climate aspects such as
The new hottest ever record set in the UK was on August 1o, 2003.
This last sentence appears to me to be a complete fabrication (and is repeated in his Second Reply). Ive searched the NAS Panel report (Cubasch) and found no reference that remotely supports this claim. If anything, the NAS quote highlighted at the beginning endorsed the view exactly opposite to what Mann espouses here.
16.	"Continuous development of renewable energies " No, alternative energies are largely inefficient, costly, and unnecessary. Eatable raw materials, especially with so many starving throughout the world, should not be used for energy production.
In addition, computer models cant explain global warming from 1910-1940 without increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide levels; followed by a slight decline in global temperatures from 1945 to 1975 and increasing global temperatures from 1975-1998, at the same rate as the 1910-1940 increase, when atmospheric carbon dioxide levels increased about 16 percent.
There appear to have been more category four and category five storms post-1928 as compared to pre-1928 (12 vs. 9). But since that difference depends on measurements of maximum hurricane wind speeds, it could easily be questioned given dramatic technological improvements in modern hurricane data collection.
Rockst m and his co-authors are a prime example of what Roger Pielke, Jr., calls "stealth issue advocates," a role "characterized by the expert who seeks to hide his/her advocacy behind a facade of science." Stealth advocacy, Pielke says, is "the fastest route to pathologically politicizing science. It is also what gives scientists as advocates a bad name."
"PRESIDENT OBAMA: That's exactly right. So -- so part of what's happened also is some structural changes in the economy. Where it used to be that there was broad-based shared prosperity, now if companies are doing really well -- they're not necessarily hiring back workers. They're just figuring out how to do more with fewer workers. That may increase profits, but it doesn't help folks who are lookin' for a job. And often times that look -- puts a lot of pressure on the people who are already on the job."
Natural gas prices would still be above $8 per thousand cubic feet (million Btu), instead of in the $2.50-$3.00 range. America would still be looking overseas for fuels to replace the coal that the Obama EPA is effectively eliminating from our energy, electricity, employment and economic picture.
Included are updates of the weekly sea surface temperature anomalies for the four most-often-used NINO regions. Also included are updates of the GODAS map-based animations of sea surface height anomalies, T300 anomalies (depth-averaged temperature anomalies to 300 meters), sea surface temperature anomalies, and the cross sections of temperature anomalies at depth along the equator. These animations start in January 2014 for the full progress of this years event. Also included are a couple of graphs of the BOM Southern-Oscillation Index (SOI).
The Ukraine Crisis is an example of future events until the United States develops fossil fuel energy production superiority. The Ukraine Crisisjust as the 1973 Oil Embargo is a great gift to stop the environmental movement's eliminating fossil fuel production and insistence on relying on solar, wind, ethanol from corn, etc., as primary energy sources. These renewable energy sources are of no consequence in the conduct of foreign policy. Do we want peace and prosperity or "Green energy," poverty, and the possibility of nuclear war?
If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrarywise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see? Alice in Wonderland
Mercury Emissions have declined by 45 percent during the 1990s, most of which is due to the phase-out of municipal and medical waste incineration. As a result, consumers can feel comfortable consuming fish, such as salmon and trout. Recent concerns about the safety of fish due to high mercury levels have abated thanks to guidance published in 2004 by the EPA which emphasized that "for most people, the risk from mercury by eating fish and shellfish is not a health concern."
The scientific and economics literature provide a wide range of guidance on each of these factors. And from this guidance, Epstein et al. develop low, high, and best estimate determinations of the externalities from electricity generated from the burning of coal. Epstein et al. have a tendency to give more preference for research conducted by various members in or close to their group. And since Epsteins Center for Health and the Global Environment is focused on playing up the negative impacts of anthropogenic climate change, their best estimate tends to incorporate some rather high-end formulations.
In the 1970s, however, scientists began to realize that life had in fact greatly changed the Earth?s environment, starting more than a billion years ago. At the same time, evidence was building that burning fossil fuels was increasing the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide. In 1957, Charles Keeling began the first continuous measurements to study carbon-dioxide change over time at Mauna Loa, Hawaii. By 1973, he reported at a landmark conference at Brookhaven National Laboratory on ?Carbon and the Biosphere? that carbon dioxide showed a definite increase in 15 years, consistent with releases from burning fossil fuels. For those of us working on these issues, the scientific and environmental implications were vast.
To start with, the Washington "show" consisted of country stars Garth Brooks and Tricia Yearwood added to preexisting events with Indian artists. As Carter Wood observed at the National Association of Manufacturers' blog ShopFloor.org:
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Tree-Based Climate Reconstructions in CO2-Accreting Air
Aerosols - suspended particles - in the atmosphere have various effects. Black carbon soot absorbs sunlight and heats the world up, but most other kinds of aerosol tend to cool things down, mostly by presenting nuclei for clouds to form on and so reflecting heat back into space. There is widespread scientific agreement, even among firmly pro-warmist researchers, that aerosols have powerful effects - but just how much aerosol can be expected in the atmosphere of the future is not at all well known, and current models aren't thought to handle this factor at all well.
Environmental extremists take the opposite tack arguing that the only thing we have to fear is just about everything.
Because manufacturing is energy intensive, bringing industry back to the U.S. and/or attracting businesses to relocate here, will increase our energy consumption. As my column last week on the Clinton Foundation and Haiti makes clear, industry needs energy.
EIA: Clean energy increases electricity cost by 29%, cuts GDP growth
The Consensus on the Consensus: An Opinion Survey of Earth Scientists on Global Climate Change
How is two to five metres of ice going to melt this summer, with the sun setting for the winter andtemperaturesbelow 0C? They cant even keep their story straight, much less get it right.
Even when the source is in fact plainly stated on my slides, Abraham is prone to say I have not provided the source. I had shown a graph, which I had said was compiled by satellite, of temperatures at the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro, where there has been no warming for 30 years.
The most recent glaciation covered much of the northern hemisphere with miles-thick ice and wiped out the Neanderthalers; its sudden end about 12,000 years ago led into the present warm interglacial period, which we call the Holocene. According to the Milankovitch astronomical calculations, the next glaciation is just around the corner ??? or at least a millennium or so away.
Eco-activist Mark Lynas, has won the Royal Societys prize for popular science writing, for his book, Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet .
That hasnt stopped the White House, U.N. bureaucrats and green activists from using this consensus mantra as part of their effort to discredit dissenters. But now, with Seitzs help, 17,000 scientists have blown away the myth of any scientific consensus on global warming.
So, no climate that has been relatively stable can have high levels of positive feedback. And if a climate did have very high levels of positive feedback it would have gone off the rails a very long time ago either leading to runaway warming or runaway cooling until the climate had so changed that the positive feedback mechanism disappeared and it became stable again but with an entirely new temperature or state.
Second, California's economy has undergone a structural change, away from energy-intensive manufacturing to less energy-intensive services, which are also more reliant on having a consistent electricity supply. This shift is due in part to manufacturing firms leaving the state because of high energy prices.
Releasing the encrypted archive was a mere practicality. I didn't want to keep the emails lying around.
We predict a significant decrease in the area burnt, he said.
With all of their fancy equipment, forecasters can??t predict an historic ice storm just a few hours in advance ?? and you want me to believe that the IPCC can predict what??s going to happen a hundred years from now?
been shunted to Iraq, yet this raised the question of what could be achieved
What are our options? I could race back to the car, buy a pair of boots and hike up again. Dylan could go, flag a car, call the police. But I don't like the idea of separating. I imagine trudging back in socks, my feet starting to freeze. I imagine panicking as frostbite sets in, and starting to run. It's "To Build a Fire" all over again.
The numerical raw data are here, with some early stage statistics derived from the raw data. I make no claims about the number of significant figures carried, the distributions of data, etc. The purpose of this essay is to invite your comments.
Toward the end of that overview, she boldly and vigorously supports free speech. Moreover, she rejects the idea that academic freedom is meant to be a shield behind which publicly-funded professors hide.
???The reality of these key points is not just our opinion. The national academies of science of 32 nations, and every major scientific organization in the United States whose members include climate experts, have issued statements endorsing these points. The entire faculty of the Department of Atmospheric Sciences at Texas A&M; as well as the Climate System Science group at the University of Texas have issued their own statements [ here and here ) endorsing these views. In fact, to the best of our knowledge, there are no climate scientists in Texas who disagree with the mainstream view of climate science.??
The next question you may have: The El Nio released lots of warm water from below the surface of the western tropical Pacific, but how was that warm water created?
World Bank Serves as PR Firm in Support of Global Warming Treaty
Youre still the doctor and you still have to prescribe D or P (or nothing). No matter what you prescribe something will happen to the patient. What? And when? Perhaps the malady clears up, but how soon? Perhaps the illness is merely mitigated, but by how much? You not only have to figure out what treatment is better, but what will happen if you apply that treatment. This is a very tricky business, and is why, incidentally, there is such a variance in the ability of doctors. 3 Part of the problem is explicitly defining what is meant be the patient improves. There is ambiguity in that word improve , in what will happen with either of the drugs is administered.
NOAA ??? NASA Temperature Announcement: Perhaps few public statements exemplify the willingness of certain government agencies to mislead the public as clearly as this week??s joint announcement by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The press release reads as if the announcement was considered more an opportunity for self-promotion than a scientific statement.
Are environmentalists and government bureaucrats using global warming to cover up their share of responsibility for the wildfires that have displaced more than 500,000 people and destroyed more than 1,300 homes?
The same degree of judgment is required in practically every other area of medical practice. That doesnt mean that the tech enthusiasts wont continue to push for more computerization and may even succeed. But the quality of medical care will certainly be much the worse for it.
Its reached the point where our national masthead felt the need to issue a whole feature article rebutting their critics ( Climate debate is no place for hotheads ) which includes quote after quote of The Australians pro man-made-global-warming editorials. But why under the Goddess of Free Press should any serious newspaper feel required to declare their belief in a particular scientific theory?
Two major uncertainties lie in the statistical development, analysis and interpretation of tree-ring data for paleoclimate studies. First, there are nonclimatic influences on tree-ring records, including tree biology, size, age and the effects of localized forest dynamics ?? . Perhaps of more concern is that tree ring data reflect a nonlinear response to multivariate climate forcings.
Global-Warming Bill Contains Ethanol Subsidies, Which Cause Famine, Hunger, Food Riots, and Political Unrest
As the International Energy Agency recently put it in a recent report , increasing access to modern forms of energy is crucial to unlocking faster economic and social development in sub-Saharan Africa. Africa is awash with fossil fuels but not the capital to build plants to turn them into electricity.
A new paper published in Climate of the Past reconstructs the climate of southeast Tibet over 224 years from 1781-2005 and finds, " The climate appears drier and more stable in the 20th century than previously." The paper contradicts claims of climate alarmists that global warming causes an increase of extreme weather or extreme precipitation. In addition, the paper finds cloud cover decreased during the 20th century in comparison to the 19th century, which could amplify solar effects on temperature. According to the authors, " The occurrence ofyears of extreme low or high cloud index appears to havestrongly decreased since the 1920s, suggesting a relativelystable summer moisture condition in southeast Tibet in spiteof the increasing impact of human activities on climate."
Rarely does one see science get so harshly criticized.
Link to report: Renewable Energy: Lobbys Report More Fog than Light,
Little attention is given to the fact that oil production in the North Slope of Alaska has fallen from 2 million barrels per day in 1988 to 500,000 barrels per day in 2013. Alaska now ranks fourth as an oil-producing state. If oil flow through the Alaska Pipeline slows to 300,000 barrels per day, the oil may freeze and the pipeline may never be restarted. Oil in Northern Alaska is stranded. Steps should be made to allow oil production in a 2000-acre area of the 30,000-square-mile Alaskan National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR).
Today I have talked a lot about Utility MACT. Let's be sure we understand what it means one more time. Utility MACT is a rule by the EPA to end coal in America and cause electricity rates to skyrocket. My resolution, SJR 37, will allow the elected members of the Senate to stop the Obama-EPA. It is as simple as that.
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In both cases, plants absorb CO 2 through stomata in their leaves and they need a very large amount of water to grow. A higher CO 2 concentration allows them to reduce the number of stomata and save water, if I simplify things a bit. So one may say that a higher CO 2 helps the plants to deal with the shortage of water.
Oceanic Transport of Heat: Deep vs. Shallow Circulation
What justification does the Appendix give for choosing the trending autoregressive model? None. In other words, the model used by the IPCC is just adopted by proclamation. Science is supposed to be based on evidence and logic. The failure of the IPCC to present any evidence or logic to support its choice of model is a serious violation of basic scientific principles indeed, it means that what the IPCC has done is not science.
Were it easier to understand, this collective lapse in judgment could have been safely consigned to a mental file containing other oddities and caprices of the social sciences, and then forgotten. Yet even today, at a 20-year remove, the assumption that the Soviet Union would continue in its current state, or at most that it would eventually begin a long, drawn-out decline, seems just as rational a conclusion.
Hewitt, K. 2005. The Karakoram anomaly? Glacier expansion and the 'elevation effect,' Karakoram Himalaya. Mountain Research and Development 25 : 332-340.
The four Spanish researchers say that "elevated CO 2 caused cork oak seedlings to improve their performance in dry and high light environments to a greater extent than under well-irrigated and low-light conditions, thus ameliorating the effects of soil water stress and high light loads on growth ." Consequently, and because they believe these latter two stressful conditions are what "global change is likely to produce in the Mediterranean basin in the next decades," it can be appreciated that the ongoing rise in the air's CO 2 concentration should help the cork oak species to better deal with those stresses, if they actually do occur. Reviewed 25 April 2007
Met Office 2008 Forecast: Trend of Mild Winters Continues
Environmentalists and Democrats often cite a ?97 percent? consensus among climate scientists about global warming. But they never cite estimates that 95 percent of climate models predicting global temperature rises have been wrong.
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The global average anomalyis currently well above average, but unless this positive anomaly continues for the coming months, the absence of a clearlong term trend since1998 remains (although the interannual variations are remarkably large).
About eight percent of the contiguous U.S. was covered by snow at end of April, according to an analysis by the National Operational Hydrologic Remote Sensing Center.Snow coverage during the month peaked at 30.2 percent on April 6, after a late-season winter storm hit the Midwest and Plains.
Atmospheric pressure, gravity and temperatures Every planet with sufficient gravity to hold onto a substantial atmosphere shows a temperature gradient like the earth's, warmer as you approach the surface - and always far warmer than radiative physics allows. Every planet. Despite evidence now available to us, however, trace gas heating theory has a firm grip on the minds of skeptic and believer alike. Decades more look likely to pass before this 19th century conjecture is finally abandoned.
"According to the second law of thermodynamics such a planetary machine can never exist. Nevertheless, in almost all texts of global climatology and in a widespread secondary literature it is taken for granted that such mechanism is real and stands on a firm scientific foundation.
Moreover, Republicans have won House majorities in eight of the last ten elections on platforms similar to that of their presidential candidates. The party faces challenges but not doom.
Obviously there has been a lot of concern from climate change sceptics who brought this matter to the public eye. If you look at the wording of the emails, the fact is that Prof Jones talked of a trick to hide the decline.
It is long past the time to have a real energy policy, one that works for America, not against it.
The IPCC reached a climate sensitivity to CO2 of about 3C per doubling. More popular (at least in the media) catastrophic forecasts range from 5C on up to about any number you can imagine, way past any range one might consider reasonable.
Now that scientists have confirmed that global warming has been entirely missing since 1998, possibly the the lamestream press will finally gain the courage to finally report actual weather and climate facts, such as reporting the global cooling trend since 2002. This would be a huge improvement versus their modern method of doing climate science by press release.
The core from Lake Elgygytgyn shows a regular change between warm and cold periods in the Arctic thanks to changes in the Earths orbit, fluctuating greenhouse gases and changing solar activity. However from the back and forth in temperatures and precipitation, some extreme events stand out: The scientists have compared two normal warm periods the current one, which has been ongoing for the last 12,00 years, and another one 125,000 years ago, and compared them to the so-called super warm periods. These occurred 400,000 and one million years ago.
President Obamas Clean Power Plan: All cost, no benefit
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#4. The simple 5-year moving average curve during the very recent past indicates a declining period for 30-year changes, possibly signalling an extended cooling phase is upon us.
Scottish Power has announced that it is going to convert two of its coal-fired power stations to burn wood - coppiced trees in other words. They aim to replace fully 5% of their coal requirement (that's their coal requirement, not the country's coal requirement, mind) with this "carbon neutral fuel". In order to do this, they need to use 12% of the agricultural land in Scotland . So it's an expensive, but meaningless gesture. Update: It's a very expensive meaningless gesture. According to this , biomass fuel is more expensive than oil or coal, even if set-aside subsidies are still paid!! It's daylight robbery!
Now on Arctic sea ice, allow me to use the same NOAA scientific method and declare that the Arctic has experienced the slowest July ice melt ever! (Well, at least sofar).
Climate change science is in a period of negative discovery the more we learn about this exceptionally complex and rapidly evolving field the more we realize how little we know. Truly, the science is NOT settled.
The two photos were published across the world with the statement, "The blame can be put squarely on human activity. Our addiction to fossil fuels releases millions of tons of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere and this is what is causing temperatures to rise and our future to melt before our eyes."
So, when you hear the solar power proponents chirping about regulations that encourage investment in solar, incentives to help families, and mechanisms to increase deployment, remember they are taking our tax dollars and giving them to companies like Abengoa that get the funding because of connections. They win, while we lose.
14.	" highly risky use of atomic energy use." No, nuclear energy is not highly risky.