Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
CEI: Most Americans are going to be receiving tax rebate checks from the federal government in the next few months, partly to refund too much money that was taken in taxes and also partly to spur consumer spending this summer. What are your thoughts on this move?
Some of this information may come through observed, harmful localized shifts in weather patterns convincingly attributable to global climate change. Credible linkages between local weather events and broader global climate changes require positive research, not advocacy. Indeed, reduction in regional scientific uncertainty can come from more research on regional climatic feedbacks from GHG accumulations and their economic consequences.
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In different areas of the country, heavy snowfalls have hindered road traffic.
The largest center for global-warming research in the UK is the Hadley Centre. The Hadley Centre employs a statistician, Doug McNeall. After my op-ed piece appeared, Doug McNeall and I had an e-mail discussion about it. A copy of one of his messages is attached. In the message, he states that the statistical modela straight line with AR(1) noiseis simply inadequate. (He still believes that the world is warming, primarily due to computer simulations of the global climate system.)
A gentlemanly discussion of climate change: S. Fred Singer v. John Nielsen-Gammon
11 The Pharisee stood up and prayed about himself: `God, I thank you that I am not like other menrobbers, evildoers, adulterersor even like this tax collector.
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Can there then be too much carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, as some would have it? Hardly, since green leaves and phytoplankton love CO2. As it is said, leaves are busy. Green leaves take in carbon dioxide and produce oxygen as a by-product. This is a well-known biological fact. What is not so well known is it that the enormous masses of the many different types of phytoplankton in the oceans are also actively producing Oxygen. This is the great carbon cycle, produced by Great Nature!
Shlaes's achievement stands out for the devastating effect of its understated prose and for its wide sweep of characters and themes. It deserves to become the preeminent revisionist history for general readers.
Zee News Sea-level warming forces seabirds to abandon nesting grounds .
The ?premeditated? science is a major culprit for the climate-change concerns, according to Ball. But he also blames the media.
NSR was adopted at a time when forecasts of a "post-industrial era" were naively thought to justify anti-manufacturing policies. Balancing costs against benefits was thought to be unnecessary, and the effects of regulations on the incentives of regulators and members of the regulated community alike were poorly understood and often dismissed as unimportant.
The carbon policies of the Australian government will destroy regional industry.
These costs hogtie innovation, job creation and economic growth. They make millions unemployed.
The tiny effect of rising CO2 levels on climate contrasts sharply with their enormous benefits to plant growth and agriculture. Not only is more CO2 greening deserts, forests and grasslands; it is increasing grain and food yields worldwide, and helping people in developing nations live longer, healthier lives.
This rapid warming of the 13th century was followed by a period of extended warmth that lasted until an abrupt cooling event occurred around 1375, which made the following decade one of the coldest in the record. This event signaled the onset of the Little Ice Age, which lasted for 400 years, until a gradual warming trend began around 1800, which was followed by a dramatic cooling event in 1900 that brought temperatures back to levels similar to those of the Little Ice Age. This cold regime lasted until about 1950, whereupon temperatures warmed for about two decades but then tended downwards again, all the way to the end of the record in 1990. Thus, in this part of the Arctic, the Medieval Warm Period was also warmer than it is there currently.
The fiddling with temperature data is the biggest science scandal ever
Deutsch and Marletto also write kilotons of bullit about the meaning of entanglement (they want to say that it's not mysterious but their babbling is only meaningful if you are ready to think that it is mysterious, so the goals of their "explanations" are internally logically inconsistent) and the "reasons" why quantum mechanics prohibits cloning (founders of quantum mechanics surely knew that the evolution in quantum mechanics is given by a linear evolution operator and because a copying is a tensor square, a quadratic operation, it clearly cannot result from the linear evolution). Why would they write lots of confusing it about these matters that are in principle trivial?
McCook et al. state, The economic value of a healthy GBR to Australia is enormous, currently estimated to be about A$5.5 billion annually.Relative to the revenue generated by reef tourism, current expenditure on protection is minorTourism accounts for the vast majority of reef-based income and employment. income from tourism is estimated to be about 36 times greater than commercial fishing . These claims are highly misleading .
Thereputable climate science community should collectively cringe with embarrassment.
The British Government's Sustainable Development Commission is worried that the United Kingdom will not be able to meet its Kyoto targets because its economy is behaving in too American a fashion. The Commission, chaired by former Green Party head Jonathan Porritt, frets in a report to Prime Minister Tony Blair released April 14 that, "American-style patterns of growth in aviation, road transport and fuel use are "wholly unsustainable' and will damage the quality of life of present and future generations."
You might note Graglia and Nagel are both justly cynical about their colleagues at the Bar and on the BenchI am an inactive attorney for 36 years and share their negative sentiments.
The latest nail for the CO2-GHT coffin has been contributed by Dr. Charles R. Anderson with his article "The Most Essential Physics of the Earth's Temperature and Why Carbon Dioxide is No Threat to the Earth." This comes hard on the heels of a recent paper on "The phase relation between atmospheric carbon dioxide and global temperature" by Dr. Ole Humlum and coworkers. Their work showed conclusively that the regular seasonal variations in the atmospheric CO2 levels are lagging the sea surface temperatures by 9.5 to 12 months not the other way.
Yet it has become acceptable, particularly in green circles, to argue that the third world should stay poor, to contend that the poorest of the poor may need a little growth, but the rest of the world should not aspire to American living standards.
The outgoing Congress nearly enacted a bill that would have provided much needed congressional checks on EPA actions. The Murkowski bill fell just short in a Senate dominated by partisan Democrats. The incoming Senate should be far more supportive of such legislation, especially in the face of EPA and other attempts to override the will of Congress and the American people.
When you hear an eminent physicist speak such common sense, its like a breath of fresh air amid the fetid stench of climate science.
Check to see if Climate Hustle is being shown in your area and watch it on May 2 so you aren't taken in by the sleight of hand.
Yet it is not as if we have no experience with uranium mining, which is in fact relatively harmless. Handled properly, the yellowcake that is extracted is no more hazardous than regular household chemicals (and unlike coal, it won't smolder and combust).
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13) If Not Humans, What could Have Caused Recent Warming? This is one of my areas of research. I believe that natural changes in the amount of sunlight being absorbed by the Earth due to natural changes in cloud cover are responsible for most of the warming. Whether that is the specific mechanism or not, I advance the minority view that the climate system can change all by itself. Climate change does not require an external source of forcing, such as a change in the sun.
The term, Izairig, which means blue in the local Kuwaiti dialect, was applied due to the color of peoples skin during the short extreme seasonal period.
So it is sadly little surprise that David Bellamy, one of the most recognisable naturalists and botanists in the UK, and whom I used to watch without fail on TV when I was a kid, has been shunned for over 10 years by the BBC because of his views on climate change, as the UK Daily Mail reports:
As Jonah Goldberg, author of the scholarly best-seller "Liberal Fascism" notes, "This is exactly the argument that was made by American fans of Mussolini in the 1920s." Mussolini, we were told then, made the trains run on time. He drained the Pontine marshes. He got things done while Americans, with their chaotic democratic politics, dithered.
To state the problem another way, 202 of the CAA requires the Administrator to exercise her "judgment." Yet in every instance, the Endangerment Proposal and TSD simply defer to the judgment of the self-proclaimed scientific "consensus" represented by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the U.S. Climate Science Change Program (CSCP).
I agree with the importance of extreme events as foci for public and
What about the four models that show a negative imbalance during our base period of 1996-2015? If those models are correct, then the hypothesis of human-induced global warming has a very big problem. A negative imbalance indicates that presently more energy is being reflected and emitted by the planet than is being received from the sunand that our emissions of greenhouse gases are returning the Earth to a balanced energy budget.
\] as I mentioned earlier. The commutator of space-like-separated operators vanishes. On the left-hand side, the operator \(\Phi(y)\) is on the right side of the product so it acts on ket vectors before \(\Phi(x)\) which is the factor on the left side. However, the product is the same, regardless of the order, which means that the values of \(\Phi(y)\) don't depend on whether we did a measurement of \(\Phi(x)\) before or not.
Similarly, how much confidence should climate modellers have in Hansen's 1988 prediction? As the Hargreaves paper cited notes, Hansen's GCM overpredicted warming by some 40% as assessed in its first 20 years. This was still better than a naive prediction of no warming, but was still a long way out. Moreover, it should now be possible to redo Hargreaves' assessment at the 25-year mark and it is more than likely that the naive prediction will now outperform the GCM.
During the period from 7500 yr BP to ca. 3000 yr BP temperatures rose about 2C more, causing another upward shift in the forest line of about 300-400 m higher than today, and thereby reducing the area occupied by pramo. Finally, at about 2900 yr BP, there was a noticeable lowering of the temperature that marked the last downward movement of the forest and pramo belts to their present-day positions.
Separating natural and anthropogenically-forced decadal climate variability
hands try to approach questions of military force with calm prudence believing force should be used because of compelling circumstances, not
Unsurprisingly, the BBC refuse to tell the whole story. The wood recycling plant is actually used for turning wood into biomass pellets for use at a biomass power station at Sheffield , about 20 miles away, and which is due to open soon.
Arctic sea ice extent is currently running 577,000 sq km above 2006 levels, and higher than any year since then except for 2008.
With the possible emergence of a NATO Security Providers Forum consisting of the leading contributors, three key questions are likely to keep the Allies busy in the coming years. What would happen with the four NATO Partners who are also SCO members in the event the Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council was to be disbanded in favor of a Security Providers Forum. What will be the nature of the articulation between the North Atlantic Council, the Security Providers Forum, and the NATO-Russia Council? Has the time come for NATO to adopt an EU-style, "variable geometry" decision-making process? At the same time, the debate on the future Global NATO should not be limited to these organizational matters.
The Christmas travel plans of thousands of Britons are in disarray after snow left Heathrow Airport all but shut.
Maybe Hansen will be proved right. But these days he seems more interested in ideology than science.
1. Fear of large multinational companies. Are they also afraid of Toyota cars and Boeing airplanes? Both companies provide products in exchange for cash. If a farmer didn't want the biotech product, he needn't buy it.
Michigan Has Cooled Eighteen Degrees Since The Ice Age Scare!
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To get to the truth, I emailed a sample of scientists whos papers were used in the study and asked them if the categorization by Cook et al. (2013) is an accurate representation of their paper. Their responses are eye opening and evidence that the Cook et al. (2013) team falsely classified scientists papers as endorsing AGW, apparently believing to know more about the papers than their authors.
Knee-jerk reactions from Boxer, Markey to EPA decision on CO2
On May 6 the same date as the Wells Report was released, Exponent submitted a report on simulations in which three untrained employees attempted to deflate 12 balls in 1 minute 40 seconds with a standard needle. The subjects, after one try, achieved remarkably consistent results, both between subjects and between balls. The average deflation was 0.76 psi with a standard deviation of 0.11 psi. This finding was not discussed in the Wells Report, but it poses a conundrum: the observed variability in Exponents washroom simulations is much too low to explain observed Patriot variability.
More importantly, solar contributes even less during winter months, when demand is highest. In Q1 this year, for instance, solar ran at only 4% of capacity.
China has resisted an absolute cap on its greenhouse gas emissions, like those developed countries are expected to implement. It says a cap would be unfair because it contributed less to the problem historically, its emissions per capita are still relatively low and it needs leeway to grow its economy.
So what can we expect from the new GOP candidate when it comes to climate change and science? First note, however, that his Democrat opponent is alsono stooge of the warmists hoax.
?One dollar can save a life? ? the opposite must also be true.
First, I have no basis from which to dispute Nielsen-Gammons opening sentence of, When driven by observed oceanic variability, the models do a great job simulating the atmospheric response. I have not investigated how well the models actually perform this function. But thats neither here nor there. Why? Well, if the hindcast and projected representations of sea surface temperatures created by the models are not realistic, then the atmospheric response to the modeled oceanic variability would also fail to be realistic.
Sterns central conclusion that If we dont act, the overall costs and risks of climate change will be equivalent to losing at least 5% of global GDP each year now and forever whereas the costs of action reducing greenhouse gas emissions to avoid the worst impacts of climate change can be limited to around 1% of GDP each year is found to be entirely fallacious.
Agencies presumably could adopt absurd or otherwise unreasonable interpretations of statutory provisions and then edit other statutory provisions to mitigate the unreasonableness. Allowing agencies to exercise that kind of statutory re-writing authority could significantly enhance the Executive Branch?s power at the expense of Congress?s and thereby alter the relative balance of powers in the administrative process. I would not go down that road.
Plants apparently love the stuff. They generally prefer long, warm growing seasons, too.
This is east of London, is the tidal lower Thames close to the estuary. It is going to be permanently humid, including any effect from the elevation of the temperature of the Thames, heat from London.
With more territory thus available to them, their "foothold" on the planet becomes ever stronger, fortifying them against forces that might otherwise lead to their extinction.
(p16-17) The issue revolved around a tree ring series that had been used to reconstruct temperatures of the past . This series diverged dramatically from instrumental temperatures in the last half of the twentieth century, experiencing a sharp decline during a period when instrumental temperatures were rising. Showing this divergence would have raised a major question mark over the reliability of tree ring temperature reconstructions since, if there is a divergence between tree rings and instrumental records in modern times, it cannot be said with any certainty that such divergences did not also occur in the past, rendering the temperature reconstruction of questionable utility
Jan 2010: One of the report??s co-authors, hydrologist David Post, told The Canberra Times there was ??no evidence?? linking drought to climate change in eastern Australia, including the Murray-Darling Basin.
Alcohols like ethanol and its chemical cousins make effective fuels because they give off a lot of energy when burned, just as liquid fossil fuels do. The advantage of alcohol is that it is liquid at room temperature, which makes it easy to transport and handle.
Since the Guardian was not the only European paper to feature this storyGermany's Der Spiegel cautioned "A Tropical Germany by 2100?"perhaps it's not surprising that the U.N. report inspired politicians of various hues, across Europe and the world, to seek controls on carbon emissions and the fossil fuels that create them. The British environment minister called for an "international political commitment to take action." The head of the German environment agency said, "We must all change our environmental behavior considerably." So much was said about the need for "action" and "change," in fact, that it's a wonder the resultant hot air didn't make temperatures rise higher.
It started when I said something like: the models do not work or if you predict warming and that predicted warming doesnt happen then the model/theory is invalid and not science. Well apparently the greenblob also work Saturdays, because one quite obnoxious individual just kept coming back with a whole lot of twaddle. In the past Ive found that if I just keep to the point and asked them to show me that the global average surface temperature had warmed by at least the lowest prediction of the IPCC prediction they would eventually give up.
" analyzed storminess across the whole of southeast (SE) Australia using extreme (standardized seasonal 95th and 99th percentiles) geostrophic winds deduced from eight widespread stations possessing sub-daily atmospheric pressure observations dating back to the late 19th century The four researchers report that their results "show strong evidence for a significant reduction in intense wind events across SE Australia over the past century." More specifically, they say that "in nearly all regions and seasons, linear trends estimated for both storm indices over the period analyzed show a decrease," while "in terms of the regional average series," they say that "all seasons show statistically significant declines in both storm indices, with the largest reductions in storminess in autumn and winter."
EPA analyst exposes climate science takeover
According to anthropogenic global warming (AGW) theory, carbon dioxide increases the potential of water vapor to absorb and emit IR radiation as a consequence of the overlapping absorption/emission spectral bands. I have determined the total emissivity of a mixture of gases containing 5% of water vapor and 0.039% of carbon dioxide in all spectral bands where their absorptivities/emissivities overlap. The result ofmy calculations is that carbon dioxide reducesthe total absorptivity/emissivity of the water vapor, working like a coolant, not a warmer of the atmosphereand the surface.
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The writer is president of the George C. Marshall Institute, a nonpartisan think tank. He contributed this comment to the International Herald Tribune.
The problem is that upwards of one million non-industrial facilities ? office buildings, fast food restaurants, schools, hospitals, large houses of worship, heated agricultural facilities ? have the potential to emit enough CO2 annually (250 tons) to qualify as ?major? stationary sources. Apply PSD to CO2, and permitting agencies would have to process an estimated 81,000 PSD permits annually instead of about 280. Without massive expansions in agency budgets and staff, ever-growing bottlenecks and delays would obstruct environmental enforcement and freeze economic development, contravening congressional intent.
(e) Our PR response to Fakegate has been called brilliant even by the folks at DesmogBlog. History will record it as another major scandal that helped bring down the man-made global warming movement. But the MSM and environmental groups doubled down on their strategic mistake, understanding that the only way to prevent Fakegate from becoming another Climategate is to take down Heartland and its network of scientists and donors. Their tactics compelled us to match their intensity.
HEM's Macroeconomic Activity Module makes use of the IHS Global Insight model, which is used by government agencies and Fortune 500 organizations to forecast the manifestations of economic events and policy changes on notable economic indicators. As with NEMS, the methodologies, assumptions, conclusions, and opinions in this report are entirely the work of CDA statisticians and economists and have not been endorsed by and do not necessarily reflect the view of the owners of the IHS Global Insight model.
Principal Research Scientist, Ice Cores and Climate, Australian Antarctic Division, Hobart may well be right is linking the events we will look for a peer reviewed paper on the subject.
What does Inhofe have in his power? Andrew Wheeler, EPW staff director when Inhofe was chairman previously, says: "I know he won't hesitate to conduct oversight of the Democratic Obama Administration."
While all the press is about the observed declines in Arctic sea ice extent in recent decades, little attention at all is paid to the fact that the sea ice extent in the Antarctic has been on the increase. No doubt the dearth of press coverage stems from the IPCC treatment of this topic.
Once more, we see that there is absolutely nothing unusual about recent temperatures. The colder interlude in the 1960s and 70s is again apparent, but winter temperatures prior to that period were pretty similar to now.
17. See, e.g., Terry L. Anderson and Don Leal, Free Market Environmentalism (New York: Palgrave, 2002).
Based on historical climate fact, it is possible to extend the trend into the future to form a possible climate scenario. Figure 4 depicts the extrapolation of the 1000-year and 230-year cycle along with the generally expected trend. Added to this are the fluctuations of the 65-year ocean cycles, the impacts of the ENSO-events, sunspot cycles and volcanic eruptions, which result in additional fluctuations of a few tenths of a degree just as they have in the past.
For example, one prediction has drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) becoming a part of the Republican Party's vision of energy independence: Alaska's senior Senator "Lisa Murkowski has long argued that drilling in ANWR would help reduce the national deficit."