Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
UN IPCC's Michael Oppenheimer on his unused sled in 2000: "Oppenheimer even had a tear-jerking personal angle on the "absence of snow' in modern winters omichael@princeton.edu NYT quoted "Oppenheimer on the pathetic spectacle of the unused sled in his stairwell, symbol of a warming world: "I bought a sled in '96 for my daughter,' said Oppenheimer, a scientist at the nonprofit Environmental Defense Fund. "It's been sitting in the stairwell, and hasn't been used. I used to go sledding all the time. It's one of my most vivid and pleasant memories as a kid, hauling the sled out to Cunningham Park in Queens.'
As The Washington Post writer Charles Lane observed at the time: ?It?s one thing to lose your job because a competing firm built a superior mouse trap; it?s quite another, justice-wise, to lose it because a competitor talked the government into taking its side.?
Figure 2: Plant growth vs CO2 concentration. Plants really begin to suffer once CO2 concentrations fall below 500 ppm. Source: click here .
With climate change we often assume that populations simply need to move poleward to escape warming, but our study shows that in the ocean, the escape routes are more complex, says ecologist Lauren Buckley of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, also a co-author of the paper.
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New Yorkers should also be aware that there is growing opposition to wind farms wherever they are proposed, in Europe, Australia and in nearly every state in the U.S., says Schleede. "Opposition is due to a variety of reasons including scenic and property value impairment, noise, bird kills, "flicker' effects of spinning blades after sunrise and before sunset, potential safety hazards from blade and ice throws, interference with telecommunications, and higher costs of electricity."
Wait a minute. What did the last IPCC report say?
From the Federal Food Insurance program that now socializes the cost of flood stupid to everyone (and is painfully in deficit) encouraging massive building in flood plains (guess whey the are called that?) and on mobile sand bars (as they all are), to the over regulation of commerce that breaks flexible and innovative response, to the selling of privilege for political favor; we have a new Power Of Stupid at work.
New research in The FASEB Journal suggests that obese fathers have changes to microRNAs that increase the risks for daughters to be overweight/obese, and both sons and daughters to have diabetes-like diseases
Update: This does not mean that there has been no warming, just that it has been exaggerated. Satellites have shown warming over the last 30 years and are unaffected by the same biases and issues as at the CRU. But the whole point is the exaggeration. Skeptics generally dont think there is no warming from mans CO2, just that it is greatly exaggerated. And this matters. Ten degrees of warming vs. a half degree of warming over the next century have very very different policy implications. See my video here for more.
One year ago, on January 31, we were treated to another of these Snowmageddon scenarios. At the time, USA Today quoted Gary Szatkowski, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service, as saying: Its a little surprising that people are falling for this.
Temeln (CZ), Jaslovsk Bohunice (SK), Tetov (CZ), Blahutovice (CZ), Mochovce (SK), Kecerovce (SK) besides the existing ones in Temeln (CZ), Dukovany (CZ), Jaslovsk Bohunice (SK), and Mochovce (SK). Seven nuclear places is not bad for a country of 15 million.
All essentially forced energy conservation (called conservation ism at this blog) is primarily to reduce emissions of all sorts, but largely GHGs, given that pollutants are covered by other regulatory regimes.
The entire industry of "climate science" was created out of virtually nothing, by means of a massive influx of funding that was almost universally one-sided in its requirement that its recipients find evidence for man-made climate changenot investigate whether or how much mankind had caused climate change.
The basic concept is that if the radiative forcing of the climate system is increased, the surface temperature will warm until the outgoing long wave radiation becomes in balance with the new radiative forcing. There is a lag between when the radiative forcing is imposed and when an equilibrium is achieved with the new forcing (this has been referred to as a temperature increase which is still in the pipeline). If the forcing changes over time, the surface temperature will not, of course, ever reach an equilibrium.
Most recently, the current issue of Macleans magazine has a cover story titled "Why Your Grocery Bill is About to Hurt", which is linked here : "...the U.S. biofuels industry has made
The plaintiff in the case is the Dutch environmental organization Urgenda, described by the court as "a citizens' platform . . . involved in the development of plans and measures to prevent climate change." As part of a global strategy to persuade courts that they have authority to trump the climate policy decisions of the legislative and executive branches of government, Urgenda's lawsuit resulted in a rare but significant victory for climate activists. The ruling will now be cited as precedent in pending and future lawsuits not only in the Netherlands, but across the globe.
> >> >>adaptation. Such a document should contain a critical
the opportunity for major policy change is ripe, as it was for LBJ in 1965. But
When all the warming and cooling periods are combined, there has been overall warming of +0.6C since 1880, which is entirely normal, considering the realism that world temperatures have been on a natural warming trend since the incredible coldness of the Little Ice Age. Even with the large increase of CO2 levels since 1880, the overall warming is nothing extraordinary or dangerous. And just to be clear, the natural cycles of warming and cooling will keep global temperatures from jumping to the ludicrous heights (as the red dots represent on the above chart) that warming alarmist scientists and eco-activists speculate about. One last graph and note:
Use more technology (geoengineering, carbon capture and storage).
This set of examples shows that the HADCM3L cannot produce a unique solution to the problem of the climate energy state. No set of model parameters is known to be any more valid than any other set of model parameters. No projection is known to be any more physically correct (or incorrect) than any other projection.
From S. Fred Singer HOT TALK, COLD SCIENCE: Global Warmings Unfinished Debate S. Fred Singer is a distinguished astrophysicist who has taken a hard, scientific look at the evidence. In this book, Dr. Singer explores the inaccuracies in historical climate data, the limitations of attempting to model climate on computers, solar variability and its impact on climate, the effects of clouds, ocean currents, and sea levels on global climate, and factors that could mitigate any human impacts on world climate. LearnMore
Since 2000, industrial power prices are up 13 percent in real dollars, while commercial power prices are up 9 percent. Before 2000, both prices had fallen steadily since 1982, by 42 percent and 27 percent, respectively, according to the federal government's Energy Information Administration (EIA). Prices are up in part because the cost of natural gas, which increasingly fuels power plants, has skyrocketed over the period; independent power companies have also had to try to recoup the billions of dollars they spent in the early to mid-1990s building natural gas plants by passing the costs of construction on to their customers in deregulated markets.
Using a livelihood security approach, Alexander and her team identified vulnerable households in these communities and examined how they adapted and coped with major climate events and shocks such as droughts, hurricanes and floods. The Baylor researchers also developed tools to measure each households long-term resilience, an area that has not been extensively researched, and identified specific behaviors and strategies that allowed some families to weather the storm better than others.
They may dismay consumers, but higher rates will encourage suppliers to find new sources of energy.
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The SREX Report seemed to conclude that, apart from warmer days and nights, there was no significant trend in heatwaves, tornadoes, hurricanes is that still the case?
Of the $6.3 billion to be spent on stage 1, $3.6 billion would come from tax incentives to stimulate spending on energy efficient transportation and housing. But, says the GAO, the Administration "has no estimate of the expected benefits and thus is not explicitly tied to the protocol's target for emission reductions." The GAO says that "it is uncertain how much" the $2.7 billion proposed for R&D; will "help the United States meet the target specified by the protocol."
The 2001 Third Assessment Report contained a graph contradicting the First Report by falsely abolishing the medieval warm period, which, like the Roman, Minoan, and Holocene optima, and 7500 of the past 11,400 years, and each of the four previous interglacial warm periods, and most of the past 600 million years, was warmer than today. Some 800 scientists from more than 460 institutions in 42 countries over 25 years have written peer-reviewed, learned papers providing evidence that the Middle Ages were warmer than today.
This new version of the party eschewed any serious effort to bargain and compromise with the opposition party, an essential activity within the American constitutional system.
Advocates of "pooling" U.S. sovereignty with others to address "global" problems are really saying we should surrender some of our sovereignty to international organizations that other nations will influence or even control.
Theres no indication that global warming will result in stronger storms. The World Meteorological Organisation announced earlier this year they find no connection between global warming and hurricane activity.
Economics, not politics, will decide the fate of Canada's tar sands. Energy analysts at Wood MacKenzie recently estimated that $200 billion in oil and gas investments in 45 projects around the world were being delayed due to low prices. About $60 billion of those planned investments were slated for oil sands projects. Just last month, Royal Dutch Shell announced it was halting its Carmon Creek oil sands project in Alberta due to low oil prices.
This brings us to the what John L. Casey, founder of the Space and Science Research Corporation, (SSRC), an independent scientific research organization in Orlando, says about the forthcoming November 30 to December 15 U.N. climate conference in Paris which he describes as ?doomed? and that?s the good news.
Little kid (sounded 5 or 6 years old) asks:
23 Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonourest thou God?
Source:?? Popular TechnologyGlobal warming alarmists like to distort the scale on temperature graphs to exaggerate the mild warming of less than a degree since the end of the little ice age. (IPCC +0.74 ??C)NASS GISS Global Land-Ocean Temperature Index (1880-2009)Realist:Alarmist:Source:NASS GISS Global Land-Ocean Temperature Index (1880-2009)This entry was postedon Wednesday, October 13th, 2010 at 2:23 pmand is filed under Uncategorized.You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.Responses are currently closed, but you can trackback from your own site.
Its a good question, and it arises out of an article posted on Business Green (an on-line news and campaigning site for green capitalists) by its editor, James Murray. More about that in a moment. First, the background.
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The data shows a global mean sea level rise of only 1.85 mm/year since January 2005, a deceleration of 44% from the prior rate of 3.3 mm/year. At this rate, sea levels will rise 7 inches over the next 100 years. Break out the life rafts!
One of the key assumptions in the general circulation models (which are the basis for the IPCC's global warming predictions) relates to the sensitivity of climate to changes in the amount of energy reaching the earth. The models currently assume that every Watt per meter squared (W/m2) of energy added to the earth will cause the temperature to rise by .55 C. A doubling of atmospheric carbon dioxide, according to the model assumptions, will add 4.5 Watts per meter squared (W/m2) of energy to the earth causing the temperature to rise by 2.5 C. This is the basis for model projections.
The unadjusted NZ temperature history. Click for larger version.
Far too many environmentalists, bureaucrats, politicians, and judges would rather let forests burn than let anyone selectively cut timber, thin out overgrown trees or even let loggers harvest usable timber left from beetle kills, devastating fires, or volcanic explosions like Mount St. Helens. (Do you suppose they'd alter their policies if loggers promised to use chain saws powered by little wind turbines or solar panels?)
Robert L. Bradley is the chief executive officer and founder of the Institute for Energy Research in Houston.
For Bosch, another German giant, its move into solar ended in disaster too, costing the electronics company even more than Siemens: about ?2.4bn.
In Pakistan, about 1600 people have died since floods struck in July and early August, while about 14 million are struggling to cope with the consequences of the natural disaster, the UN and Pakistani government said.
A new paper finds that over the past decade the global average effective cloud height has declined and that If sustained, such a decrease would indicate a significant measure of negative cloud feedback to global warming.
Meet the man, assistant DeSmogger Brendan De Melle , who took a whole hour to get the documents online from the time received. Speed is more important than fact checking in journo-lism I suppose.
?global icons? One of these suggested icons was the Great Barrier Reef
They let these random diatribes of absolute, incorrect nonsense get published. Theyre not able to determine if whats being said is correct or not, or whether its just absolute balderdash. .
Addressing the executive order emphasis, U.S. Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Thomas J. Donohue says: "It is unfortunate that on a matter of such importance to all Americans that the administration has chosen to bypass our elected representatives in favor of unilateral actions and go-it-alone tactics."
The paper is a preprint that will eventually appear in the European Journal of the Philosophy of Science and can be downloaded here . It is a contribution to an ongoing debate in philosophy of science circles as to how computer simulations fit into the normal blueprint of science, with some claiming that they are something other than a hypothesis or an experiment.
But UKIP hates Europe? Not at all . European nations are among some of our closest allies, but we want out of the European Union on the grounds that it is entirely undemocratic. Unelected people write the laws, referendums are scoffed at and ignored and the EU has failed its financial audit every year for the past 20. The EU also stifles trade. Arguments about losing three million jobs can only be sustained if one believes that the EU will stop trading with us, despite the fact that we will instantly become its biggest export market and that they already have free trade deals with countries such as Mexico. Dont some things require international cooperation? Yes, and this can still be achieved, but it does not require forced political and economic union.
Missing stations, missing data, adjustments based on differences in temperature measurements and rerunning the adjustments all t get more precise results? I couldnt adjust data that had product or legal (environmental) liability without documenting each change. I was also subject to regular audits by customers and regulatory agencies.
An all of the above energy policy that is rigged against consumer-driven dense energy and rigged for government-enabled dilute energy;
Fuel poverty will only reducesubstantially if fuel costs come down. That will only happen if someone comes up with a cheaper, clean alternative to fossil fuels. That will not happen for a generation or more. Subsidising alternative energy sources that will always be much more expensive than oil is currently may divert attention away from that search. It is the poor who will suffer from most.
2nd person denied Ariz. Transplant coverage dies:
The caricature of President Bush the unilateralist is inaccurate. He went to the United Nations before invading Iraq, and he assembled an international coalition to fight the war. But Europeans should recognize that Mr. Bush scored points in the campaign when he derided Sen. Kerry's suggestion that the U.S. needed a permission slip from the U.N., France and Germany before defending itself, and Bush went out of his way during the debates to criticize the International Criminal Court. Americans don't want to pull out of the U.N.; to the contrary, they want it to be effective. A survey by the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations found that 87% of the public favors "working through the United Nations to strengthen international laws against terrorism." Expect, however, that the administration will take a close look at U.N. institutions like the World Health Organization, which, with heavy support from American taxpayers, revel in attacking U.S. policies and businesses.
An advertising agency for the citys health department obtained the rights to use the photo to illustrate its campaign shown throughout the subway system against supersize portions of fast food and sugary sodas. To emphasize that consuming too much of those foods could lead to diabetes and the amputation of limbs, the agency edited away the lower half of Mr. Berrys right leg and conjured up a pair of crutches.
There is not the slightest indication that Arctic sea ice is disappearing. Arctic sea is two meters thick, the thickest it has been since 2006 and about the same thickness it was 75 years ago.
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Global sea ice levels decreased but then recently have come back to normal (at least the same levels as when we started monitoring).
In reality, the soil surface cools faster that does the deeper layers, but I didnt want to complicate things with a multi-level model (which I dont have time to work on anyway). This is just a simple, bulk model calculation meant to illustrate how extremely cold it would get at night without downwelling IR from the sky (aka, the greenhouse effect) reducing the net rate of energy loss to outer space.
Now I'd like to address one more myth that's being perpetrated by Utility MACT proponents, which has to do with their public health argument. The truth is that the health benefits EPA claims are exaggerated and misleading. That's because EPA's analysis shows that over 99 percent of the benefits from the rule come from reducing fine particulate matter, not air toxics. Of course, fine particulate matter is regulated under the National Ambient Air Quality Standards program, and in fact 90% of Utility MACT's purported particulate matter benefits occur in air already deemed safe in the NAAQS program.
Instead of these intractable disputes, it's better to ask whether, at the margin, the additional cost of pollution control is justified by the environmental gains achieved. Only a firm has the information needed to make these continuous adjustments. Let the government set the per-unit tariff for pollution and the firm will figure out its compliance strategy, independent of political machinations. To be sure, this system requires some collective measurement of pollution costs from various types of emissions. But any system of state regulation has to ask that question, including one that uses BAT.
The 2013 hurricane season just ended as one of the five quietest years since 1960. But don't expect anyone who pointed to last year's hurricanes as "proof" of the need to act against global warming to apologize; the warmists don't work that way.
In commenting on their findings, the five Chinese researchers say "our well-calibrated high-resolution tropical SST records, which suggested a warmer MCA than recent decades, did not agree with the results of the IPCC fourth report, which suggested that the recent decades were the warmest in at least the past 1,300 years." And they additionally go on to say that their new temperature reconstruction is "not the only evidence in eastern Asia for a warmer MCA than recent decades."
This is not some Iird skeptics fantasy. This two-part description of catastrophic global warming theory is right out of the latest IPCC report. Most of the warming in the reports forecasts actually results from the theory of positive feedback in #2, not from greenhouse gasses directly.
> >> >- maybe the IDS at Sussex
The Gospels are quite clear. Besides depicting Jesus dining with prostitutes and publicans without feeling any urge to lecture and condemn them, references abound on concentrating on ones own real problems instead of anybody elses purported issues.
According to the French financial daily Les Echos, France, the birthplace of the Paris climate agreement, is planning to scrap a tax on carbon dioxide emissions it had announced earlier in 2016. Sources within France's socialist government said it would not include the carbon tax in the budget update it is drafting.
The firefighters have been working around the clock to fight the Crow Edge blaze, which has created a huge pall of acrid smoke that can be smelled across much of South Yorkshire .
If the standstill continues for a few more years it will mean that no one who has just reached adulthood, or younger, will have witnessed the Earth get warmer during their lifetime, said the reports author, Dr David Whitehouse.
We have to switch datasets to NOAAs ERSST.v3b for the long-term data. The data for the month of February 2013 will not be available until early in March, so well use the January 2013 value for the most recent temperature anomaly for the New England coastal watersthe red horizontal line. The current anomalies were exceeded by a good amount in the 1940s. And theyve regularly been exceeded as far back as the 1850s and 60s.
In fact, Obama??s energy policies have created the worst of all possible worlds for American consumers: higher prices and continued dependency on imported oil.
Blake Hurst is a Missouri farmer and a frequent contributor to THE AMERICAN.
"The Clean Power Plan is an illegitimate exercise in executive authority," added William Yeatman, CEI senior fellow. "It is an affront to federalism; it usurps the states' long-held, exclusive authority to oversee retail electricity markets. If finalized, the rule would fundamentally overhaul the electric industry without the permission of Congress or the American people."
According to NOAA, drought in recent years has been at historically low levels, while precipitation has been trending upwards.
Click for more on the Manns involuntary public figure charade.
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Table 1. Exponents table showing pairwise differences in Patriot measurements. Exponent commented as follows: There are seven pairs of measurements (highlighted in orange and red) in which the drop in pressure between the earlier ball tested and the later ball tested is greater than or equal to 0.75 psig, and there are three pairs of measurements (highlighted in red) in which the drop in pressure between the earlier ball tested and later ball tested is greater than or equal to 1.0 psig.
At the same time it released its report, EPA issued seven recommendations, the first four of which were proposed by the Clinton administration in 1996 but never implemented. These recommendations are:
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