Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
Natural gas is the preferred backup for wind (and solar) energy because, as in the burger example, its production can more easily be increased and decreased to follow the needed outputeven though it operates most efficiently at a consistent level. Coal-fueled electricity generation cannot be simply turned up and down.
There are other problems with the ice core record. It takes years for air to be trapped in the ice, so what is actually trapped and measured? Meltwater moving through the ice especially when the ice is close to the surface can contaminate the bubble. Bacteria form in the ice, releasing gases even in 500,000-year-old ice at considerable depth. ( Detection, Recovery, Isolation and Characterization of Bacteria in Glacial Ice and Lake Vostok Accretion Ice. Brent C. Christner, 2002 Dissertation. Ohio State University) . Pressure of overlying ice, causes a change below 50m and brittle ice becomes plastic and begins to flow. The layers formed with each year of snowfall gradually disappear with increasing compression. It requires a considerable depth of ice over a long period to obtain a single reading at depth. Jaworowski identified the problems with contamination and losses during drilling and core recovery process.
It is interesting, however, that those who seek an arrest and conviction for criminal negligence, or voluntary manslaughter, want the crime to be charged before the victims are dead. The usual cry from the alarmists uses the future tense, as polar ice caps WILL melt, and sea levels WILL rise. Or, more often, the conditional form is used, saying sea levels COULD rise by 20 feet in 100 years.
Then also, why would we want to end a recent lull in harsh weather conditions? Like, for example, the lack of increase in the strength or frequency of landfall hurricanes in the worlds five main hurricane basins during the past 50-70 years; the lack of increase in the strength or frequency in tropical Atlantic hurricane development during the past 370 years; the longest U.S. period ever recorded without intense Category 3-5 hurricane landfall; and no trend since 1950 evidencing any increased frequency of strong (F3-F-5) U.S. tornadoes.
For those who don't have the ability or money, government help can transition people away from bad building decisions that those same governments often encouraged in their pursuit of growth. The state's My Safe Florida Home Program, which Gov. Crist, inexplicably, decided not to fund in 2009, helped residents of modest means secure their homes against storms and deserves to have its funding restored. Individual cities, towns and private charities should also see what they can do to help residents secure their homes and reinforce public infrastructure against storms.
Despite the supposedly unprecedented warming of the twentieth century, there has been no increase in the intensity or frequency of tropical cyclones globally or in any of the specific ocean basins.
A Trump victory, unlikely but far from impossible, would not create a new GOP: The old problems we identified would remain, along with new ones. There is no way to predict how Trump, who has no discernible knowledge of public policy or the governing process but who has made stark pledges on a range of issues, would handle his presidency, but the differences between his stated policy preferences and those of party leaders in Congress are substantial. In any case, Democrats will have enough members in the Senate to filibuster his initiatives.
Modeling Extreme Precipitation in the Tropics (10 Jul 2013)
Companies have safely used such processes for decades in the U.S. to extract oil and gas from hundreds of wells across the country. In fact, the technology has improved so dramatically that companies are re-fracking wells to extract even more oil and gas from previously drilled wells.
My one-time bosses on the U.S. Bureau of the Budget would have called this dominant informationresults so important that they dictate the outcome of an analysis almost regardless of other considerations.
The cool conditions experienced in autumn 2011 are largely a result of the strong 2010/11 La Nia event which brought heavy rainfall and cool daytime temperatures to Australia, before decaying in late autumn. Of particular significance was March 2011 Australias coldest and wettest March on record for maximum temperatures and third wettest month on record (for any calendar month).
it is not known with enough certainty what the impacts will be and urgent action by governments and/or substantial government spending (on all or some aspects of mitigation or adaptation) to counter AGW is not necessary.
Nothing is more Orwellian than quoting Orwell to attack freedom of thought and discussion. Today's ClimateWire (subscription required) provides a case in point. "Scientists need to stop doublespeak on climate, experts say," reports Christa Marshall. By doublespeak, Orwell meant a political orthodoxy so pervasively embraced as a party line that everybody sheepishly repeats and even believes manifest falsehoods: Ignorance Is Strength, Freedom Is Slavery, War Is Peace.
The UK had its coldest winter for 13 years , bucking a recent trend of mild temperatures, the Met Office has said.
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The National Weather Service's primary seasonal prediction system, CFSv2, is based on running weather/ocean forecast models out 9 months. Its forecast is emphatic and confident (see below): a strong El Nino will develop this summer and extend into next winter.
Note: Assumes IPCC A1B baseline emissions path.
"In the last 80 years, as CO2 emissions have most rapidly escalated, the annual rate of climate-related deaths worldwide fell by an incredible rate of 98%. That means the incidence of death from climate is 50 times lower than it was 80 years ago."
But Climate Crisis, Inc. is using our tax and consumer dollars to advance six simultaneous strategies.
"Avatar" director James Cameron double-dared global warming disaster skeptics to debate him then morphed into a chicken and cackled off when they accepted his increasingly ludicrous debate terms, calling his critics "swine" as he headed for the hills.
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Actually, according to a peer-reviewed paper just published in Nature Climate Change, there has been no statistically-significant global warming for the past 20 years .
In short: heat flows from hot to cold but there is no physics corresponding to a flow from cold to hot analogous to "backradiation". Heat can radiate from a hot to a cold body, but not from a cold to a hot. In other words:
This raises some interesting questions. Is there any difference between cap-and-trade and a carbon tax? Is cap-and-trade the only politically viable approach? And would either have a chance against The Status Quo, who is drawing new fans in the midst of the economic downturn?
There are two obvious problems with the National Climate Assessment. The first is the fact that the global mean temperature has not increased in the past seventeen years. This means that the Assessment is claiming that the effects (disruption) are preceding the cause (warming). I guess the disruption will really be bad if temperatures do actually start to go up.
This new wave puts the "sexual' into metrosexuality. In fact, a new term is needed to describe them, these pumped-up offspring of those Ronaldo and Beckham lunch-box ads, where sport got into bed with porn while Mr. Armani took pictures.
The conference, which took place at the Centrum Prasowe Foksal right in the heart of Warsaw, drew a large crowd of grassroots leaders and interested citizens who came from far and wide to hear a point of view that many of them share, but don't often hear from the media or their elected leaders. CFACT, which co-sponsored the event along with the Institute for Globalization, Solidarity, and Polityka Narodowa (among others), made the keynote address a particularly honor for a U.S. NGO to receive on the eve of Poland's National Independence Day.
Exhibit A: the Administration's ongoing push to create "Green Jobs." The Administration touts environmental initiatives not only as a way to improve quality of life and discourage climate change, but also as a way to employ more Americans. Accordingly, last week's summit included a breakout session called "The Innovation Agenda and Green Jobs of the Future."
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If we can have gas safely in this country that will mean jobs, tax revenue and greater energy security so fracking is not the evil thing that some people try to make it out to be, he said.
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Its emissions rose about 9 percent last year, faster than any other major economy. If sustained that rate "would torpedo efforts for the global 2 degrees target," said Malte Meinshausen, from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK).
But the credibility gap with ClimateCounts doesn't end with Hirshberg. The group's executive vice president is Lisa Witter, who is also chairman of Fenton Communications a name that should be very familiar to aficionados of the history of health and environmental scare-mongering.
3) The biggest increases occurred in the Antarctic before 1980, although the amount of missing data there in the 1930s and 1940s must place a question mark over the accuracy of GISS data.
Conventional wisdom holds that plants should thrive when temperatures warm and the growing season lengthens under a changing climate. A 2003 study showed that plant growth indeed increased as temperatures warmed between 1982 and 1999. But when researchers at the University of Montana updated the study for the last decade, 20002009, they discovered that even though the decade was the warmest since instrumental recordkeeping began, plant growth slowed.
The global warming trend since 1900 is equivalent to 0.8 C per century. This is well within natural variability and may not have much to do with us.
The situation is deeply frustrating for those who know the shuttle program firsthand, like Apollo 17 commander Eugene Cernan: "This is the first time in a half century we're going to be sitting on our hands and watching the other guys" meaning the Russians "and not being able to get into space. Keeping a shuttle in the garage warm and fueled, and ready to go would be . . . a tremendous signal to the rest of the world that we're still in the ball game."
My argument has always been that I can find no evidence of a contribution from manmade greenhouse gases to the warming of ocean heat content data (depths of 700 meters) since 1955, and that there is no evidence that anthropogenic greenhouse gases contributed to the warming of sea surface temperatures of the global oceans during the satellite era. For an overview of my findings, see my illustrated essay The Manmade Global Warming Challenge . The claim that I reject the greenhouse effect clearly misrepresents my position.
"How can you calmly accept a retarted warmongering coporate...whore like Bush?"
The Clinton administration, represented by Janet Yellen, chair of the President's Council of Economic Advisors, has provided estimates of the costs of complying with the Kyoto Protocol in several congressional hearings. Though Yellen has not released the analysis she has laid
And since there is no fingerprint of human- versus natural-caused warming, we might never know the answer to this central question. We might have to just sit back and watch where global temperature go from now on.
Satellite data has shown thatsea ice around Antarctic has increased in size by twenty percent since imaging of the continent began in 1979. According to this study, though, too much ice requires the penguins to travel further to gather food for their chicks. Too little ice means less krill for the penguins to eat.
But the researchers were surprised when they entered temperatures and other data from the decade 2000-2010 into the model; climate sensitivity was greatly reduced to a mere 1.9C.
The Virginia Tobacco Indemnification And Community Revitalization Commission:
Those same companies have given financial backing to Teri through grants or paid-for consultancy work.
I?d agree probably 10 years away to go from weather forecasting to ~ annual
Today we know that this claim should have been a very easy-to-detect gross blunder.
An important article appeared in the literature recently with some surprising results given the predictions of the climate models. Konstantinos Andreadis and Dennis Lettenmaier of the University of Washington have published a paper in Geophysical Research Letters entitled Trends in 20th century drought over the continental United States, and the results are peculiarin light of climate model projectionsto say the least. In the abstract, they write Droughts have, for the most part, become shorter, less frequent, and cover a small portion of the country over the last century.
RMS residual error 0.17 0.26 C
Drawing on Muttart's insights and my own thinking, I believe there are seven salient values or tendencies that are common to working-class voters across the decades. Call them the Seven Habits of the Working Class. They are:
On another question, 15 percent of strong Democrats thought that global warming would cause none of six undesirable consequences identified by the researchers. Eleven percent of strong Republicans shared this view. In the December-February survey, 4 percent of strong Democrats thought global warming would have none of these effects, but many more Republicans (27 percent) felt this way.
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For certain reasons, they run the argument backwards and choose a basis composed of entangled states. They probably also want to exclude the possibility that \(E\) is an allowed nonlinear operator but I don't understand how a nonlinear operator would be supposed to behave as an observable so I don't see any value in their converse attitude.
Laden and al-Qaeda. Later during the presidential primaries, Obama used a
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Additionally, as the New York Times, in a story about corporate tax rates, reported last year: "Large oil companies typically pay high rates." It shows that the average tax rate among companies is roughly 29%, while "large oil companies" are paying 37% and utility companies that "benefited from the 2009 stimulus bill, which included tax breaks," have an "overall" rate of 12%.
"Ethanol subsidies damage the environment by wiping out forests, polluting water supplies, and eroding the soil. By converting food into fuel, they cause famines and food riots in the world's poorest countries. That fuels Islamic extremism in Afghanistan and the Middle East."
The Coalition is pressing ahead with the CRC despite Conservative pledges to cut red-tape on businesses.
When Waxman refers to a tipping point, he means that a positive feedback cycle, much like nuclear fission, is created causing temperatures to accelerate rapidly. As an aside, such runaway positive feedback processes are rare among long-term stable natural systems, as at some point, given 5 billion years of history, they should have already run away by now. Why temperatures would reach a tipping point now when they did not in millennia past when both global temperature and CO2 levels were much higher remains unexplained by Mr. Waxman and other tipping point advocates.
Coming to a conclusion that simply could not be avoided, Barkhordarian et al . state that "the detection of an outright sign mismatch of observed and projected trends in autumn and late summer, leads us to conclude that the recently observed trends cannot be used as an illustration of plausible future expected change in the Mediterranean region," once again illustrating the folly of placing too much faith in even the best of climate model projections.
Follow the money pushing the ideological AGW lie. If one examines climate science funding from 1986 to 1996 and then from 1996 to the present you may find some amazing numbers.
"The South Carolina Supreme Court heard arguments yesterday regarding a 2006 case involving a home poker tournament. The discussion centers on whether the state's gaming laws were violated and/or whether poker is a game of skill or chance."
The next graph shows how they made the past cooler through the magic of homogenization. The 1940s retroactively dropped a full degree!
The Global Warming Policy Foundation, 18 December 2010
If Energy Secretary Chris Huhne has his way, Britons will be forced to subsidise renewable energy by approximately 100billion in the next 20 years. Electricity prices are likely to double as a direct result. The Government has to force energy companies to make electricity bills fully transparent so that the ever-increasing level of hidden green taxes are clearly listed for families and households. ??? -Benny Peiser, Daily Mail, 8 July 2011
The "Appeal of the Climate Alliance," drafted by the Evangelical Academy of Bad Boll, contains mistakes in logic that cannot remain unchallenged.
The droughts of the 1930s and 1950s were stronger than those of the 2000s according to the Palmer Drought Severity Index.
If one computes the loss in ice volume (the melt) for each individual year from May 1st to August 31st of each year, we get a surprise:
I wonder what is the quantity that measures how "bad" an impact humans and comets have on Earth so that he concludes that the people are worse. People have disadvantages but any situation with people is better for Earth than the situation without the people because the people are so far the most precious thing that this planet has created.
It is religion that asks for repentance and offers rituals for atonement;
Dr. Christy is distinguished professor of atmospheric science, Alabama's state climatologist, and director of the Earth System Science Center at The University of Alabama in Huntsville. He served as lead author, contributing author, and reviewer of United Nations' IPCC assessments, have been awarded NASA's Medal for Exceptional Scientific Achievement, and in 2002 was elected a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society.
Well, what causes chaos? All of this could simply be the characteristics of a nonlinear dynamical ???chaotic?? climate system. While a few people have objected to my use of the term ???chaotic?? in this context, I see no reason why the traditional application of chaos theory to small space and time scales (such as in weather) can not be extended to the larger space and time scales involved in climate. Either way, chaos involves complex nonlinear behavior we do not yet understand, very small changes in which can have profound effects on the system later. It seems to me that such behavior can occur on all kinds of space and time scales.
"We are pleased with their decision not to use the politically natured global warming video as a classroom instruction tool and that they have set a standard that information-based texts must be factually correct to be put in front of our children," they wrote.
She insisted on the word "World" in the organisation's name, saying it was an important nuance compared with "international," meaning an exclusive focus on nations.
Great. But I think it would be worth checking for Dr Horton's views on climate change wouldn't you? Just in case?
To study tree rings, researchers generally take a pencil-sized core from a tree. The oldest rings are those closest to the center of the tree. However, ancient giant sequoias can have trunks that are 30 feet in diameter far too big to be sampled using even the longest coring tools, which are only three feet long.
Clean Power Now VP Charles Kleekamp argued in favor of the proposed Cape Wind offshore wind project on economic grounds in guest editorials in the March 6 Cape Cod Times and March 15 Cape Cod Today . In letters-to-the-editor to the same papers (not published), Glenn Schleede challenges Kleekamps analysis and describes what information the developer of Cape Wind would need to provide tohelp determine what the ensuing cost of per kilowatt-hour is likely to be.Still, Massachusetts electric users can be expected to be paying more because such power is bring driven bystates Renewable Portfolio Standard and the fact thatelectricity from wind isintermittent.
This is not a new problem. The unilateral redrafting of IPCC reports by "lead authors" after reviewers had agreed them, and the writing of a sexed-up "summary for policy makers" before the report was complete, have discomfited many scientists since the first report. It is no great surprise that the "experts" who compiled one part of the 2007 report included three from Greenpeace, two Friends of the Earth representatives, two Climate Action Network representatives, and a person each from the activist organisations WWF, Environmental Defense Fund, and the David Suzuki Foundation.
Human beings and the natural world are on a collision course. Human activities inflict harsh and often irreversible damage on the environment and on critical resources. If not checked, many of our current practices put at serious risk the future that we wish for human society and the plant and animal kingdoms and may so alter the living world that it will be unable to sustain life in the manner that we know. Fundamental changes are urgent if we are to avoid the collision our present course will bring about.
Paying homage to their connection to the frozen sea, villagers eat the delicacy to celebrate the moment when the Arctics ice touches shore.
"Obama's doing a quickie presser at 4:40 p.m. to talk about the debt ceiling and the evils of corporate jets, etc, but apart from that, it'll be wall-to-wall Caseymania on cable news for the rest of the day. There's no avoiding it so we might as well catch the news wave and surf. How many of you followed the trial? I only watched bits and pieces, but if you need to get up to speed, the Wikipedia article of the case is a solid summary based on what I've read elsewhere. Money quote: "There is something wrong. I found my daughter's car today and it smells like there's been a dead body in the damn car." And yet, the party raged on."
Figure 3 also shows a rapid warming from 1935 to 1938, as well as the recent warming from 2004 to 2007, just like the DMI measurements. The same phenomenon is likely the cause of the temperature rises then and now. This reference was found here:
After one year of treatment exposure, there were no significant effects of the extra 200 ppm of CO 2 or ozone on apparent tree volume. After two and three years, however, elevated CO 2 increased apparent tree volume by 22 and 28%, respectively, while elevated ozone reduced it by 26% in each of those years. Although elevated CO 2 did not completely alleviate the negative affects of ozone on apparent tree volume, CO 2 -enriched trees that were simultaneously exposed to elevated ozone concentrations exhibited apparent volumes that were still 6 and 19% greater than volumes displayed by trees subjected to ambient CO 2 and elevated ozone concentrations in the second and third years of the study, respectively. What it means
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be associated either with nitrogen or increasing CO2 or both. Contrast this