Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
In regard to their self-imposed question - "which factor (temperature or CO 2 ) would have a greater effect under a climate change scenario?" - Garrua-Hernandez et al . say their present results suggest that "a doubling of atmospheric CO 2 levels in tropical-subtropical regions would promote positive changes in plants that could mitigate any deterioration caused by higher temperature, as long as this factor does not reach extremely stressful levels." And they add that "under greenhouse conditions, the present results are promising since maximum temperature can be controlled, preventing any detrimental effects, while high CO 2 levels can be applied to accelerate phenological states, increase the number of flowers and fruit, and consequently improve fruit yields." Reference
Collapse of the AGW theory of the IPCC; 'Most influential climate paper of all time' contains multiple false assumptions
The reasons are that the models assume that increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) will lead to increases in atmospheric water vaporthe most prevalent greenhouse gasand that will enhance the gas' warming affect. That's fine in theory but has yet to be demonstrated in practice. Atmospheric water vapor has not increased. More importantly, scientists like University of Alabama's Roy Spencer and MIT's Richard Lindzen have shown that other elements in our complex climate system can be compensating.
This excellent article by Art Horn in the Energy Tribune, takes the lid off the massive amounts of money being spent by government on "climate change", at a time of severe financial constraints.
To date, Fisker has received $193 million in government funds, according to a company statement. Back in October, the company acknowledged outsourcing Karma assembly to Finland, but said that the bulk of its government funds would be used to launch a second-generation electric vehicle, still under wraps, that would be assembled in a shuttered General Motors plant in Delaware. Some of those hired to prepare the Delaware plant for that effort were among those let go.
Learn more:5 questions every presidential candidate should answer on global warming and energy policy
In March 2012, however, theEPA proposed a Carbon Pollution Rule that does exactly what McCarthy and the Air Office said the EPA would not do. Therule lumps coal power plants and NGCC plants into a single newly-minted industrial source category fossil fuel electric generating units.Moreover, the rulerequires fuel switching, proposinganew source performance standard (NSPS) 1,000 lbs CO2/MWh that nearly all new NGCC plants already meet (77 FR 22396) and exactly zero commercial coal power plants can meet.
The Congressional Research Service says average US households will pay almost $1,000 this winter just for heat. That's average: Alaska to Florida, Hawaii to New York. Northern states residents will pay double or triple that. Businesses, schools and hospitals will also be hammered.
bogging down, nato would hand off responsibility for the areas they had taken to Afghan forces.
We have been through a dark time when blacklists of scientists who disagree with the IPCC climate orthodoxy have been drawn up, editors have been threatened with being forced out of their jobs for allowing dissenting papers to be published in journals, correct science which disproves the orthodoxy position has been ignored and witch hunts on skeptical scientists and bloggers have been promoted.
El Nio years typically result in fewer hurricanes forming in the Atlantic Ocean. But a new study suggests that the form of El Nio may be changing potentially causing not only a greater number of hurricanes than in average years, but also a greater chance of hurricanes making landfall, according to climatologists at the Georgia Institute of Technology. The study appears in the July 3, 2009, edition of the journal Science.
The core of the 54 majority opinion was simple. Under the provisions of the Clean Air Act that apply to motor vehicles, the EPA administrator "shall" regulate any "air pollutant" which "in his judgment cause, or contribute to, air pollution which may reasonably be anticipated to endanger public health or welfare" .
An issue with models (as far as I know how models handle this issue), by the way, is that they dissipate this transferred free energy by turbulence rather than transferring it to the ocean or to the sand. Oceans are usually driven by wind drag, but the resulting power input has already been dissipated by the models drag parameterization in the atmospheric boundary layer. So this should be quite an inconsistency in the coupling of models, with effects on the turbulent fluxes. I really think this points out that models do not handle interactions correctly at system boundaries with respect to free energy transfer.
This is a live map so will change over time and in future months or years will look quite different. For now, it has a very hot Bos-Wash to Midwest but with everything from Wyoming west on the cold side (but with hot spots in the cities). These maps are all much larger than shown on the page. You ought to be able to click on them to get a very large version.
When pressed, Brewer said that even those who do come to the United States looking for work are often ensnared by the cartels.
America's carbon dioxide emissions last year fell to their lowest levels since 1994, according to a new report.
Casino And Lottery Gambling On The Agenda of Hawaii Lawmakers:
DAVID B. RIVKIN Jr. and ELIZABETH PRICE FOLEY: "Plenty of Debates, Not Much About States"
The fact that four of the seven recommendations were initially proposed during the Clinton administration suggests they have been extensively debated by stakeholders. While this does not mean these four recommendations would necessarily be cost-effective or optimal, they are unlikely to have as their intended effect a weakening of existing protections of air quality. Certainty and clarity, missing from the current program and the source of much waste and lost opportunities to reduce emissions, are often-stated goals of the recommendations.
Steve McIntyre pointed out some time ago, here , that almost all the global climate models around which much of the IPCCs AR5 WGI report was centred had been warming faster than the real climate system over the last 35-odd years, in terms of the key metric of global mean surface temperature. The relevant figure from Steves post is reproduced as Figure 1 below.
However, what I do have an unambiguous opinion about is the management of the co-existing brands at the VW Group level. First of all, it seems obvious to me that whatever seems to "work" in the VW Group should grow and be copied to other parts of the group; and what doesn't work too well should be suppressed or abolished. Is this really controversial?
Research published in the July 25 issue Science suggests that the height of the tropopausethe boundary between the stratosphere and the troposphere, the atmosphere's lowest layer that extends to the Earth's surfacehas risen by almost 700 feet since 1979 because of the human impact on the atmosphere. The tropopause plays an important role in the development of weather formations.
The title of Souweines piece is, The People-Power-Inflicted Downfall of Heartland. Hate to break it to you, Dan, but there is no downfall. While you and your leftist activist buddies have been exchanging high fives and taking a victory lap, Heartland has been keepin on keepin on and better than ever.
By Rafael Mendez and Miguel Jimnez, El Pais, Jun 25, 2015
?These are what we call a cold snap? a series of three or four cold snaps in a row adds up to a cold winter. And that?s quite likely what we?ll see as solar activity declines.?
Now, when I've talked about this before, I always get the same question, so I'll answer it pre-emptively. What about people who can't get away? This is a tough problem. Some have proposed the establishment of a climate-change damages trust fund, which would grow over time, and be there to pay for relocation of people, the construction of sea-walls, the building of pipelines for bulk-water transport in the event climate calamities come to pass.
Theoretically this relationship has been known a long time. The parallelism between global temperature and solar activity over the past 1000 years appears to confirm it.
The vast majority of public lands regulated by the BLM are in western states, where all current onshore wind farms approved or in planning stages will be located. Offshore wind farms, like those proposed off the New England coast, are regulated by a different federal agency.
All the Great things are Simple, and Many can be Expressed in a Single Word: Freedom; Justice; Honor; Duty; Mercy; Hope . Winston Churchill .
On Wednesday, Heather Zichal, the White House coordinator for energy and climate change, told a group of reporters that Obama, knowing that climate change is "a legacy issue," will soon issue new rules to limit carbon-dioxide emissions from electricity-generation plants. "After all that we've done, after all that historic progress in the first four years, we are well poised to take meaningful action for the second term," Zichal said.
One passage from Sanger's book, quoting Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, gets to the heart of the Obama strategy of engaging Iran or any government with which the United States
In order to hide the unexpectedly slow increase in temperature, he has alsostretchedout the Y-axis of his graph. If he drew the temperature graph at the same scale as his 1988 forecasts, no one would even be paying attention any more. The graph below doesnt look much like a hockey stick.
Obtaining the lithium for these batteries involves mining and scarring the earth as much as mining coal, which for the foreseeable future will generate much of our electricity. And we likely will be as dependent on foreign, and sometimes unfriendly, sources of lithium as we are for oil.
On his web site, Alan Carlin posted his remarks upon acceptance of the Climate Science Whistleblower Award. Carlin tried to fight from within the EPA that finding the greenhouse gas emissions, particularly carbon dioxide (CO2), endangers human health and welfare (Endangerment Finding). He thought it was based on bad science. He was promptly muzzled. So much for the most transparent Administration ever. This highly questionable finding provides the EPA with the justification to severely regulate power plants, expanding its powers without Congressional action. Carlin states: So what started out as a scientific issue concerning a proposed Endangerment Finding has now escalated into a major legal and even Constitutional issue concerning Presidential powers. The President roams the country calling us flat-earthers and science-deniers. Perhaps it is time to characterize his behavior as illegal and even dictatorial.
"We're doing everything we can to move things forward," said Rankin, whose 104 megawatt wind farm proposal is planned for west of Bend in central Oregon. "Whether or not we'll qualify for stimulus grant money remains to be seen."
Senior Fellow, Energy and Environment, Competitive Enterprise Institute
In Denver, some teams also talk about the searches for axions. They promise a final Yes/No verdict on axions within a few years.
"The discovery of shale has really recreated the value proposition to build these facilities in what is the world's largest market," Andrew Liveris, Dow's chief executive, gushed about its Texas expansion plans.
CEI: The recent tax bill contains an odd treatment of the death tax: phasing it out for one year a decade down the road. Why has eliminating (or even modifying) the estate tax been so difficult, and what are the prospects for speeding up its elimination?
S. Edvardsson, K. G. Karlsson and M. Engholm
In 2005, a similar blizzard struck central North Dakota.
Right now, we have too many taxes and regulations, too much secrecy and fraud, too many extremists, and far too little accountability in EPA. There is too much eco-religious fervor, too little science and humanity. Poor and minority families are hurt most of all. Our governors, state and federal legislators, attorneys general, courts, next president, and citizen, industry and scientific groups need to take action.
Considered somewhat of a black sheep within the scientific community Judith was a one time supporter of the IPCC until she started to find herself disagreeing with certain policies and methods of the organization. She feared the combination of groupthink and political advocacy, combined with an ingrained noble cause syndrome stifled scientific debate, slowed down scientific progress, and corrupted the assessment process.
The idea that three outstanding students PhD candidates at OSU could face dismissal, and worse, shortly before receiving their degrees, is simply shocking. That this could be happening because their father had the temerity to challenge an entrenched 12-term Democratic congressman (and OSU earmark purveyor) could make people think the university is in Zimbabwe, not America.
in magnitude? Of course not. And the last thing they really want you to do is look at the total picture of the 2 meter temperatures the last few years, after the leveling off of the previous 10.
The Merkel government now stresses that fossil fuels will remain the foundation of German energy supply for many years to come. It has also announced it will produce a new national energy plan in 2013, with support from all institutions. In the meantime, the energy transformation is entering a chaotic phase.
Lead to an aggregate loss of more than 1 million jobs by 2016 alone.
Secondly, during the eight months of "investigation" (Abraham's word) that he carried out, at no single point did he ever contact me to ask me to clarify one of the numerous references which, he said over and over again, were not clear in my slides.
Our work shows that even though only a small portion of the ocean contained toxic and metal-scavenging hydrogen sulfide, it was sufficiently large so that changes to the oceans chemistry and biology were likely profound, Owens said. What this says is that only portions of the ocean need to contain sulfide to greatly impact biota.
Instead of questioning the integrity and motivation of those who raise important questions about our understanding of the climate system, advocates should engage in an honest discussion of what actions are consistent with our state of knowledge and how best to resolve major uncertainties. That would make an important and serious contribution to climate policy.
For Obama, closing down some of Guantanamo, signing an unenforceable climate agreement in Paris, flirting with the notion of a "no first use' nuclear doctrine, apologizing to Laos and exchanging ambassadors with the Castro brothers are what history is made of.
I wish they??d exhibit the same investigative zeal when it comes to looking at Arctic sea ice record low extents , for all we know, the 2007 low extent might also be a victim of the same algorithm shift that occurred that year.
On the other hand, the same temperature record could be used to argue that there is no justification for supporting the Kyoto Protocol since "without that jump, there is no warming in Japan." Balling concludes, "in discussing the climate shortcomings of the Kyoto Protocol, one need look no farther than Japan to begin to see reasons many folks are skeptical about the scientific basis for the agreement. If the temperature record from Japan represents the type of facts the Protocol is built upon, it's time to say "sayonara' to Kyoto." The report can be found at www.greeningearthsociety.org.
The swirl of praise around Rowling's comments is especially welcome given how widely it was reported and commented uponfrom the proudly left-wing pages of The Guardian in the UK to the enthusiastically conservative Daily Caller here in the U.S. But it is a reminder that we should also be vigilant in standing up against attempts to suppress speech when agreement is less universal and the threat is more immediate. That's why CEI has also been part of numerous coalition efforts to limit the powers of federal agencies and allow the free flow of information and expression, unhampered by illegitimate government searches and surveillance. We hope you'll support our efforts we need as many allies in fighting the abuse of government power as we can get.
We do know a few things about the 50 or 100 year future that are locked in. First, people will be the same and there will be more of them. There's no evidence that human or social evolution has changed or will change people's basic proclivities. Even in the very far future, people will still have two eyes, a nose, and a mouth--the same desires and emotions, both good and bad. Second, new technologies will emerge and will be rapidly pulled into widespread use if they yield opportunities to live more comfortably, pleasantly and safely. And third, over many centuries these two inexorable trends in combination increase energy consumption--met by new energy sources and techniques.
A key part of the IPCC report is the presentation of evidence of parallel increases in both global temperatures and levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. It is claimed by IPCC that the increased carbon dioxide emitted by Man is causing global warming. In my paper it is shown that the cause and effect relation is exactly the opposite; that natural global warming has caused an increase in the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, simply because of the reduction in solubility of carbon dioxide in sea water with increasing sea temperatures.
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Comment: Bingo! If the conclusion that the EPAwould not require fuel switchingis a reasonable interpretation of the BACT guidance, then Congress and electric utilities had no reason to expect the agencyto require fuel switching only one year later, much less do sovia a form of regulation NSPS that is generally less stringent than BACT. In hindsight, the BACT guidance was the setup for a bait-and-fuel-switch .
Here is a photo from the walk way along the top of the dam. I can not imagine a worse place for a USCHN weather station. It is located in a very narrow canyon, with long shadows. It is surrounded by stone building heat sinks except on the river side. Here on the river it is exposed to waters of varying temperatures, cold in spring and winter, warm in summer and fall as the river flows vary with the season. The level of spray also varies, depending on river flow. During high flows the spillway creates a lot of spray. During low water conditions, the only water flow is through the two power houses, one which is a mile down stream. Very little spray. We know that the amount of water vapor in the air has a big impact on temperatures, and here it varies by season and river flow.
A high price today that is expected to collapse because of a faulty design (not to mention the lack of bipartisan support) will merely cause input costs of energy to rise but generate little investment in reducing emissions. A price that is low but expected to rise in future years in a robust system, with the interests of key players aligned through clever allocation of permits, will likely generate a far greater investment response. Uncertainty stifles investment. The current carbon pricing system has too much uncertainty.
Flashback 2010: Watch Now! Climate Depot's Morano in MSNBC TV Debate Morano: "Now are trying to say global warming causes blizzards, that's the level of climate astrology it's like a daily horoscope nothing that happens falsifies the theory' "He (Weiss) need's Tarot cards, that is what he needs, he is peddling astrology'
his aides had been reading Gordon Goldstein's Lessons in Disaster: McGeorge Bundy and the Path to War in Vietnam about the difficulty of trying to finely tailor wartime decisions.) Meanwhile,
Professional alarmist Tim Flannery whips up more fear by exploiting bushfires which he falsely claims were unusual and unprecedented:
Scott is not alone, however. It's unfortunately common among reporters to reinvent a highly partisan history of climate policy in Congress. For example, in a late 2015 story for the New Yorker, Jonathan Chait wrote the following about what ultimately happened to the Senate version of a cap-and-trade in the 111th Congress:
If Gore had really wanted a big event on the Mall, all he would have had to do was pick another weekend. The big bad Bush Administration and the mean old Republican-controlled Congress placed no obstacles in the way of antiwar rallies and Earth Day events held on the Mall in the past few years that bashed the President and the party. The Park Service issues permits in a professional manner without regard to an event's ideological content. But it will not let an event jump in front of the line, even if the organizer is a former vice president and Academy Award winner. As the Washington political newspaper The Hill explained, "Getting access to the Mall comes on a strict first-come, first-serve basis."
There is evidence that the document is authentic based on a specific mention in the 2000 Hoover Institution report by S. Fred Singer and Frederick Seitz, "Climate PolicyFrom Rio to Kyoto: A Political Issue for 2000and Beyond."
In Sub-Saharan Africa, some 615 million (100 million more than in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico combined) still lack this life-saving technology, and 730 million (the population of Europe) still cook and heat with wood, charcoal, and animal dung. Millions die every year from lung and intestinal diseases, due to breathing smoke from open fires and not having the safe food and water that electricity brings.
Looking at the numbers shows that in 2013, just the increase in hydrocarbon use was greater than the contribution of all global wind energy and all global solar energy combined.
The AEO2014 side case for the $25 per ton carbon tax would cut energy-related CO2 emissions by about 50 percent by 2050 (overall emissions would probably drop by a slightly smaller percentage). These cuts translate to a temperature moderation of about 0.05 degrees centigrade (about 0.09 degrees Fahrenheit) by the end of this century. Few would argue that this virtually unmeasurable impact is worth the million lost jobs and trillions of dollars of lost income.
This is a leading statement. It implies that opinion leaders think global warming is happening; otherwise why give it attention? This amplifies, instead of overcoming, social desirability bias.
Another curiosity: Meehl et al (2013) presented the outputs of 5 ensemble members of the CCSM4 model using RCP4.5 forcings. But the CMIP5 archive contains 6 ensemble members with those forcings. Why did they exclude one? We illustrated how poorly all six ensemble members simulate the warming rates in the Pacific on a zonal mean basis, so why they excluded one is somewhat of a mystery.
"It points to the natural variability of the climate system," he said in an interview with Canada's National Post. "It's quite likely is simply due to the dimming and brightening of the sun."
Drought severity and area has declined sharply in the USsince the 12th century. The exact opposite of what Obama claims.
Fred Dardick, When will science get serious about global cooling?
10. Ecologist Kenneth Watt told Time that, "At the present rate of nitrogen buildup, it's only a matter of time before light will be filtered out of the atmosphere and none of our land will be usable."
But that may be changing. Consider the more insidious and subtle tactics of the San Francisco-based As You Sow Foundation.
The list makes no distinction between corporate donors and individual donors, or between million-dollar donors and $5 donors. The PIC has all this information it is legally required to collect it for the April FEC filing. But it's not disclosing the information, and PIC officials didn't answer when I asked why. They also wouldn't give me the amounts donated by a few specific corporations.