Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
My hunch, though, is that the Court agreed to review the case because some Judges do have serious concerns about the legality of EPA's regulation of greenhouse gas emissions from stationary sources.
That's right. A tiny fraction of one degree. Over an 85-year period.
Moreover, some treaty proponents point to expansive litigation possibilities. For instance, William C.G. Burns, a professor at Monterey Institute of International Studies, contends that LOST ``may prove to be one of the primary battlegrounds for climate change issues in the future.''
Often taken for granted, energy is an integral component of human life all across the world. By tapping many of its uncovered resources, America has the potential to be the world's largest producer of energy. With the right policies in place, tapping this energy can help create a vibrant and prosperous economy for decades to come.
Link to study: Why Ending the Renewable Energy Mandate Is Good for Ohio Families and the Economy
So from a global perspective, it doesnt seem like the planets plant life is responding negatively to climate change. Are some species suffering? Undoubtedly. But, as is also the case, many others are flourishing. And in net, the change in plant growth since the early 1980s is positive.
While most of the Czech population tends to be slightly negative about the radar, there also exist early speculations that Czechia could eventually host both the radar as well as the missiles themselves (instead of Poland). From an administrative viewpoint, it would be a cleaner solution, I think.
Change. Top 400 Charities See Billions Less in Donations:
Muller had previously been claimed by those unconvinced by the science as one of their own, because hequestionedthe validity of Manns hockey stick graph, used by Al Gore in his filmAn Inconvenient Truth.
The Australian has been taking heat from the rest of the Australian media (notably Fairfax and ABC employees, and a couple of book writing academics). Its not that The Australian has held back on publishing the illogical, unreasonable PR, and baseless posturing of vested-carbon-scare-interests, no sir. They are just as ready as anyone to publish the unscientific Lomborgs , Orsekes , and Hamiltons . The real issue at stake is censorship. The rest of the media thinks The Australian should do more of it. They disparage The Australian in scathing terms, not for what it wont publish, but because it does not shield the dumb punters enough. The Australian commits the sin of giving some column space to people who dont hold UN-approved-views.
Like Penny Wong before him, Minister Combet has been captured by the self-seeking, alarmist global warming rhetoric of the United Nations IPCC and its supporters. Surely the Government should conduct an inquiry before acting on such impaired advice, yet the advice stands unaudited? There are no checks and balances, and no formal oversight. To commit our nation to deliberate economic hardship, and that of a regressive nature, without even seeking a second opinion would in any other circumstances be considered both foolish and unacceptable (remember Tirath Khemlani, and the bypassing of the Loans Council?).
My concern as a climatologist was that too many pieces didnt fit or were ignored in the complex weather systems that, on average, are climate. Most troubling initially was the effective omission of water vapor as a greenhouse gas (Figure 1).
Such a move would face up to reality and would receive bipartisan support in the United States. Susan Schwab, who headed the office of the U.S. Trade Representative under President Bush, has asserted bluntly: "The Doha Round has failed. It is time for the international community to acknowledge this sad fact and move on." She is backed by all U.S. business sectors. The Doha Round for the service industries "holds no promise," states Robert Vastine of the U.S. Coalition of Service Industries: "Why are we wasting our time?" His views are echoed by the U.S. manufacturing industry, whose spokesman, Frank Vargo, of the National Association of Manufacturers, asserts "The Doha Round has failed miserably in generating new market access."
"The US government continues to keep prohibition of online gambling in place in the country, meanwhile, other countries have moved towards regulating the billion dollar industry. Now, as the prohibition continues, ChiliGaming is about to show once again just how ridiculous the current US laws are."
President Barack Obama Already Dealing with Global Warming
Of the 100 papers we identified, 65 didnt have anything to do with recent global temperature trends (these typified papers published prior to about 2010). Of the remaining 35 papers, every single one of them acknowledged in some way that a hiatus, pause, or slowdown in global warming was occurring.
Senator Brown said coal companies, as major climate change contributors , should pay a 40 per cent resources super profits tax to pay for the clean-up.
With barely any time to recover from jet lag, CFACT's "climate truth squad" arrived in Warsaw over the weekend and immediately went into action. First up was a conference hosted by Fundacj im Bolestawa Chrobrego, a Polish think tank that assembled a powerful coalition of experts drawn from the fields of science, labor, government, and public policy to talk about the dangers of a new international climate treaty on global prosperity and freedom.
LONDON (A.P.).-The earth isgetting warmer. The oceans aregetting deeper. The glaciers aregetting smaller. Even the fish are changing their way of life.
Footprint is thus 2 MW/km2 or 5.13 MW/mile2
It has now been 831 days since the US was struck by any hurricane, and 6,695 days since the US was hit by a category 5 hurricane.
"If it wants to fix the appalling mess that medical care has become at Washington D.C.'s Walter Reed hospital, the Department of the Army might take a quick trip down Georgia Avenue to the Department of Veteran's Affairs Washington, D.C. medical center. The VA hospital system, which once produced regular horror stories similar to Walter Reed's, has emerged as one of the best-run federal agencies. The Department of Defense should look to imitate it while simultaneously freeing military health care from the constraints a VA-like system would almost certainly impose on those who have DOD pay for their health care."
Our calculated global warming in this case is 16C, with warming at the poles approximately 30C. Calculated warming over land areas averages approximately 20C.
These estimates are much lower than previous estimates, particularly on the implied acceleration. For instance Rignot et al 2011 looking at the period calculated polar ice melt contribution to sea levels of 0.91 mm yr 1 , 50% higher than the UNIPCC. Further the acceleration on this paper from polar ice melt was 0.1 mm yr 2 1 mm yr 2 and 0. 133 mm yr 2 including non-polar ice melt. Even at this rate of acceleration ice melt would only contribute 6 inches (150mm) to sea level rise. The upper NOAA estimates seem to be based upon taking this extreme figures and doubling them.
Another renowned scientist with objections to the Big Bang had additional problems in the 1930s. Einstein won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921 for thephotoelectric effect . He was a marked man in his Nazi occupied homeland and luckily fled to America in 1933. Einstein was in the unfortunate position of begging for funds to develop an atomic weapon. His begging letters to FDR are available on-line.
23 See citations in Corporate Environmental Enforcement Council, supra note 17, pp. 13-15.
Ironically, it is Schneiderman whose claims about global warming are at odds with actual climate data over the last 30 years, not Exxon.
Following the early Holocene warming Siple Dome data indicate significant cooling between 6400 and 6200 years ago, followed by relatively milder temperatures over East Antarctica 6000 3000 years ago that lasted until about 1200 years ago in the Siple Dome area. There then seems to have been a flattening and a slight decline in temperature starting 1200 1000 years ago, followed by warming in the last few decades.
Roughly speaking, there are two major coursechanging techniques.
??? The density, scalability, and portability of oil, gas, and coal make them affordable, reliable, and flexible for average consumers,?? my article concluded. ???Wind turbines and solar panels, contrarily, are expensive, intermittent, and inflexibleand have their own set of health and safety issues.??
Lohmann et al plotted the geologically reconstructed temperatures and compared them to modeled temperature curves from the ECHO-G Model. What did they find? The modeled trends underestimated the geologically reconstructed temperature trend by a factor of two to five. Other scientists have come up with similar results (e.g. Lorenz et al. 2006, Brewer et al. 2007, Schneider et al. 2010).
This question about whether or not the IPCC model predictions(as represented by the GISS models) are still consistent even withthe largeLoeb et alestimate should have been a majorpart of their article.The Loeb et al 2012 even cited the Hansen paper but did not take the next step and complete model and observational comparisons. That the IPCC models are close to being refuted with respect to the magnitude of global warmingeven with the large Loeb et al values is an unspoken result of their findings. They missed a major implication from their results.
Virtually all the advice from the Left on this subject has been for scientists to improve their communication skills, as if another layer of spin will help. As the British government's new chief scientific adviser notes, perhaps the best advice is simply for scientists to be more honest about the uncertainties in climate-change science. That will allow their advice to be given the correct weight by the public and their representatives in the democratic process. Any other advice is simply confused.
Ed Contoski and I examine the research showing renewable energyincluding wind, solar, and ethanolhas no substantial place in our nation's energy mix. Along the way, we explore how misplaced fears of anthropogenic global warming have led to erroneous beliefs in the value of renewable energy.
Although Wilson claims his species-area curve has been "established by hundreds of independent studies," the criticisms of it are born out in real-world observations. "In the eastern United States, for example, during the first 300 years of European settlement, woodlands were broken up into fragments, none large than 1 to 2 percent of the original vast forest, but only three forest birds became extinct the carolina parakeet, the passenger pigeon, and the ivory-billed woodpecker. Moreover, habitat loss probably did not play the major role in their demise: The parakeet and the pigeon were hunted to death. (U.S. News, p. 82)
Sounds like the some critics are 100% correct.
Carbon dioxide from human activities will most likely cause dangerous climate change in the foreseeable future.
None of the models used by IPCC are initialized to the observed state and none of the climate states in the models correspond even remotely to the current observed climate.
Oxford University students lose faith in warming
Reconstructed sea surface temperatures of the NE Atlantic are shown in the second graph, with the end of the 20th century at the left side of the graph. The smoothed data indicates a cooling of approximately 3C over the past 2,400 years.
Climatologists are pessimistic that political leaders will take any positive action to compensate for the climatic change, or even to allay its effects. They concede that some of the more spectacular solutions proposed, such as melting the Arctic ice cap by covering it with black soot or diverting arctic rivers, might create problems far greater than those they solve.
The Soviet model was defeated not only on the economic and social levels; it was defeated on a cultural level. Our society, our people, the most educated, the most intellectual, rejected that model on the cultural level because it does not respect the man, oppresses him spiritually and politically.
These reductions in airborne pollutants and improvements in air quality are especially impressive in that U.S. Gross Domestic Product increased roughly 150 percent since 1970, and energy consumption increased by roughly 40 percent since 1970. Even holding the line on air pollution at 1970 levels would have been quite impressive given the substantial increase in U.S. population and economic and industrial activity.
Wente: Kpenhamn var inget politiskt haveri. Det var ett intellektuellt haveri av s hpnadsvckande karaktr att framtida generationer kommer att frvnas ver dess blinda naivitet. Kpenhamn var ett klassiskt fall av en kejsare utan klder.
They were on a roll and they continued stating The global climate warming is not solely affected by the CO2 greenhouse effect. The best example is temperature obviously cooling however atmospheric CO2 concentration is ascending from 1940s to 1970s. Although the CO2 greenhouse effect on global climate changes is unsuspicious, it could have been excessively exaggerated. It is high time to re-consider the global climate changes.
What the United States and Canada are experiencing right now is making global warming alarmists such as Al Gore look quite foolish. The following are 10 of Al Gores stupidest global warming quotes
Is global warming causing snow to melt thereby increasing the flow in the winter season? Absolutely not. St. George discovers that Streamflow between October and March is most strongly related to precipitation between August and October, with significant relationships observed using lags up to 6 months. Sure enough, he finds that Rising winter discharge across the basin has coincided with increasing annual and seasonal precipitation and that This change largely reflects increases in summer (MayJuly) and autumn (AugustOctober) precipitation, as no significant trends were observed for winter (November to January) precipitation.
Schumer opens: "Thank you for writing to express your opposition to tax credits, and subsidies for alternative energy. I share your opposition to unsuccessful and unnecessary subsides."
Coauthors of Rutherford et al (J Climate 2005) ( pdf ) were Rutherford, Mann, Bradley, Hughes, Jones, Osborn and Briffa. Its editor was Andrew Weaver. It was formally submitted on Sept 16, 2003, received two reviews in January 2004, revised and resubmitted on June 29, 2004, accepted without revision on September 27, 2004 and published in July 2005.
It is abundantly clear from Stambaugh et al.'s findings that there is nothing unusual, unnatural or unprecedented about any 20th or 21st century droughts that may have occurred throughout the agricultural heartland of the United States. It is also clear that the much greater droughts of the past millennium occurred during periods of both relative cold and relative warmth, as well as the transitions between them. Thus, to testify that "droughts are becoming longer and more intense," and to imply that they are doing so because of global warming, is to be doubly disingenuous.
A recent report published by the Global Warming Policy Foundation and written by Princeton professor William Happerone of nation's pre-eminent physicistsexplains how and why the public has been misled about the global warming threat. He begins by quoting the forward written by Charles Mackay for the book "Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds":
putting more energy into it (in the post-industrial age, energy means
Nor can it do so without encouraging the agency to fool and trick Congress, as it didduring the Senate debates on the the Murkowski resolution and Inhofe legislation, when statements by McCarthy and the Air Office seemingly disavowed any ambition to bankrupt investors in new coal power plants. Whatever their party affiliation or views on climate change, Senators should dislike being hoodwinked.
In 2003 and 2005, I was working to pass the Clear Skies bill, which was the most aggressive initiative in history to reduce emissions of sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, and mercury in fact, this bill would have reduced mercury emissions by 70% by 2018. So in just 6 years from now, we would already have had a 70% reduction. It was a plan that would have improved our air by reducing utility emissions faster, cheaper, and more efficiently than the Clean Air Act as it still stands today. And it would have done all this without harming jobs.
Heres Dr David Jones from the Australian Bureau of Meteorology in 2008
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For more on the study the Obama administration did not want you to read, see here and here.
A considerably more important issue is foreign trade. Opponents of freer trade tend to aggregate support and have arguments that appeal to certain voters. Labor unions reflexively oppose trade agreements, in memory of all those auto and steel jobs that disappeared some 35 years ago. Immigration restrictionists fear trade pacts would increase guest worker immigration.
Judge Kavanaugh argues that rewriting the CAA not only exceeds the EPA?s statutory authority, it is also unnecessary because the PSD provisions can and should be read as applying only to pollutants regulated under the national ambient air quality standards (NAAQS) program. There are no NAAQS for GHGs.
Of course, it doesn't make any sense for automakers to conform to two different fuel efficiency regulations, which is why the Bush administration refused to allow California to set its own standard. President Obama simply substituted Congress's 2002 CAFE targets with California's.
30 inches (75 cm) of snow were measured in Zurich-Fluntern, more than has ever been seen here since the measurements were taken in 1949.
The photosynthetic capacities of all six species were limited by the current low value of the atmosphere's CO 2 concentration. In addition, the stomatal conductances of all species declined with increasing CO 2 , so that their water use efficiencies all rose as the air's CO 2 content climbed. What it means
At the very end, about 27 minutes, they find web sites with creation dates prior to the event as memorials
Direct studies of sea level are showing only small rises. Sea level data for the United States and a few other countries can be sighted at: http://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrends/sltrends.shtml . Most stations show a rise of sea level of about 1.7mm per year, but there is considerable variation even within a single state. Australian records can be sighted in Parker et al. 2013.
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I owe you this oneSierra Rayne says precip in the NE is in the range of usual
Congratulations on being asked to speak to Congress about climate change and security.
Read it first: Climate/Energy section of Obama SOTU here!
A study by Navigant Consulting, prepared for Arizona Public Service utilities, showed that the amount solar customers pay for electricity (after bill credits) is below the utilities costs for servicing those customers. Utilities must then charge its non-solar customers to cover the fixed costs solar customers are avoiding in self-generation, leading to higher bills for those non-solar customers.
Oh, and those aren?t just failed forecasts?they are failed hindcasts. Even knowing the answer, the climate modelers can?t explain why the Earth hasn?t warmed as fast as it was supposed to.
The results of this study are just one more example of the almost embarrassingly obvious fact that data from all around the globe demonstrate the reality of the millennial-scale climatic oscillation that has brought the planet the Medieval Warm Period, the Little Ice Age and now the Modern Warm Period, along with earlier named and unnamed climatic intervals of like nature, totally independent of changes in the air's CO 2 concentration. References
But I haven't told you that they generally do so to different extents. The ratio of the two Higgs doublets' vacuum expectation values
5. (Posts chart of accumulated cyclone energy trends) ???And consequently, an inconvenient truth is, the tropical cyclone accumulated energy is down at record low levels, not record high levels.??
Indeed, coming after three of the last four years being the coldest since 1996, the warmth in 2014 is no more than a reflection of the weather.
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Science the GOP cant wish away , November 19 th 2010
Hawaii: $340 M in Solar Credits in last 10 years
Krull et al . conclude their paper by saying their findings "stress the importance of viewing soils as dynamic systems and indicating the potential for soil organic carbon sequestration in grazed semi-arid woodlands," which land use represents a form of agroforestry whose virtues have recently been touted by Mutuo et al . (2005) .?? Also, their findings suggest the operation of an important negative feedback phenomenon that has the potential to slow the rate-of-rise of the air's CO 2 content, wherein the ongoing enrichment of the air with CO 2 from the burning of fossil fuels enables woody species to more readily colonize less productive grasslands and thereby extract greater amounts of CO 2 from the atmosphere, which tends to retard atmospheric CO 2 's upward concentration trend while simultaneously providing many benefits to the soil and the plants that grow upon it. References
In the words of Schubert and Jahren, "if the below-ground biomass enhancement that we have quantified for R. sativus represents a generalized root-crop response that can be extrapolated to agricultural systems, below-ground fertilization under very high CO 2 levels could dramatically augment crop production in some of the poorest nations of the world." And "needless to say," as they continue, "a doubling or tripling of below-ground crop tissue due to CO 2 fertilization would be welcome on both a nutritional and economic basis." References
being run up under the Toxic Assets Relief Program or the 2009 stimulus
"My plan will keep these investments, and we'll keep reducing the carbon pollution that's also heating the planet, because climate change isn't a hoax. The droughts we've seen, the floods, the wildfires those aren't a joke. They're a threat to our children's future. And we can do something about it. That's part of what's at stake in this election," Obama said.
Disadvantages: There are two main disadvantages of using only one data set. These are: one may be suspected of cherry picking and one increases error. The difficulties with the first can be largely minimized by explaining ones data choice prior to performing an analysis.
There's a lot more agreement about (1) a modest warming trend since about 1850 than there is about (2) the cause of that trend. There's even less agreement about (3) the dangers of that trend, or of (4) what to do about it. But these four propositions are frequently bundled together, so that if you doubt one, you're labeled a climate change "skeptic" or "denier." That's just plain intellectually dishonest. When well-established claims are fused with separate, more controversial claims, and the entire conglomeration is covered with the label "consensus," you have reason for doubt.
Peer review is a way of screening out opposing views. Skeptics of climate change have a difficult time getting published.
We were very excited when we realized a lot of changes in the past century from warmer to cooler and then back to warmer were all natural, says Anastosios Tsonis, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. Read more here .