Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
That's a highly regressive tax increase, since lowest-income earners don't make a third of what highest-income earners make, but they would incur a third as much cost. It's regressive in the same way as the 1932 excise tax increase by Herbert Hoover that deepened the misery of the Great Depression.
CFACT is headed to Brazil to expose these dreadful, potentially devastating policy proposals and inject some much needed common sense and attention to people's needs into the deliberations.
who's reviewing whose papers and grant applications, then not only
Meanwhile, Ms. Yates wants prosecutors to employ the Responsible Corporate Officers Doctrine (or Park Doctrine) more often, to hold executives individually accountable for the actions of company employees, without requiring that the government prove the execs intended to break any laws or even that senior managers were negligent or didn't even know someone in the company was violating a law.
It offers a similar depiction of the world into categories of right and wrong to that adopted in Anderegg et al.s 2010 equally poor study in PNAS: dividing publishing climate scientists into believers and non-believers. It seems to me that these people are still living (or wishing to live) in the pre-2009 world of climate change discourse. Havent they noticed that public understanding of the climate issue has moved on?
The currency lines are interesting, with a clear August intervention start by the Swiss Central Bank (probably coordinated with the other central banks.) A great example of why you dont want to ride a strong Swiss Franc too long. The Euro is dropping (no surprise there) and the dollar is rising. (The UUP is largely a Euro short so tends to move in opposition to the Euro. EUO is a Euro double short, so is more leveraged. You can see that both lines have the same shape with different amplifications.)
So, a few months ago a website called Scholars and Rogues published an incredibly lame attempt by Brian Angliss to show why nobody needed to read The Hockey Stick Illusion, citing the low number of emails that were leaked as evidence that we didn??t have enough evidence. When Steve Mosher pointed out that a crooked accountant probably had numerous accurate transactions to his credit, but that only one was needed to prove him criminal, Mr. Angliss and Scholars and Rogues sort of went away.
Introducing their intriguing study, Reef and Lovelock (2014) write that specific leaf area or SLA - which is the ratio of leaf area to weight - is "a key indicator of CO 2 -induced changes in photosynthetic activity and growth," citing Cornelissen et al . (1999), Medlyn et al . (1999), Yin (2002) and Poorter and Navas (2003), due to the fact that "species that respond more strongly to elevated CO 2 (e.g. grow more rapidly or assimilate more carbon) also show steeper declines in SLA as CO 2 increases," citing Cornelissen et al . (1999). And they also note, in this regard, that "tree species with initially higher SLA values respond more strongly, in terms of photosynthesis and/or growth to elevated CO 2 than tree species with initially lower SLA," once again citing the study of Cornelissen et al . (1999) as well as the newer work of Ali et al . (2013).
Die Zeit tells the story of a little round man namedMichael Mann and his hockey stick chart, which they sayis proof that humans are at fault for climate change . Die Zeit however blames Morano and the Heartland Institute for undermining the hockey sticks credibilityand fanning skepticism and lies. The hockey stick was attacked by Willie Soon who, Die Zeit explains, received over 1 million dollars from ExxonMobil and other corporations .
Over 13.7 million Americans remain unemployed; another 8.3 million are involuntarily employed only part-time; black unemployment stands at 15.3 percent; and gasoline prices have hit $4 per gallon, foretelling more rough waters ahead for the still fragile US economy.
Hide the lies generated lawsuits between climate science believers (what kind of real science requires belief ?) and skeptics of dangerous man-made planetary warming along with ridiculous conspiracy theories such as Big Oil hired evil hackers in a plot to discredit angelic climate scientists.
Although he admitted Greenpeace had released inaccurate but alarming information, Leipold defended the organizations practice of emotionalizing issues in order to bring the public around to its way of thinking and alter public opinion.
The challenge to the IPCC community, now that their duplicity has been exposed, is to communicate to all of us why the peer-reviewedpapers thatwe documented, and that were available in time for the IPCC review process,were considered bad papers and thus ignored in the IPCC report. A balancedassessment would comment on these papers, and provide the reason they disagree with their results.
We already know that none of the officials at half-time paid any attention to which gauge they were using and inattentively switched gauges between Patriot and Colt measurements. Once Anderson put his gauge back into his pocket, it would be random which was gauge was used next. Suppose that Anderson measured eleven Patriot balls using the Logo gauge, finding two underinflated even with this gauge, and then put his gauge back into his pocket, making a fresh draw when it was time to re-gauge the two Patriot balls. But this time, he drew the Non-Logo gauge and deflated the Patriot balls to 12.5 psi (Non-Logo gauge), yielding the two balls in this second group.
230 million years ago, when the land was dominated by dinosaurs, the oceans were controlled by coccolithophores , one-celled marine plants (a kind of phytoplankton). Tomorrow, a peer-reviewed paper in Science M. Debora Iglesias-Rodriguez, Paul R. Halloran & their 11 disciples: Phytoplankton Calcification in a High-CO2 World will argue that according to lab tests as well as direct observations of the sea bed, coccolithophores thrive. Over the past 220 years, their volume has increased by 40% or so. They are a cornerstone of the ecosystem. For example, they help to remove carbon and lock it in rocks as they die and sink.
He cites many liberal Democrats' opposition to trade agreements, which they claim is "qualified," not because they're opposed to liberalized trade per se, but because they think it should be made "fair" through a morass of side agreements and provisions dealing with potential adverse effects from the increased trade.
"Energy policy" is a term of interest primarily to politicians, not to ordinary Americans. Ordinary Americans want lots of energy at low prices. They don't want to foot the tab through taxes to subsidize one form of energy over another. They don't want to block pipelines bringing jobs and energy to America. Energy in America today is plentiful at lower prices not because of the wisdom of politicians to implement a clever "energy policy," but despite the repeated stupidities of our government which has implemented polices at war with oil, gas and ordinary Americans.
Global warming policies championed by former Vice President Al Gore, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, and several Members of Congress clash with America's long-term economic and energy interests. These policy makers advocate 70-, 80-, and even 90-percent reductions in carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by mid-century. Yet the federal Energy Information Administration (EIA) projects a 34-percent increase in U.S. emissions by 2030. Emissions tend to increase along with increases in population and economic output. Is it possible to reduce emissions by 70 percent or more without severe cutbacks in either economic or population growth?
"Ohio's concealed-carry law requires anyone stopped by police to immediately notify the officer if they are armed. Failure to do so is a first-class misdemeanor that can result in a six-month jail term and a thousand-dollar fine, as well as losing the license to carry. It's usually not considered a death penalty offense, unless one gets pulled over in Canton, Ohio, in a case highlighted today by Ohioans for Concealed Carry:"
The relevance to Michael Mann?s situation is that Penn State?s new President started his career at Penn State in the same position Mann now holds: Director of the Earth System Science Center. Hard to imagine that Barron won?t take an interest in lawsuits involving Mann.
other nations should help bring pressure not because America asked them to or
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The relationships between wine consumption, clinical endpoints, and circulating biomarkers were evaluated in 6973 patients with chronic heart failure enrolled in a multicenter clinical trial. Whereas objective clinical endpoints did not differ significantly based on wine consumption, patients who consumed wine more frequently perceived themselves to be healthier and experienced less frequent symptoms of depression. Those who consumed wine more frequently also had lower levels of circulating biomarkers of inflammation.
"Wow, Dad. How could your Concerto for Gamelan and Nose Flute possibly compete with such rampant pretentiousness and pseudery?"
Figure 2. A comparison between modeled and observed trends in the average temperature of the lower atmosphere, for periods ranging from 10 to 32 years (during the period 1979 through 2010). The yellow is the 5-95 percentile range of individual model projections, the green is the model average, the red and blue are the average of the observations, as compiled by Remote Sensing Systems and University of Alabama in Huntsville respectively (adapted from Santer et al., 2011).
The Italian Senate stands for climate realism. A motion passed on last Wednesday commits the Italian government to promote a sound discussion on climate policies with the European Union and the United Nations, with particular regard to the major changes that have occurred after the economic recession, the Climategate scandal, and the failure to reach a global deal in Copenhagen. In fact, the Senate asks both that the current commitments under the EU climate and energy package are re-negotiated, and that an independent investigation is started on the IPCC process.
Yet the landscape is far from bleak. Opportunities beckon for real pro-gress in the development of Israeli-Palestinian relations.
What is the problem with raising suspicious of cherry picking? Of course no one cherry picks.
According to the temperature records kept by the UK Met Office (and other series are much the same), over the past 150 years (that is, from the very beginnings of the Industrial Revolution), mean global temperature has increased by a little under a degree centigrade according to the Met Office, 0.8C. This has happened in fits and starts, which are not fully understood. To begin with, to the extent that anyone noticed it, it was seen as a welcome and natural recovery from the rigours of the Little Ice Age. But the great bulk of it 0.5C out of the 0.8C occurred during the last quarter of the 20th century. It was then that global warming alarmism was born.
Patrick Moore, co-founder and former president of Greenpeace
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) was left bemused recently when it became apparent he cannot even build a solar power plant in the middle of the Mojave Desert. And when demand gets really high and the state's remaining hydropower plants are offline because of drought, rolling blackouts like those of 2005 will be inevitable. This is the energy policy that President Obama is now trying to impose on the rest of the nationto cut out all affordable sources of energy and cause bills to, as he said, "skyrocket," to encourage development of alternative energy sources.
Obama won less than 20% of US by area, so the press corps his Pravda corpse has been rapidly ramping up the lies about his mandate . This is needed to begin dismantling the US constitution and allow a few coastal cities to destroy the rest of America.
Australian Meteorologists Caught Fudging Temperature Measurements
Which leads to Impossible Outcome 3. In greenhouse physics, the sky responds to the surface by matching its temperature and emission. The surface then responds to the sky by getting warmer and radiating twice as much as it would without the influence of greenhouse gases. But then, why is it that these gases cease to respond to the surfaces higher temperature and emission? Facing a body thats radiating 478 W/m, this infrared-absorbing layer should supposedly stay in character and radiate 478 W/m back to the surface and another 478 W/m out to space. Yet it stubbornly remains at -18 although the surface it responds to has reached 30.
And Norman Myers says that "Given that we are witnessing a mass extinction of exceptional scope, should it not be sufficient to make a best-judgement assessment of what is going on should the burden of proof not be shifted onto the shoulders of the skeptics and have them prove their point rather than the reverse?
The CFC ban empowered and emboldened the eco-left. It paved the way for their next big scam. The environmentalists scored a big win when they finally banned DDT and doomed millions to a bleak death. Their subsequent eco-scares were not so successful. They were never able to affect global action in their belief in zero population growth. Widespread starvation and scarcity of resources has not happened. Pesticides and herbicides have proven not to be deadly to children. Acid rain has not resulted in widespread deforestation. High power transmission lines do not cause cancer. The use of chlorine produces more safe, potable water than any other intervention. The CFC ban gave them a "win," and it was based on some of the most specious, tenuous science one can imagine. But it proved a point: Proven science need not trump environmental ideology.
No new ml for a reduction of carbon dioxide emissions in 2030 will be announced frrn after the next elections to the EU Parliament in 2014, says a topptjnsteman.
EU Commission President Romano Prodi had to intervene personally (Feb. 25) to reiterate the EU's commitment to the Kyoto Protocol in the event of Russian non-ratification. The Commission then released a document (Memo/04/43, Mar. 4) restating its public position.
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Senior Fellow Eli Lehrer on Castro's presidential legacy: "While centrally planned communism has never helped any nation's economy in the long run, Cuba seems to have had it particularly bad: Between World War II and the 1960s, indeed, communist Eastern Europe rebuilt at roughly the same rate as the West only to see economic growth nosedive after that. Cuba, on the other hand, has seen its living standard drop from the third highest in the Americas (after the U.S. and Canada) to one of the lowest."
Please spread the word in any way available to you. If you have questions, my contact details are below, but please do not ring just to chat.Were flat out fighting for our own survival, in addition to attempting to organize details for this event.
There are substantial shorter term fluctuations in temperature, and since about 1850 world temperatures have been recovering from a Little Ice Age up by about +0.7C up until the year 2000. These fluctuations have correlated well with solar activity observable by the number of sunspots. There was a particularly active solar period from about 1970 onward coinciding well with sunspot cycles 21 22 23: it led to comparatively rapid warming.
One of 1199's most celebrated victories came in 1999, when an extraordinary $13 million lobbying campaign persuaded lawmakers to spend over $1 billion to expand Medicaid through a program called Family Health Plus, which would extend coverage to 600,000 previously uninsured adults. The union paid its lobbying bill by redirecting money from the 1199 pension fund, which was, at the time, overfunded.
By Judith Curry, Climate Etc. Aug 12, 2015
In fact, if the chart went further back, you??d see that temperatures have been warmer than today for most of geologic history.
When you get down to it, folks, it's all about money. Always follow the money. The left and the ruling class love to say that they do things out of altruism, out of compassion, big hearts, and these people are a bunch of lazy SOBs who have no business in the private sector 'cause they can't succeed there. The only way they can succeed is to be a bunch of brownnosers in the ruling class and try to move their way up that ladder and get whatever they can out of the public trough. The ruling class has gotten rich off of government.
What to expect for the lobster? It may benefit at the beginning in terms of faster growth due to warmer temperatures, she said.
It's said that the Senate won't ratify, so don't worry. Indeed, before the conference the Senate voted unanimously that developing countries must sign on if the treaty is to be acceptable. But 130 countries did not do so, and, together, they are expected to cause over half the global emissions within a few years. In seeking peace with the environmentalists, then, the Clinton administration yielded to extremism, and after Kyoto it was difficult to find any politician on the record as supporting the treaty. It has the beneficial effect of reconstituting the old Reagan anticommunist coalition, including libertarians, labor rank and file, and conservatives of both neo and paleo stripe. Even Dick Gephardt refused to endorse the treaty as it stands. It's "a work in progress," he said.
supposed to arrive inoh, some time around 2055. In other words, we are not
A new paper published in the Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres finds Arctic sea ice concentrations at the low of each summer are related to absorption of sunlight by cloud cover at the top of the atmosphere in early summer, a phenomenon " not represented in most of current climate models."
CEI: On refinancing, once again Mr. President, it's not the sequester that scares wise investors. It's the schemes from you and other politicians (including Republicans) that treat investors as "the forgotten man." Losses to investors, including 401(k)s from similar refinancing proposals have been estimated to be $13 billion to $15 billion. This could eat away any stimulus from the extra money borrowers have due to lower interest payments, the stimulus that Obama and supporters of his plan are banking on.
These and other diseases thrive in various climates warm as well as cool. What has made the difference is the level of economic development that provides access to modern medicine, higher living standards, and other means to prevent the spread of illness.34
The Democratic Partys leading and prohibitively favored frontrunner candidate for the presidential nomination said she wants to change the First Amendment in order to further empower the political class to regulate the quantity, content and timing of political speech about the political class and so far as I can tell theres not a ripple of commentary about this on the stagnant waters of the American journalistic community.
Southern Co., one of the country's largest energy companies, has given $100,000 to the PIC, company spokesman Tim Leljedal tells me. What value do Southern Co.'s shareholders get from this expenditure? "This is really about supporting the celebration of the presidency," Leljedal said.
The effect is harmless (to the contrary, CO2-increases and slight global warming are beneficial for man and thus desirable) and show that the overly alarmist prognoses for future climate developments as fully inappropriate.
Reader-friendly multimedia package covers the crucial but enigmatic role of clouds on climate change, and how scientists are defining that role
election-year books about President Obama's national security record thus far. James Mann and David Sanger are among the most sure-handed journalists on that particular beat. In their accounts of
It's a classic and often effective political argument, pitting Big Gas against the poor, or in Dow's view, Big Gas against poor Big Chemical. It's classic populism, which has guaranteed that their position would make the rounds of activist web sites. All it lacks is evidence.
What we have now is a soft boot administrative state fascism/statism/socialist America and Europe.
Also, IPCC has no rules for data archiving and sharing. This resulted in Phil Jones not making his raw temperature data available, even when critics asked for this data via FOI requests. IPCC nevertheless uses these data as one of the basic pillars in their global warming edifice.
Well, the Earth does not emit this flux of energy. That is way too high of value. If you converted that value into total energy emitted per second over the entire globe, it would be more energy than actually comes in. The known and measured value for the flux output from the Earth is 240 W/m2.
The ISO-NE??s New England Wind Integration Study (NEWIS), published in December 2010 made clear that many favorable sites for wind development are remote from New England??s load centers and that development of these distant sites would require significant transmission development. According to NEWIS, developing 20% wind in New England would require 4,095 miles of new lines at an estimated cost of between $11 and $15 billion. Regulatory agencies have had full knowledge of the transmission constraints and costs since 2010 and yet you have made no attempt to address this issue through policy changes or course corrections. In 2013, the public is only now becoming aware that deployment of utility-scale wind generation is stressing the region??s grid, and making the management of generation sources more difficult.
The collapse of A123 "as well as the January bankruptcy of another electric-car-battery maker, Ener1, the recipient of a $118 million DOE grant "provides yet another example of the Obama administration's costly and unsuccessful backing of the electric-car business.
Downplaying the facts, EPA used the situation to stir concerns about the safety of natural gas development. The same is true of the agencys involvement in last months rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline
Few people realize that by the geologic definition, the Earth is presently in an ice age that began 2.6 million years ago , because by the geologic definition there are ice caps on the North and South poles. Many much warmer periods in the past had no ice caps on either pole for millions of years, alligators were thriving in the Arctic , and Antarctica had the climate of the tropics today .
?Recently, you may have noticed that global warming has been getting some attention in the news.?
Countless other evaluations by scientific bodies worldwide over more than two decades have concluded that there is no scientific justification for regulating genetically engineered crops any differently from conventional ones. Nevertheless, U.S. regulatory agencies, including the USDA, Environmental Protection Agency, and Food and Drug Administration, have implemented costly and wholly unnecessary regulatory policies that subject only biotech crops to years of government-monitored pre-commercial testing and approval requirements.
In a short space I won't have time to cover more than a representative selection of Abraham's errors. Let's begin, though, with the question of sources.
India: Only six states submit action plan on climate change: Panigrahi Ahmedabad: Only six states so far have submitted the state action plan on climate change to the Centre, Adviser to the Prime Minister on Climate Change said here on Saturday. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had urged all the states to submit a state action plan on climate change, detailing on how they are going to tackle this sensitive issue in all the sectors. ... "The states have failed to submit the action plan on climate change including Gujarat even after of expiry of two subsequent deadlines of December 31, 2009 and March 31 this year," Panigrahi said. List of Indian states India is a Union of 28 States and 7 Union Territories.