Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
CO2 is the "Big Kahuna". Even if CH4 has 20X the greenhouse effect of CO2. 1800 ppb is 0.46% of 390 ppm 20 X 0.46% = 9.2%. At most, CH4 accounts for only about 10% of the greenhouse effect of CO2 in Earth's current atmosphere.
The trends mirror the feeling among Americans that the overall state of the environment is improving. According to an April 2005 PRI Harris Interactive poll, 56 percent of respondents revealed they are optimistic about the state of the environment and future progress on environmental quality.
Here in Tanzania we have also been happy to welcome the UK Met Office, working alongside the Tanzanian Meteorological Agency to provide advice and guidance on future plans. We were delighted to welcome two UKMO staff emembers David Robinson and Tim Donovan.
However, I will say that the mandarins like the idea of nosocomial (hospital acquired) infections as a way to blame hospitals for infections and they set up their research so that any infection can be blamed on the hospital and its staff.
It's not as if those in the Northeast have not experienced bone-chilling cold or that it is predicted to extend from the Midwest down into our southern States. There may possibly be a snow storm that will require the National Football League to reschedule the Sunday, February 2nd, Superbowl at the MetLife stadium in East Rutherford, N.J. Crews spent 18 hours working to remove the snow from last week's storm.
Recognition of this interest has already produced significant cooperation in such matters as intelligence, the apprehension of suspected terrorists, and the training and equipping of Palestinian security forces.
The result of the error is that I have underestimated the sensitivity slightly, while everything else remains the same. Instead of the sensitivities for the SH and the NH being 0.04C per W/m2 and 0.08C per W/m2 respectively in the both the current calculations, the correct sensitivities for this fat-tailed analysis should have been 0.04C per W/m2 and 0.09C per W/m2. The error was slightly larger in the previous thread, increasing them to 0.05 and 0.10 respectively. I have updated the tables above accordingly.
After OSTP persisted in keeping these records secret, CEI sued it in federal court in October 2014, one of many FOIA lawsuits against the Obama administration. (The Huffington Post says that the "White House denies more FOIA requests than ever" these days. Former New York Times editor Jill Abramson says she has never seen a more secretive administration.)
Shows the part that disproves Al Gore false assumption on the relationship between CO2 and temperature.
MOOSE: I got something to tell you, and I dont want no argument about it. You ready? Listen good, cause I aint gonna repeat it, and you better have itor else. Got me? Here it is. If P, then Q. Q. Therefore P. Now say it back.
A Swedish industry association said the country may have to start importing waste from other countries to keep its power plant incinerators in operation.
Oh, I miss the days when you got a radiology report that said, "fracture right 3rd rib, no pneumothorax". Because of frivolous lawsuits radiologists have learned to be vague, noncommittal and to pass the buck of possible litigation. So now you get a 2 page report that says "linear lucency in right 3rd rib, clinical correlation recommended, underinflated lung fields cannot exclude underlying interstitial disease and or masses. CT recommended for further evaluation, if condition warrants." along with several other paragraphs of lawyer imposed legalmedspeak".
Because of this mismatch of private and social costs, agents maximizing private net benefits will overuse the atmosphere's GHG disposal capacity. Cumulatively, emission levels exceed those at which the additional risk of climate change would just balance the value of the gases' disposal. And investments in carbon "sinks' like forests or carbon stored in soils are falling below optimal levels.
Most important, it would reduce warming even if certain countries who shall remain nameless did not agree to reduce their emissions.
Coral atolls have proven over thousands of years that, if left alone, they can go up and down with any sea level rise. And if we follow some simple conservation practices, they can continue to do so and to support atoll residents. But they cannot survive an unlimited population increase, or unrestricted fishing, or overpumping the water lens, or unrestrained coral mining.
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Richard Lindzen of klimatknsligheten, iris hypothesis and the politicization of Climate Change: The facts
A blockbuster Chinese study of Tibetan tree rings by Liu et al 2011 shows, with detail, that the modern era is a dog-standard normal climate when compared to the last 2,500 years. The temperature, the rate of change ??? it??s all been seen before. Nothing about the current period is ???abnormal??, indeed the current warming period in Tibet can be produced through calculation of cycles. Liu et al do a Fourier analysis on the underlying cycles and do brave predictions as well.
For ease of use and immunity from political meddling, the carbon tax is the clear winner. Taxes can be applied early in the fuel distribution process, which makes the logistical task much easier. That sort of upstream application would make attempts at political interference much more transparent, as well. So what about uncertainty? The big critique of a carbon tax is that it cannot guarantee a country will come in under a pre-set emissions cap. If the desire to pollute is really, really high one year, we could find that a given tax won't serve as a sufficient deterrent, and we'll blow past our limits.
So how do they create this fraud? They constantly cool the past and warm the present. All temperatures before 1967 have been cooled since their 2001 version, and all post-1967 years have been warmed. Based on the 1992 to 1998 inflation rate, it seems likely that 2014 is being inflated by several tenths of a degree relative to 1998, in the currentversion.
Press Release No:2010/505/ WASHINGTON, June 25, 2010 World Bank President Robert B. Zoellick today announced the appointment of Andrew Steer as Special Envoy for Climate Change, a new position created to ensure focused leadership and representation of the World Bank in the international discussions around climate change.
As for drought, there is no long-term trend in U.S. soil moisture such as might be correlated with the increase in atmospheric GHG concentrations.
We held our local UKIP branch AGM last night where I was elected as vice chair and webcomms officer. Im looking foward to working more closely with my committee colleagues Craig Sweaton (chair & media comms), Anne Murgatroyd (secretary) and Phil Banks (treasurer). The mainstream media is mis-portraying what UKIP stand for, so I thought Id republish this short piece fromStuart OReilly at Oxford University to counter the misinformation:
In todays The-Scientist pity-me piece , Michael Mann goes out of his way to assert is an accidental public figure. Why?
The British government is looking into cutting subsidies, feed-in tariffs and other incentives for solar projects, to prevent the boom-and-bust seen in Spain and predicted for the Czech Republic. Wind turbines, small hydroelectric plants and biomass projects are also on the block, as the government attempts to revive the UK economy, raise its competitiveness, radically reduce rising debt burdens, and chart a more economically and politically realistic course.
Does the Wada groundwater correction make any difference? Look at figure 4 and notice that around 1985 the groundwater depletion correction overtakes the reservoir correction. Before 1985 the combination of the two corrections yield a sea level rise rate that is greater than the plain Church and White data, but after that the sea level rise rate is lower. The groundwater depletion data only goes to the year 2000, but if the exponential extrapolation holds, then by 2010 the reduced sea level rise rate will be even more pronounced.
The widely used number of 3.1 mm/year is a complete joke.
* Americans like an "all-of-the-above" approach to energy development, including continuing to develop nuclear energy. Most prefer that the U.S. emphasize conservation over production to solve the nation's energy problems.
When he first became Governor of California, Arnold created high expectations with his talk of "blowing up the boxes" of government bureaucracy. Unfortunately, California's regulatory bureaucracy remains intact. And with his foolhardy greenhouse activism, the Governator has handed his constituents yet another raw deal.
More pertinently, Mrs Metcalfe claims that some communities in Scotland are being driven to a state of civil war: Wind farms are splitting communities and dividing friends. Some land-owners are being so generously rewarded for selling or leasing their land to developers that they are turning a blind-eye to whats really happening. Others, she said, who have the temerity to question the alleged benefits, are being subjected to death threats, insults, and burglaries, right across the country
The study is significant because plants soak up carbon from the atmosphere as they grow. As growth slows, the amount of carbon plants take up slows as well, leaving more carbon in the atmosphere to contribute to climate change. It is also a warning that a warming climate could bring a decrease in food and biofuel production.
But what if this supposed natural ocean fluctuation, which is supposedly cooling the surface, was reversed?
Cockburn, Alexander and Hecht, Susanna. The Fate of the Forest. New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 1990.
Now, by way of comparison, how much radiative forcing does James Hansen (GISS) estimate the climate system has undergone during the same period of time? The following plot shows the various forcings Hansen has assumed:
John also provided earlier surface data compiled by NASA-GISS and the Hadley Centre/University of East Anglia (Hadley-CRU). The close agreement between those trend results does not indicate independent confirmation. This shouldn't be at all surprising when we consider that they use mostly the same raw data.
seen in the 20th century, except perhaps for the Sahel. So in certain ways the
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The Vatican City would be an expression of the US itself, without international interference problems; the only principle which would increase and that the Presidents are responsible for what they do, and what they leave; many of the crimes would be out in the sunlight because it's better to be honest in front of the Vatican, who find themselves having to answer for crimes they did not have.
Well, with two years of said "no-call" legislation under the nation's belt, it seems that it isn't having the intended effect;
The result should be adjusted to allow for the finding in Michaels & McKitrick (2007) that urban heat island effects and other extraneous influences over the past 30 years have led to overestimation of the warming rate over land by as much as double. On the assumption that this bias may have existed since 1850, the true warming rate since then is equivalent to just 0.4 C (0.7 F) per century.
But there is a better more efficient system for taxing carbon emissions, and with the exquisite sensitivity of being directly connected to the exact amount emitted, Governments could just tax... fuel (and its not like they havent thought of that already).
Expedition vessel hired by global warming scientists
No wonder President Ray and the Nuclear Engineering deans have given new meaning to "payback," while DeFazio smirks in silence in the congressional office that he seems convinced should be his for life.
This method calculates daily accumulation of GDDs as the average daily temperature (degrees F) minus 50. The modification refers to the limits imposed on the daily maximum and minimum temperatures allowed in the calculation. Daily maximums greater than 86 degrees F are set equal to 86 in the calculation of the daily average temperature. Similarly, daily minimums less than 50 degrees F are set equal to 50 in the calculation.
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Clearly, the greater weight of real-world evidence in this controversy resides with Simms et al . and the many other researchers who have identified and dated a Little Ice Age in various parts of Antarctica that coincides in time with the Little Ice Age of the Northern Hemisphere. And that dating of the Little Ice Age, plus the comparing of its temperature with the temperatures that both preceded and followed it, also pretty much confirms the existence of the Medieval and Current Warm Periods in Antarctica, which are thus found to have occurred contemporaneously with the Medieval and Current Warm Periods in the Northern Hemisphere.
Although it may surprise many politicians, a few economic laws remain immutable. One of the most obvious and the most often ignored dictates that a price held below what supply and demand would prescribe will produce shortages, such as we see now causing rolling blackouts.
The truth is that Gore's desires for a huge concert on the Mall were actually thwarted not by Republicans, but by a very talented group of Irish Riverdance cloggers, Vietnamese folk artists, and African-American gospel singers. They were performing as scheduled at the acclaimed annual Smithsonian Folklife Festival and at a gospel show sponsored by the predominantly black Christian organization Together One Unity. It seems the "nefarious right-wingers" who organized these folk and gospel fests had the temerity to schedule their events with the National Park Service, which runs the Mall, weeks and months before Live Earth's organizers ever contacted the agency, and then not call them off when Gore let out a sneeze.
The revelations, uncovered by The Sunday Telegraph , have raised fresh questions about the quality of the information contained in the report, which was published in 2007.
Figure 2 presents the October sea surface temperatures (not anomalies) from 1938 to 2012 for Sandys entire storm track. Working back in time, sea surface temperatures in 2007, 2005 and 1939 were warmer than they were in 2012, while in 2002, 1957, 1952 and 1941 sea surface temperatures were comparable to those in 2012. That is, the October 2012 sea surface temperatures along Sandys storm track were NOT unusually warm.
The more modern CAG value uses the CDs to build the state value (this is a factor if stations are distributed unevenly within the state), it incorporates the late-arriving (in 1934) stations, several QA tests, etc.
Before you wrecked the climate, Indio and Brawley, CA recorded 117 and 116 degree temperatures on May 3/4 1947.
Some science has a bad relationship with the public: in particular, climate science and many life sciences. Whether due to misinformation or misunderstanding, controversy or contested results, politicisation or fear - or all of these - such scientific "hot potatoes" are dangerous because non-experts must engage with, trust, and understand scientific results to make well-informed decisions about themselves and society. They can also damage the reputation of science in terms of its impartiality or aim to improve human understanding and quality of life.
There is no evidence in the temperature record to support this claim. The three worst heatwaves in Texas history all occurred before 1935.
De Soto estimates that up to $10 trillion of capital worldwide is locked away unused because of inadequate titling systems. A recent study by the Peru-based Institute for Liberal Democracy (ILD), which De Soto heads, estimated Egyptian workers' real estate holdings to be worth around $360 billion, "eight times more than all the foreign direct investment in Egypt since Napoleon's invasion."
The unvalidated IPCC (including CSIRO)computer climate models that project significant human-caused warming in the future are faulty, with many known inadequacies; not surprisingly, therefore, these models have proved to be incorrect when compared with real-world temperature data;
Amstrup diligently followed up his earlier study on the apparent survival of South Beaufort Bears using radio-collared bears over a 12-year period. It turned out that his high-end apparent survival estimate of 94% was still too low. If only natural deaths were used, polar bears had a 99.6 % biological survival rate. 4 Most bears died at the hands of hunters. If death at the hands of hunters was also considered, then biological survival was still higher than apparent survival, but fell to 96.9%. In 2001 Amstrup concluded that the South Beaufort Sea population was increasing and the current hunting quotas insured a growing population.
But when one looks at the details objectively, it is not so obvious that water vapor feedback in the context of long-term climate change is positive. Remember, its not the difference between warmer tropical air masses and cooler high-latitude air masses that will determine water vapor feedback?? its how those air masses will each change over time in response to more carbon dioxide. Anything that alters precipitation processes during that process can cause either positive or negative water vapor feedback.
A whopping 45 studies have examined the effects of CO2 enrichment on the garden tomato (lycopersicon eculentum). On average, garden tomatoes gain 32.
because they may see it as a licence to engage in premarital sex,"
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So the nonzero Feynman propagator at space-like separations isn't a consequence of some "action at a distance"; instead, it is a result of a mutual contact of the two "regions" in the past. In the same way, the nonzero value of the quantum field isn't a prerequisite of a nonlocal behavior, either. Assume that \(x^0\lt y^0\) and the measurement of \(\Phi(x)\) makes some impact on the properties of the field around the other point, \(\Phi(y)\), which is space-like-separated.
Currently the weather pattern dominating Central Europe is bringing unusually cold air over the continent, and early this morning regions in a number of countries were hit by ground surface frost.
President Obama, supported by the Environmental Protection Agency, is seeking to deprive America of the use of its enormous reserves of coal in coal-fired plants that produce the electricity on which the economy and all life in America depends.
Heres Junk Science on Judicial arrogance and misconduct and why the constitution should be inviolable, particularly against the whims of modern law school grads and their faculties.
Antarctica's climate has never been stable, and there have many significant changes in the past few thousand years, indeed the past few hundred as well. Proxy indicators from ice cores show abrupt alterations in atmospheric circulation and temperature. One of the most dramatic changes was the intensification of the circumpolar westerly winds between 6000 and 5000 years ago and between 1200 and 1000 years ago.
While the environmental extremists and utility and oil companies benefit, the public will get harmed by a massive energy tax that will cut jobs, reduce personal income, and have a disproportionate impact on the poor.
Outflow (water usage) has greatly increased over the last few decades due to massive population increases in Phoenix, Las Vegas and Southern California not to mention the large and ever increasing amount of water being used by the biofuels industry. (It has been estimated by the University of Twente in The Netherlands that the manufacture of one liter of biodiesel requires 14,000 liters of water).
Third, the satellites that measure the worlds temperature all say that the warming trend ended in 2001, that 1998 was the warmest recent year, and that the temperature has dropped about 0.6C in the last year (to the temperature of 1980).
It is possible that the green alarmists may be correct that this recent drought and famine is exacerbated by man's emissions of greenhouse gases. But what is certain is that these same alarmists pushed a treaty which is causing death.
With respect to global warming it seems to be a paradox that this year sea ice in the Southern Ocean has reached the highest extent in the last decades. It was only in the mid 1970s that a similar sea ice extent had been observed .
Note: Original graphs had instrumental temperatures superimposed on top of proxy reconstruction during 20th century period. The instrumental data was removed and a reconstruction of the proxy reconstruction was done in order to make them visible - our re-do is close enough for NASA/GISS government work. ;-)
"Matthew has already set a number of records and global warming is giving it a boost," Joe Romm, ThinkProgress' climate editor, wrote.
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Over the years, businesses and individuals have "bought into" this high-rate system by embracing these grants of special tax relief. The result is an economically destructive, intrusive tax regime, plus a tremendous transfer of power to the federal government. As the Kemp Commission on tax reform found, "The history of our tax code, in economic terms, mirrors the course of most addictions: advancing dependence, diminished returns and deteriorating health of the afflicted."
The four researchers' reconstructed record of intense hurricanes revealed that the frequency of these "high-magnitude" events "peaked near 6 storms per century between 2800 and 2300 years ago." Thereafter, it suggests that they were "relatively rare" with "about 0-3 storms per century occurring between 1900 and 1600 years ago," after which they state that these super-storms exhibited a marked decline , which "began around 600 years ago" and has persisted through the present with "below average frequency over the last 150 years when compared to the preceding five millennia."
Electric cars are expected to need a replacement battery. Once the emissions from producing the second battery are added in, the total CO 2 from producing an electric car rises. Disposal alsodoubles the emissions because of the energy consumed in recovering and recycling metals in the battery.
The blaze, which can be seen and smelled from miles away, involves a large pile of wood chippings
Musk's claim is highly misleading. True, the International Energy Agency in 2014 estimated that total global subsidies for motor vehicle fuels were $550 billion annually. However, most of that goes to keeping fuel prices low in countries with nationalized oil companies like Saudi Arabia, which recently raised gasoline prices by 50 percent in January to 90 cents a gallon.
A recent review of sea level change is provided by Morner (2012), including analysis of satellite data. He writes that the raw data from the TOPEX/POSEIDON sea-level satellites, which operated from 1993-2000, show a slight uptrend in sea level, but if the distorting effects of the Great El Nio Southern Oscillation of 1997/1998 are excluded the sea-level trend is zero. The GRACE gravitational-anomaly satellite data shows that sea level fell slightly from 2002-2007.
IPCC Fourth Report (2007), Summary for Policy Makers, p.7-8. Sea levels will rise by 59cm by the year 2100 (93 years-times). This is 6.3mm per year. Error to date is 373%
But because the ABC is about 20 years behind in the real news on Global Warming, Clark and Dawe work with the disadvantage of being ABC viewers, and so when the Liberal Party disintegrated over the Emissions Trading Schememost everyone on the ABC had no idea why it was happening. This is a real handicap for comedians, since to be funny, you have to be one step ahead of the audience.
Nighttime marine air temp (NMAT) differences (Hadley Center)= approx. zero
In 1904, Mackinder had made the grandiose pronouncement: "Who rules East Europe commands the Heartland; who rules the Heartland commands the World Island; who rules the World Island commands the World." The Cold War was to prove Mackinder wrong and Spykman right: For 50 years, the Soviet Heartland did rule Eastern Europe; if it fails to command the world, it's because it failed to rule what really matters, i.e., the Rimland.