Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
In April, researchers from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that forests in northern regions those north of the line of latitude that runs through southern Cuba will warm surface temperatures by an estimated 10 degrees Fahrenheit by the year 2100.
He begins by a clear universal explanation of the mechanism of natural selection and evolution. Societies and cultures are claimed to compete in similar ways but Pinker says that this is at most a metaphor because societies and groups in general fail to obey three key conditions of the classical evolution theory:
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Vice President Clyde Wayne Crews, Jr. on why the U.S. is right not to yield control.
The second pillar of science is that by its very nature, science is impersonal. There is no "us', there is no "them'. There is only the quest. However, in the entire murky non-scientific global warming episode, if anyone was a sceptic he was labelled as one of "them'. At the very apex, before his humiliating retraction, Pachauri had dismissed a report by Indian scientists on glaciers as "voodoo science".
The overall trend declines to 0.081 C/decade (or a total rise of 0.486 C).
Its important to realize that these are shown on a per molecule basis. Because water vapor (bottom bar of the figure) is much more plentiful in the atmosphere than any of the others, H 2 O absorbs vastly more energy and is by far the most important greenhouse gas. On any given day, H 2 O is a percent or two of the atmosphere; we call that humidity.
The much-vaunted treaty creates a complicated and unenforceable system of international targets for carbon emissions reduction, based on measurements taken in 1990. Critics of the American president have condemned him for failing to sign it, conveniently forgetting that the Senate rejected it 95 to 0 in 1997, a margin that reflects broad bipartisan opposition. At the same time, few of the Asian and European signatories are actually on track to meet their goals; those that will meet the targets, such as Britain, can do so because their economies rely less on industry than they once did. Canada and Japan aren't even close to compliance; China and India, whose emissions rates are growing most rapidly, are exempt altogether as "developing" countrieswhich, given their economic strength, is absurd.
Unlike China, Russia is not a rising power. Russian hearts and mind are still up for grabs, though, and there are three reasons why it would be grossly irresponsible to alienate Russia gratuitously. In the short term, Russia's support is critical to solve (militarily or not) the Iranian question; in the middle-term, Russia has considerable leverage over Europe, with much bigger sticks and carrots than America's, and the risk of a creeping Finlandization of Europe is real were America to indulge in brinkmanship; in the long term, the West would have nothing to gain were Russia, against its best interest, to upgrade its relations to the SCO from the tactical to the strategic level.
Reason seems to be winning the day now, but a multi-billion dollar political adventure wont be going away anytime soon.
Admittedly, CEI's ad did not mention that Davis's ROC encompasses about 70% of the total Antarctic ice sheet area, which he refers to as the "grounded ice-sheet interior." His ROC does not include interior regions that are within 8.4 degrees latitude of the pole (the satellites can't see there). However, Davis suspects that these near-polar regions are also gaining mass and thus suggests that his calculation of net gain is a "conservative estimate." He notes that, "These results are consistent with ice-core evidence, though sparse, for increasing accumulation in East Antarctica during the decades preceding our observational time period."
One can think of A1F1 being close to a "do nothing" scenario on CO2, what is often called a Richer but Warmer scenario. The B1 scenario represents fairly large interventions in Co2 use and investments in energy technologies, with lower CO2 concentrations and as a result lower but still positive GDP growth (it takes only a small change in GDP growth to result in large changes in GDP 80 years hence -- the miracle of compounding). This is the cooler but poorer scenario. I know the Left has a fantasy that climate legislation is somehow an economic engine, but most economists on this reality plane achnowlege a tradeoff between CO2 intervention and economic growth.
It's time to give America's forest management and fire control policies a thorough review and revision, before we lose more habitats, wildlife, homes, and human lives. And while we're at it, let's end this insane obsession with manmade climate Armageddon.
A decade into his tenure, Gingrich was able to seize on and exploit a wave of populism triggered by a proposed 25 percent pay raise for members of Congress, judges, and top executive officials a raise, ironically, Gingrich himself supported. The move ignited a broad national anger, empowering such diverse figures as Ralph Nader, Pat Buchanan, and, later, H. Ross Perot, and solidifying talk radio under Rush Limbaugh as a political phenomenon.
One should not ignore the elephant in the room. Our CO2 graph shows one elephant: the failure of CO2 concentration over the past decade to follow the high trajectory projected by the IPCC on the basis of global emissions similar to todays. As far as we can discover, no one but SPPI has pointed out this phenomenon. Our temperature graph shows another elephant: the 30-year warming trend long enough to matter is again well below what the IPCCs methods would project. If either situation changes, followers of our monthly graphs will be among the first to know. As they say at Fox News, We report: you decide.
Tragedy struck Niger, the former French colony of West Africa, over the summer. Millions were at risk of starvation. Political corruption, drought and poverty were the main causes for the lack of food, but over this past year West Africa has also been ravaged by a plague of locusts.
Rosarno was a war among the poor: on the one hand cerano poor Italian, dallaltro cerano poor Africans. They lost all but lintellighenzia culture of our country decided that blacks are right and that the citizens of Rosarno are racist and xenophobic. Lhanno lhanno said and written a p all but the Ndrangheta, the only organization that has decided to take the side of Rosarno. Others can not be on the side of Rosarno Rosarno is because they think that the Ndrangheta. Why think only of those 300 affiliates criminals, certainly not representative of the other 15,700 Rosarnesi honest and healthy.
Matt Melchiorre: But what the Germans don't have are rigid teachers' unions that prevent good teachers from being rewarded and bad teachers from getting fired. The Germans also don't rely on organized labor in education to support their government, as Mr. Obama does. This line must have been a joke. Mr. Obama will never bite the hand that feeds.
In Part 3, I??ll show you some hardly ever seen before solar studies that come about as close to a ???smoking gun?? for climate change you??ll ever see and suggest a mechanism for how the missing linkage between the sun and earth is likely responsible for the ???apparent?? climate shifts we see.
Earlier we added this to the list , now here is the description of the excuse. Basically what they are saying is that natural climate variability has overtaken the posited powerful effects of CO2 on climate.
5. His most recent television appearance was with me on the syndicated PBS show Uncommon Knowledge (www.uncommonknowledge.org).
Mr. Kerwick revisits his original thesis and explains why it is important to have an historical perspective. Slavery throughout history is not about race, but culture and other things, and it still exists.
the GCMs fail to reproduce the major decadal and multidecadal oscillations found in the global surface temperature record from 1850 to 2011. On the contrary, the proposed harmonic model (which herein uses cycles with 9.1, 1010.5, 2021, 6062 year periods) is found to well reconstruct the observed climate oscillations from 1850 to 2011, and it is shown to be able to forecast the climate oscillations from 1950 to 2011 using the data covering the period 18501950, and vice versa.
President Obama addresses employees of General Electric's Waukesha Gas Engines facility in Waukesha, Wisconsin, January 30, 2014.
"Some people say that because the Soviet people have to stand in line, it gives them time to reflect and become philosophical."
But I think the rest of us understand that American tort law, which allows juries to make multi-million dollar judgements based on emotions and empathy rather than facts and true liability, has at least a share of the blame. Not just the settlements, but the steps doctors go through to try to protect themselves from frivolous suits down the road. Here are two interesting stories along these lines. The first from Carpe Diem :
If there was no carbon dioxide, it would be impossible for plants to grow, we would rapidly run out of food and life on this planet would cease to exist.
Under this scenario, a piece of paper, from Ottawa or Oslo, committing the United States to reductions in greenhouse gasesthe way the Europeans want them reducedwould face a President Bush in his first day in office, with environmentalists clamoring for him to prove his mettle by agreeing to it.
Says Milbank, "Argument-by-anecdote isn't working."
Read here . Bozo climate predictions appear to be the IPCC's raison d'tre, which they definitely excel at. The latest bozo climate prediction found to be erroneous is that global warming, due to human CO2 emission increases, will cause more precipitation, thus causing more floods of greater frequency and intensity. Fortunately for the world, the IPCC is wrong again.
Rogers, B.M., Randerson, J.T. and Bonan, G.B. 2013. High-latitude cooling associated with landscape changes from North American boreal forest fires. Biogeosciences 10: 699-718.
A sound energy policy will permit us to harness energy from areas both offshore and in Alaska. It will ensure the rapid expansion of nuclear energy. It will not force us to subsidize unproductive sources of power, but rather expand research and development toward discovering genuine alternative energy solutions. We need to decouple our energy policy away from the global warming issue, and instead focus instead on ensuring we have enough energy to meet our needs and thereby continue to be a source of innovation and prosperity for the rest of the world.
Wind Forecast Order Jeopardizes Industry, Tata Power Says
Consider, as a sign of the party's decadence, how quickly Bob Corker, a card-carrying member of the Republican Party elite the center-right chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee caved in to this horribly miscast party standard-bearer. Trump's campaign has been filled with statements whose ignorance and bombast have appalled the establishment. Then a ballyhooed foreign policy speech in late April was widely panned by experts across the foreign policy spectrum. ("A very odd mishmash"; "strident rhetoric masked a lack of depth.") Corker's response? He praised "the broadness, the vision" of the speech.
The other great tourism business in Australia is the skiing industry. The industry is steadily investing in snow making equipment. Maybe it really needs to. Global warming creates a range of basic problems for Australias 11,500 square kilometre alpine region, a tiny 0.15 per cent of the continent. The most obvious effect of rising temperatures is snow that melts more quickly, is spread thinner, and a snow line that moves higher up the mountain. A complication is rainfall. Under climate change, the winter rain systems are expected to lessen so the chance of snow even if it is cold enough drops off. There may be some solace as storms increase, bearing the chance of a big snow dump.
When pressing for Vermont Yankee to be closed, Gov. Shumlin described the possibility of closing the plant as giving a billion dollar bonanza to Vermont. What on earth was he thinking? Theres no billion-dollar bonanza. Theres a drop-off in employment, a killing of the local towns, and general misery.
It is in the general interest of business to preserve an open and competitive marketplace, and to limit tax and regulatory burdens. However, it is often in the special interest of particular firms to expand the size and scope of government in order to collect political "rents" -- windfall profits created by market-rigging subsidies, preferences, or mandates.
In contrast, tropical temperature reconstructions, only available from marine records, show that tropical Atlantic, Pacific, Indian Ocean SSTs exhibit a progressive warming from the beginning of the current interglacial onwards (Rimbu et al., 2004; Stott et al., 2004), possibly a reflection of annual mean insolation change (Figure 6.5).
A committee selected by Norway's socialist legislature has awarded the Nobel Peace Prize to Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
The 2014/15 El Nio Part 9 Kevin Trenberth is Looking Forward to Another Big Jump
The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is the driving force behind the global warming hoax. It is holding a climate change summit on September 23. Guess who won't be attending? Chinese president Xi Jinping, India's prime minister, Narenda Modi, and for good measure, Germany's chancellor, Angela Merkel. Others whose leaders will not be attending include Canada, Japan, and Russia.
As initially announced on Climate Science where a discount is available (and as another plug for our book! :-)) The second edition of our book Human Impacts on Weather and Climate has appeared. There is both a hardback and a paperback version.
Very few people disagree with the basic fact that the greenhouse gas CO 2 warms the climate, but without some kind of positive feedback mechanism, it doesnt add very much: around 1C-1.2C per doubling of CO 2 . (See this discussion on no-feedback sensitivity). The global warming crisis emerged from a belief that small rises in CO 2 concentrations result in large knock-on effects, or strong positive feedbacks. These remain conjectural, as the forcings and feedbacks are poorly understood. Just how much of an effect does a rise in CO 2 have a little, or a lot? Hence the importance of new and better studies in the area of climate science dealing with attribution.
The representation of clouds is one of the main weaknesses of current climate models . In particular, the parameterization of boundary layer stratus clouds has proved to be very difficult and has been a major area of research in the last decade. These clouds have a very weak greenhouse effect, but strongly reflect incoming shortwave radiation, thus modulating the albedo of the Earth. Bony and Dufresne (2005) have shown that the simulation of marine low level clouds is a large source of uncertainty in tropical cloud feedbacks and of climate sensitivity, suggesting that the simulation of tropical responses to different forcings will strongly depend on the parameterization of these clouds, and that results need to be tested using different cloud schemes.
"Two-Point-Eight-Trillion-Anything Is Scary"
1993-2007: Did sea levels off the US East coast actually FALL?
Western US Hit Hard By Global Warming
Whilst agnotology can be useful in many situations where old wives tales, myths, and other incorrect ideas exist, the value of using agnotology in politically-charged discussions such as climate change is questionable. Since the definition of misinformation lies in the eye of the advocate of a particular viewpoint, there is a danger that agnotology may serve not to enhance discussion or learning but rather to stifle debate and silence critics
The Courier-Mail Monday 6 May 1940
New paper: investigating the cosmic ray link
I am ashamed to be Norwegian today. The Norwegian Nobel Committee chose to give the prize to a shyster and a bureaucratic ministry of truth. I am not sure if I am more furious or more ashamed.
Dr. Martin Hertzberg, Ph,D, co-author of Slaying the Sky DragonDeath of the Greenhouse Gas Theory, summed it up neatly, pointing outthat water vapor in the Earths atmosphere is a primary factor affecting climate long term and weather short term.
Non-Existent Cold Arctic Air Makes Winter Cold
Solar radiation also evaporates water from the oceans and provides the energy for rain, winds and storms. Much of this moisture falls as useful rain when the winds penetrate land masses. Wind turbines create artificial obstacles to the wind, reducing its velocity and thus tending to create more rain near the coast and rain shadows behind the turbine walls. And they chop up many birds and bats. Again, green energy harms the biosphere.
A Yiddish proverb states ''a half truth is a whole lie''. By withholding vital information, it's possible to lead you towards the opposite conclusion to the one you would get from considering the full picture. In Bob Carter's opinion piece on this page yesterday, this technique of cherry-picking half-truths is on full display, with frequent examples of statements that distort climate science.
the Obama administration built support, including from China and Russia, for a
The empirical evidence is so overwhelming that even the vast majority of alarmist climate scientists (over 97%) agree that the predicted accelerating global warming has been non-existent over the last 15 years.
In the lower 48 states there have been about ten extreme megafires, which I define as burning more than 1 million acres. Eight of these occurred during cooler than average decades. These data suggest that extremely large megafires were 4-times more common before 1940 (back when carbon dioxide concentrations were lower than 310 ppmv). What these graphs suggest is that we cannot reasonably say that anthropogenic global warming causes extremely large wildfires.
1) admit that mean global temperatures have not risen since 1997 and that the warming trend has stalled
Carlin refers to a "climate-industrial complex" patterned after a "military-industrial complex" term that President Eisenhower warned against in his 1961 farewell address.
I'm suspicious of anybody who does a lot of loud, public fretting. Hoodwinking your fellow citizens by means of dreads and frights has been going on since Paleolithic times. Politicians on the subject of global warming are no different than tribal wizards on the subject of lunar eclipses.
This story appeared in the Boston Globe, May 20, 2003, page C9.
"This is hard to explain with our current models" An exploded star some 3.8 billion light-years away is forcing scientists to overhaul much of what they thought they knew about gamma-ray bursts - intense blasts of radiation triggered, in this case, by a star tens of times more massive than the sun that exhausted its nuclear fuel, exploded, then collapsed to form a black hole. "Some of our theories are just going down the drain," said Charles Dermer, an astrophysicist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico... h/t Paul B.
7) It is claimed that the current ice loss in the Antarctic is enough to raise global sea levels by 0.45 millimetres each year, but much of this rise has already been occurring throughout the last century.
When the secondary cosmic rays interact in the monitor, (actually in lead surrounding the counters) they cause nuclear disintegrations, or stars. These stars are composed of charged fragments and neutrons typically in the energy range of tens to hundreds of MeV (million electron-volts), even up to GeV energies. As a result of these high energy nuclear interactions, there will be more secondary fragments generated than incident particles and hence there is a multiplier effect for the counters. The neutrons are moderated and then counted using Boron tri-fluoride (BF3) proportional counters which are efficient thermal neutron detectors; hence the name neutron monitor.
FactCheck: Scientists also say that the ice sheet is melting at the ocean's edge .
Jobs Picture Gets Even Worse as Rate Swells to 9.2%:
Democratic Party's brand with the antiwar constituency that gave George McGovern the nomination 35 years earlier. Rather than overcompensating for this stereotype with a me-too
The platform states climate change is an "urgent and severe threat" and calls for an 80 percent cut in carbon-dioxide emissions below 2005 levels by 2050 and getting 50 percent of the nation's electric power from "clean energy sources" by 2025. The platform also adopted a provision calling for the Department of Justice to investigate companies for skeptical statements they've made concerning the causes and consequences of climate change.
Microfinance loans empower their customers to invest, grow, and be productive, all of which contribute to diminishing poverty within communities.
Because Exponent had also purported to justify their statistical analyses without consideration of timing as a sort of preliminary gatekeeping,Kessler scored some points as to why they didnt do the same thing with their analysis of differences in variability. In my opinion, this was a better rhetorical than analytic point. I dont have any issue with Exponent analysing variability; only that they didnt do enough analysis or that their analysis wasnt insightful enough.
As this is being written, the State Department just released a report that would clear the way for the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline from Canada after a 5-year delay by the Obama Administration. Pipelines are the safest way to transport oil and natural gas. If the U.S. cannot gain access to the oil, it will go to China and other nations.
The United Nations undersecretary for planning is following in the footsteps of his comrades Stalin, who had 5-year plans, and Hitler, who had 4-year plans. His planning includes the future developments in science. As the AFP reveals, Robert Orr of the U.N. has planned that the next IPCC climate report will be more catastrophic than ever before.
John opened his discussion with a statement that there has been a (reported) rising global temperature trend since 1975, while in fact broad agreement exists that there has been no warming for at least a decade. Phil Jones has stated that global temperatures have been flat for 17 years.
while Antarctic Sea Ice Extent has remained above the ???normal?? range for much of the last two months:
After all, isn't serious scrutiny a prerequisite for all trusted science?
The condensate is pumped back to the boiler for reuse and the cooling water is returned to the river.
> >> >>My questions are: Who would be able to do a good job on this
Climate change will be another factor adding to the stress (WWF, 2005).
This week I spoke to Pielke by phone. Asked for his initial reaction to the ThinkProgress e-mail...
Environmentalists are ecstatic with the announcement, but New England fishermen aren't very happy about losing fisheries worth $50 million to their bottom-line, reports The Washington Post.
Based on California temperature data from the National Climatic Data Center and runoff data from the California Department of Water Resources.
For a more detailed examination of the CEIP, see my Clean Energy Incentive Program: New Unlawful Element in EPA's Power Plant Rule?
In Massachustts v. EPA, the 5-4majority argued:(1) The Clean Air Act (CAA) defines air pollutant as any airborne substance whatsoever; (2) the EPA has a mandatory duty to regulate air pollutants emitted by automobiles if the associated air pollution may reasonably be anticipated to endanger public health and welfare; and (3) welfare effectsincludechanges in weather and climate. Given these premises, the Court basically left the EPAone way to avoid regulating GHGs: Cancel its membership in the self-anointed scientific consensus the climate alarm movement that the agency had spent years promoting and leading.No chance of that happening.