Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
In early 2013, the president announced he would "act" on climate because Congress had failed to pass a cap-and-trade bill. And in 2015, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized a controversial climate policy with the innocuously named Clean Power Plan, which is backstopped by a cap-and-trade scheme. Thus, the president used congressional inaction as a justification to impose his climate policy through executive means. Obama's attempt to legislate from the White House makes a mockery of the separation of powers established by the Constitution.
The Chinese governments goals were to have 500,000 electric vehicles on the road by 2011 (accounting for 5 percent of total vehicle sales) and 5 million on the road by 2020. But, as the authors point out, in mid-2013, China had only about 40,000 electric vehicles on the road, more than 80 percent of which were in public fleet vehicles, such as taxis and buses.
Pachauri blamed WG2 co-chairs, Martin Parry (now of the Grantham Institute) and Osvaldo Canziani for failing to pick up the error.
With the help of this adjustment, they manage to get the rate of sea level rise, according to their figures, up from 2.8mm/yr to 3.1mm/yr, since 1993. So clearly this is not the small adjustment they claim, as it is more than 10% of the change!
The GHG standards will starta regulatory chain reaction with potentially devastating economic impacts. The newstandardsare the regulatory complement to the endangerment proposal EPA issued on April 17.As explained here and here ,once EPA and DOTfinalize the Fuel economy/GHG emission standards, an estimated 1.2 million previously unregulatedbuildings and facilitieswillqualify as??major stationary sources?? of carbon dioxide under the Clean Air Act??s Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) pre-construction permitting program.Thousands of small- to mid-size firmscould be compelled to obtainPSD permits in order to build or modify such ???major stationary sources??as office buildings, enclosed malls, big box stores, and commercial restaurants.
Actually, they did. Allow me to introduce readers to Piers Corbyn, meteorologist and brother of my old chum, bearded leftie MP Jeremy. Piers Corbyn works in an undistinguished office in Borough High Street. He has no telescope or supercomputer. Armed only with a laptop, huge quantities of publicly available data and a first-class degree in astrophysics, he gets it right again and again.
Some critics have questioned the rationale for spending research money on an electric car in a poor agrarian country with an ailing public healthcare system, and where electricity outages are the norm. One cartoon showed the Kiira being pushed by two men apparently because there was no electricity to charge it.
Our letter never once makes reference to individuals, be they scientists or bloggers, instead suggested an "investigation of corporations and other organizations" such as oil and coal lobby groups. We are not calling for contrarian scientists or bloggers to be investigated for expressing their beliefs about climate change. Freedom of speech and freedom of scientific exploration are critical rights that should always be respected. We wish to apologize to any scientist or blogger who mistakenly concluded that we were calling for an investigation into their activities.
October 20, 2015 | Commentary on Climate Change, Energy Policy, Political Thought
More on the Seas that are not rising , or warming. Scientists have confirmed that they are still wet, they think.
Cut allowable NOx emissions by 67 percent, from current emissions of 5 million tons to 2.1 million tons in 2008, and to 1.7 million tons in 2018.
Where the threat is not a direct one, the President spoke of mobilizing partners and of collective action, both of which are sound, if difficult objectives. That said, the absence of such conditions should not hamper action worth doing. For instance, if we had information on where and how the young Nigerian girls kidnapped by Boko Haram were being held and the capability to carry out their rescue, would we wait on some kind of coalition to form in order to attempt it? The point is, there are "non-core" interests worth pursuing unilaterally and we should understand that.
A Danish lady who had been in the audience at the meeting broken up by the Nazi thugs said that her father had told her that such displays had been a feature of Copenhagen during the German occupation. She, too, was shaken and saddened by the Hitler-Jugend?s attempted disruption of what we had all hoped was now the unchallengeable right of free speech.
Plagiarism is the appropriation of another persons ideas, processes, results, or words without giving appropriate credit.
An automobile's carbon footprint is proportional to vehicle weight, so the new regulation will make larger cars more expensivework trucks will cost a lot more for blue collar Americans in the country's heartland. But that's of little concern to Prius-driving coastal urbanites.
The Labour leader said the UK had repeated the same mistakes in post-conflict planning for Libya as were made in Iraq and the current refugee situation should have been anticipated.
In summary, ENSO is a coupled ocean-atmosphere process and its effects on Global Surface Temperatures are not represented by an ENSO index. ENSO indices cannot account for the impacts of the warm water released by an El Nio event, returned to the West Pacific and redistributed from there. Therefore, any scientific papers that attempt to determine manmade global warming by removing the linear effects of ENSO with a scaled and lagged ENSO index and subtracting it from global surface temperatures are fatally flawed. Papers that make this error-filled, misleading effort include:
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German consumers already complain about having to pay the second-highest electricity prices in Europe.??
I'll try to get a look at the presentations when I get a minute. In the meantime, it's remarkable to compare the House Committee's take on Oxburgh with Joe Farman's from the previous post.
WSJ Editorial Suggests There Should Be No Social Cost Of Carbon. In an editorial, The Wall Street Journal criticized the Obama administration for raising the social cost of carbon, or the estimate of the damages caused by emitting a ton of carbon dioxide in one year, which is used by regulatory agencies to calculate the benefit of reducing carbon emissions.The Journal suggested that the social cost of carbon should be $0, approvingly citing the previous lack of a social cost for carbon, adding that ?Congress has never legislated that there are social costs to carbon emissions? and claiming that assigning such as cost is an ?inventio? to ?ri the rule-making?:
The memo points out that even the Cuban ruling elite leave Cuba when they need medical care. Fidel Castro, for example, brought in a Spanish doctor during his health crisis in 2006. The vice-minister of health, Abelardo Ramirez, went to France for gastric cancer surgery.
Instead of saying the password, the Australian could be mocking the gatekeepers.
The Senate votes to override the FCC and make media ownership regulations more strict.
* The climate crisis dogma-premised "sustainable energy" fetish has caused disastrous government policies in the U.S. and abroad, particularly in Europe where failures have produced economic distress.
global CO2 concentration and sea-level change are also supplied. While these
2) An increase or decrease in greenhouse gases such as water vapour or carbon dioxide. (However, Miscolczi thinks an increase in co2 will cause a decrease in water vapour to re-equilibriate the system)
According to the Washington Post , a Study Says Polar Bears Could Face Extinction. But our scientific roundup of two years ago runs counter to that notion, and still pertains today. For those of you who missed it, and that apparently includes Post staff writer Juliet Eilperin, we offer it again.
"Oil prices hovered near $103 a barrel Wednesday in Asia as traders mulled whether a weakening dollar could help push crude back to 2 1/2-year highs."
Approximately 42,100 jobs across the United States;
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In doing so, Gillett and colleagues concluded that the temperature rise over the course of the 21st century is probably going to be considerably less than their raw climate model projections suggest. In fact, they write in their paper titled Improved constraints on 21st-century warming derived using 160 years of temperature observations that:
Hansen told the New York Times that the world would likely be under ocean water within decades, not centuries.
The witnesses were, however, mere support for the re-launch of the Lieberman-McCain Climate Stewardship Act, which attempts to impose Kyoto-like policies on America. The bill was defeated 53-44 in the Senate last year, having reached the floor only as part of a failed compromise aimed at securing passage of the comprehensive energy bill.
On its face, the current situation might seem to promise no real avenue of escape from the tragic history that weighs upon this conflict. Tensions in the area are high. The surge in U.S. popularity occasioned by the election of Barack Obama is largely spent. Turkey, one of Israel's few friends in the Middle East, appears to be turning eastward in its drive for geopolitical influence, a move accelerated by continued confrontations involving Israel's interdiction of "relief" supplies bound for Gaza.
As weve illustrated and discussed in this post, looking at the three factors that make up the TOA energy imbalance, there is no agreement among the climate models on the values of past, present and future outgoing shortwave and longwave radiation. As a result, there is no agreement about:
"now you're seeing Obama realizing that he's menaced by this energy issue"
So far this Winter Season (December 1st through January 26th) of 2013-2014, International Falls ranks as the 3rd coldest on record.
Despite their claims otherwise, As You Sow's tactics are designed to circumvent the historical bane of environmental activism scientific and economic debate. Its tactics work best against businesses that are hypersensitive about their brands being involved in any sort of controversy. But therein lies the solution to the problem.
The Clean Air Act was, as I have said so many timesmisnamedit is really intended to be the Safe Air Act, because, even in Cambridge Mass there is no way to produce clean air. The air always has pollutants in it, and it is not sterile and it is not free of allergens or the many chemicals and molecules that have been on this earth for the eons. We live in a soup.
"Addressing cybersecurity is not a question of how best to regulate businesses that are victims of cyber-attacks, but a question of how best to put market mechanisms into Internet and information technology operations to create incentives for improved security."
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Thus, just by simple logic, this means that the idea that once rainforest is gone, it is gone forever is obviously a myth. If people have been in the forests for centuries, clearing huge areas for agriculture and other purposes, and now it's hard to even find evidence of their civilization, the rainforest obviously grows back quite well. Travel to Mexico, for instance, and see ancient Mayan ruins that have only recently been discovered because entire cities have been swallowed up by the reforested jungle, and this will be more than clear.
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Different methods exist for calculating heat units depending on a) the crop or biological organism of interest and b) the whim or personal preference of the researcher. The calculation method most commonly used throughout the U.S. for determining heat unit accumulation relative to corn phenology is the formula first suggested by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in 1969 and labeled as the Modified Growing Degree Day formula in 1971.
In the East, a region lacking a security regime analogous to NATO, the lack of clarity of the law of the sea regarding such issues as military and intelligence-gathering activities in the EEZs of other countries, and the competing claims for territorial waters and seabeds, has become a game increasingly fraught with dangers. The best known example is the Spratly Islands, one hundred or so islands scattered over an area the size of France, said to hold more oil than Kuwait, and situated right in the middle of one of the busiest sea lanes, used by 300 ships a day. The Islands are claimed in part or totality by no fewer than 17 countries, and five of them (including China) actually have small military forces on these otherwise uninhabited islands.
Given the incredible proliferation of lawsuits in this country, for all its faults, the workers comp system is probably better than the alternative. The article cited above has more on the history of workers comp as well as a nifty table of state by state benefits and requirements. As with almost any governmental practice in this nifty Federalist system we have -- small business owners in multiple states, Beware. Every state does it differently.
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Last week we talked about Clouds and some climate guys who cant decide if clouds are a forcer or an inhibitor.
Climatologist Dr. Tim Ball accused NASAs Schmidt of climate deception: Schmidt knows, after all his years with participating in the creation and naming of the RealClimate.org web site, that it is all about the headline.
Therefore carbon dioxide plays no part in creating smog.Smog consists of ash particles, unburnt fuels and noxious gases produced by the inefficient combustion of anything, usually in open fires or obsolete boilers engines or smelters with no pollution control equipment. Wind-blown dust, bush and forest fires, blue haze from forests and drifting volcanic ash add to the smog.
More seriously speaking, I accept, with gratitude, modest donations to support The (other) Cause. The address can also serve as a digital signature to ward off those identity thefts which are part of climate scientists' repertoire of tricks these days.
Jan vejnar: basic ignorance about Czech realities
Not to be outdone, the World Bank recently unveiled a "Strategic Framework" for global warming and development that calls for "unprecedented global cooperation" for the "transfer of finance and technology from developed to developing countries." The Bank established a Carbon Finance Unit and several Carbon Investment Funds to distribute climate change mitigation aid. There are major problems with this approach to development. For starters, it is unlikely that Western bureaucrats can create a green energy infrastructure in developing countries. The history of development assistance is littered with abandoned projects backed by the best of intentions. Already there is evidence that climate aid is more of the same.
17. There is one final reason why Pachauri is a disaster as chairman of the IPCC. He, himself, has acknowledged that the process is rigged. Nevertheless, he continues to pretend otherwise.
Finally, what is the purpose of all of this? Answer is, to try to emulate a simple climate model projection. I do not know if all climate models follow the same routines to get from start to finish, whether they calculate year by year, similar to this example, or if the whole lot goes into a series of matrixes that are solved one after another.
For though economic betterment was their banner, there is little doubt that Gorbachev and his supporters first set out to right moral, rather than economic, wrongs. Most of what they said publicly in the early days of perestroika now seems no more than an expression of their anguish over the spiritual decline and corrosive effects of the Stalinist past. It was the beginning of a desperate search for answers to the big questions with which every great revolution starts: What is a good, dignified life? What constitutes a just social and economic order? What is a decent and legitimate state? What should such a state's relationship with civil society be?
When we look at the temperature profile of the air, we see a cold lower level, and a nice about zero layer a bit above 40 km (and above the max ozone). What this says to me is that we have a very simple existence proof that the CO2 in the troposphere is rather irrelevant. Convection takes the heat right past it, up to that stratosphere level, where it is then radiated at high altitude.
1989 was the year that sunlight fell on the blond-haired girl. That's something worth celebrating for far longer than a week, or a month, or even a year.
Once the voting was done and Waxman was over the gall of minority leaders Boehner wanting to expose the detail of his cap and bend-over bill, The Goreacle appeared and Al made his official statement and immediately pushed the Senate to pass the bill . Al is worried that because Exxon has spent $9.3 million lobbying congress that his own $300 million might not be enough.
But that doesn't seem likely to help the Democrats in 2016 if Hillary Clinton should drop out or if her most recently revealed shenanigans the boodle from foreign potentates, the $200,000 university speeches, the home-brew email system should render her unelectable.
While it's tempting to dismiss such drivel as the inevitable product of a bloated, wasteful, out-of-touch, but ultimately powerless, bureaucracy, the UN's latest sustainable development agenda warrants serious attention. The UN doesn't operate in a vacuum; it has ties to a vast network of global organizations both governmental and nongovernmental all of which espouse similar views and all of which work for the adoption of "transformative" policies.
I was intrigued, though, by the comment in the press release that The model shows that it is likely that tornadoes are not occurring with greater frequency, but there is some evidence to suggest that tornadoes are, in fact, getting stronger
One cannot enter a discussion about rainforest loss without talking about its effect on the earth's species. Indeed, with the rainforests thought to be home to at least an estimated half of all species, this is the number one reason advanced as to why we must stop rainforest conversion, and put through an international Biodiversity Treaty that could lock up most of the remaining areas.
Utility MACT is the centerpiece of President Obama's effort to kill coal: Utility MACT is specifically designed to close down existing plants, while the Obama-EPA's greenhouse gas regulations are specifically designed to prevent any new coal plants from being built.
Global Warming Causes Declining Snow Cover
Republican and Democratic office holders and their retinues show a similar presumption to dominate and fewer differences in tastes, habits, opinions, and sources of income among one another than between both and the rest of the country. They think, look, and act as a class. . . . Differences between Bushes, Clintons, and Obamas are of degree, not kind.
David, please indicate where in the documents it shows that Heartland is spreading lies and misinformation.
Most Americans think of energy use in terms of big-ticket items such as gasoline, heating oil, and natural gas. But a great deal of the energy we use is indirect, embedded in the things we buy. Cutting down on indirect energy would produce substantial energy savings and allow Americans to continue to enjoy the lifestyle choices they have made.
Short answer: El Nio and La Nia processes.
Rush Limbaugh read extensively from Codevilla's article on his radio program on Tuesday, and he correctly noted that Republican politicians' position on the edge of the aristocracy makes them extremely insecure and manipulable by the Democrats:
4. Early observations indicate that water market activity in the 2008-09 season has been lower than in 2007-08, with prices being recorded at up to 50% less than the same period last year. This has been attributed to grower concerns about last seasons record high prices and current uncertainty of water resource availability.
Earlier this week, FactCheck.Org published a critique of the Competitive Enterprise Institute's (CEI's) global warming ads. In this press release, CEI responds to FactCheck's allegations.
With many Democrats already on board with Keystone and a push for more support from union leadership, the new Congress may be able to pass it againthis time with a veto-proof majority.
With further testing this hypothesis can be exalted to a law of nature, which in turn can be used to reject other hypotheses not supported by observations and experiments. It is, of course, fundamental that all three major parts of the scientific method is based on sound statistical procedures regarding sampling theory, data representation, significance, error propagation, causality, etc., and should be unbiased and free of advocacy. If any part of the evidence does not support the hypothesis, the hypothesis should be rejected (Churchman, 1948).
The nation seems to be passing through a period in which too many U.S. Senators have been elected without so much as a high school level understanding of what drives the Earths climate and it isnt the 0.038% of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere.
Joel Schwartz (American Enterprise Institute): NRDC uses emissions from 1996 to "predict" ozone levels, smog levels, in the 2050s. So we're already below the emissions of 1996, and emissions continue to drop because of fleet turnover to cleaner vehicles, because power plants are getting cleaner. And most of those emissions are going to be gone even in about 20 years. And in the 2050s there's going to be hardly any pollution in the air. But NRDC assumes we're going to have 1996 emissions levels in 2050.
How diametrically different is then the attitude and phrases of our president, Milo Zeman, who despite a massive wave of outrage in the U.S. and Brussels, and indignation by the pro-American sold "fifth column" formulates the things as they are, uses the right names to call things, and localizes the genuine culprits and causal relationships and who isn't afraid that Europe also includes Russia but not the U.S... and other facts. I respect Zeman for those reasons and I encourage all those who care about the fate of our country and ourselves to loudly express their lasting support against "the American practices of CIA realized not only by the U.S. Ambassador Andrew Schapiro", against the red cards of the traitors from the Prague cafs, and against the policies of the "sycophants in Brussels". He is a directly elected president of ours, so we shouldn't let anyone take him away from us...
A person with poor hygiene celebrates the moppet-exploding 10:10 organization for persuading him not to buy any clothes in 2010 . Just what is it between hippies and soap?
In 1998, Gavin warned us that climate data sets willbe distorted and twisted beyond all usefulness
Lobbyists love cap-and-trade because of its complexity. At every step of the process, there are myriad nooks and crannies into which they can stuff special favors for their corporate clients. Industrial suppliers and users of energy will hire lobbyists to claim that they deserve free permits for some reason or another. And the auction-generated revenue would create a huge money trough coveted by every conceivable special interest and their pricey lobbyists.