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From its opening images, which view Gore only from behind, as if he were some powerful figure about to spin around and reveal his greatness, An Inconvenient Truth lionizes the man more than his cause. The movie means to paint him as a misunderstood prophet, trudging through airports and convention centers bringing the unpopular word of God to the sinful masses.
EARTHS ENERGY IMBALANCE (ABSOLUTE) IN CMIP5 MODELS
An alternative approach would involve developing technology to tackle what should be seen as a practical problem rather than a moral issue.
Consider, for example, the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards, which were a top priority for NRDC during President Obama's first term. The rule costs $10 billion annually and threatens to shutter 17% of the nation's fleet of coal-fired power plants (just as NRDC and EPA intended). Given these costs, you'd expect that the rule would lead to big public health gains, but you'd be wrong. The ridiculous justification for the rule is to protect a putative population of pregnant, subsistence fisherwomen who consume more than 200 pounds of self-caught fish, from exclusively the most polluted bodies of fresh inland water. The average American no doubt would consider this rule to be a waste; to NRDC, it was a policy success.
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Finally they mention sea-level rise . The observed increase in sea-level at our ports is equivalent to the width of my thumbnail every ten years.
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Therefore, we use five models that have more than 10 members of the historical and RCP4.5 simulations to take a closer look at the recent SATg linear trends (Figure 2). Two model ensembles (CNRM-CM5 and CanCM4) exhibit a narrow spread, which means that they may not encompass a sufficient range of natural uctuations. The remaining three ensembles (CSIRO Mk-3.6, HadCM3, and MIROC5) include the observed SATg linear trend for 19912000 (0.26 K per decade) in a 50th percentile, and for 20012010 (0.03 K per decade) in a lower 5075th percentile. The discrepancy appears small, but it becomes larger when we include the latest two years of 20112012 in the estimate. The large spread of more than 0.3 K in the three ensembles suggests that the observed hiatus was due to a large natural fluctuation and/or the GCMs are systematically biased to produce a warmer surface for a particular reason.
More market-oriented strategies, such as emissions trading, have a better track record for cost-effectively reducing emissions. Such programs attempt to mimic real market incentives by allowing companies with high compliance costs to buy emission credits from companies with low compliance costs, thereby directing spending to where it can do the most good. Even emission trading, though, may not come close enough to real markets to achieve the most cost-effective air pollution strategy.
He also wasnt paid more because the Aether didnt exist, his revolutionary concept of spacetime provided the missing structure. As well as Einsteins scientific integrity, world governments were not spending trillions of dollars to prove the existence of the Aether and then tax it.
As the DfT?s last report affirms one reason we have been so unprepared for the past three winters has been the obsession of our government and other authorities with global warming. They kept listening to climate change campaigners warning that Britain will heat up four or five degrees and believed we would never have cold weather again.
The record has actually been broken twice today. The first place to beat the previous record of 37.1C (98.8F), set in Cheltenham in 1990, was Heathrow Airport where the temperature earlier today registered 37.9C (100.2F).
Temperatures have been directly measured for a little over a century. The number of locations at which temperature is taken has gradually increased, reaching something like full coverage only in the last thirty to forty years. It is certain that at many individual stations mankind has caused changes in measured temperature. Mankind caused both warming, due to the urban heat island effects, and cooling, such as by land use changes.
Hey, when you lose the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists . Anyway, given the Doomsday Clock's track record, maybe we should all feel pretty good about the state of the world. The Clock is hardly a precision timepiece. It was created to highlight the dangers either growing or ebbing of the Cold War between United States and Soviet Russia. But the clockmakers, blinded by ideology, got it badly wrong. In 1981, the Clock moved to four minutes from seven, and then to three in 1984 with blame placed on Ronald Reagan's Evil Empire rhetoric and military buildup especially the Strategic Defense Initiative. (It was a worry shared by Watchmen writer Alan Moore, who riffed on the Doomsday Clock in that classic 1980s graphic novel. The above cover image is by artist Dave Gibbons.)
Bao credits his research ideas, analytical work and pleasure of working on this project to his two graduate students, Killingsworth and Hayles, as well as his long-time Chinese collaborators. Bao brought Killingsworth and Hayles to an interior mountainous region in South China in December 2011, where the group succeeded in finding multiple barite layers in a section of rocks dating to 635 million years ago. This discovery formed a large part of their analysis and subsequent publication in PNAS .
Based on simulations provided by mathematical models, climate alarmists generally predict more frequent and more severe floods in response to global warming. In this summary we examine real-world data relative to this claim as it pertains to Asia.
This document is clearly written, up-to-date, and well illustrated with charts and graphs, making it an ideal hand-out or reference for high school and college students looking for an authoritative presentation of the "skeptic" view on climate change.
Lewis Page, Climate change made sea levels fall in 2010 and 2011, The Register, August 20, 2013
If history is any guide, the window of opportunity for action will probably last for two years as the party "out of power" will likely make gains during the interim election. This provides Bush plenty of time, but his political capital must be focused and applied vigorously if the inertia that has deadlocked several important issues is to be moved. A proper prioritizing and elevating of several key items will help the Bush Administration make the case that it is serious about tackling the issue of the environmentand if applied wisely may yet remove this issue as a blot on its legacy for those looking back in the future.
Every bit as troubling as the monument designation itself is the use of the Antiquities Act to bring it about. Originally crafted to protect Native American sites of historical and cultural significance, the Antiquities Act has been used by the Clinton, Bush, and Obama administrations to declare an area a National Monument for environmental reason via executive action, with little if any local input. "There shouldn't be a couple of people sitting around a table in the West Wing deciding this kind of thing," Saving Seafood's Vanasse told the AP.
The EUs plan to regulate the output of carbon dioxide, as part of the effort to combat global warming, has stirred concern in the European aviation industry. Airbus which employs more than 50,000 people across Europe argues the proposals will damage competitiveness at a time of economic weakness, wants the EU to put on hold the extension of the scheme to airlines until a global plan for regulating carbon emissions by airlines can be agreed.
But the political collapse of Republicans at the end of the Bush administration and demographic changes favorable to liberalism made this kind of trimming seem unnecessary to Democrats. In the Obama years, the Democratic Party seemed to be able to move left while enjoying an enduring advantage in presidential politics. In the early months of President Obama's second term, he concentrated on issues such as climate change, same-sex marriage, legalization for illegal immigrants and gun regulation, without much concern for bringing these voters back into the Democratic coalition.
In effect, Team Obama and Waxman are saying, "You had better provide us with bipartisan cover to raise gasoline prices and destroy jobs, or we'll sic EPA on the economy, and won't you be in trouble with your voters then when EPA raises their energy prices and destroy their jobs!" Cap-and-trade Democrats are setting the stage for a political backlash that Republicans can later exploit. All Republicans need to do now is keep opposing cap-and-trade as an energy tax, and keep saying that Congress never intended for the Clean Air Act to morph into Kyoto on steroids.
The graph below shows the absolute difference between Fort Collins temperatures and Boulder temperatures since 1930. There is some sort of discontinuity around 1940, but the UHI imprint is clearly visible in the Fort Collins record. The Colorado State Climatologist, Nolan Doesken manages the Fort Collins Weather station. He has told me that it has never moved or changed instrumentation. and that he believes the increase in temperature is due to UHI effects.
Lake, P.S. 2003. Ecological effects of perturbation by drought in flowing waters. Freshwater Biology 48 : 1161-1172.
Drivers are asked to refrain from distant journeys and not to leave their cars where they could interfere with the passage of emergency vehicles.
So any minute now I expect environmentalists around the world will start a Boycott Biomass campaign. Clearly any truly compassionate green could do nothing less since biomass is a net killer, and warms the planet too.
Like the touted benefits of wind and solar power, ?clean coal? is another environmental myth that is costing billions. Recently, the Global Warming Foundation reported that ?The world invested almost a billion dollars a day in limiting global warming last year, but the total figure$359 billion?was slightly down on last year, and barely half the $700 billion per year that the World Economic Forum has said is needed to tackle climate change.? The report cited was generated by the Climate Policy Initiative.
One problem with that conclusion, according to some climate scientists, is that the U.N.s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has limited the hiatus to 10-15 years. Anastasios Tsonis, distinguished professor at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, believes the pause will last much longer than that. He points to repeated periods of warming and cooling in the 20th century.
Congress and the courts must end the constant collusion and sue-and-settle lawsuits between the EPA and radical pressure groups. Congress must cut agency budgets, especially the billions of dollars the EPA and other agencies give to anti-energy advocacy organizations and rubber-stamping advisory panels.
Global environmental change began to become a political issue in the 1980s. Climatologists and astrophysicists showed that a nuclear war could put so much dust in the air that disastrous cooling would occur, the infamous nuclear winter. With the end of the Cold War, the focus shifted to global warming. At that time, climatologists explained that their computer models were crude approximations of the real atmosphere and pushed the limit of computer technology, requiring months of computing for a single simulation. You could accept either the results of these crude models or the less-formal projections by the most experienced meteorologists. The primary focus continued to be on the implications of what we knew.
Climate Treaty Negotiators Put U.S. in No-Win Situation, Experts Say
In what is destined itself to become a much-derided quote in future years, Connor protests that snowy winters are weather not climate and therefore prove nothing, before immediately pointing to Russias hot summer as proof of global warming:
Well, yes. DOE, under authority delegated to it in the 1987 National Appliance Energy Conservation Act (NAECA), can set energy efficiency standards for clothes washers, among other household appliances. And DOE is in the process of creating standards that would effectively regulate new top loaders out of existence in three years. The NAECA was initially enacted as a belated response to the energy crisis of the 1970s, but is now being used to advance the global warming agenda. Thus, they argue that front-loading washing machines and other efficient gadgets will use less energy and help curtail this potential disaster.
That the earth is currently in a long-term warming phase is not in dispute. It has been since the end of the last Ice Age, and in particular since the end of the Little Ice Age a couple of hundred years ago. It is therefore not surprising, nor alarming, that temperatures today are higher than they were a century ago.
State legislatures are starting to repeal mandates to use alternative fuels such as wind and solar, which can be 10 and even 20 times as expensive as fossil fuels. The "fracking" revolution has made natural gas and oil plentiful and cheap, making the contrast with expensive and unreliable wind and solar even more apparent.
Stealth advocacy on climate change: A catastrophic failure of science
"Maryland's Gov. Martin O'Malley who is well-regarded by environmentalists for consuming and metabolizing the green Kool-Aid on global warming supports the Calvert Cliffs expansion. O'Malley apparently realizes that Maryland needs the electricity given the fact that the state is facing rolling blackouts on summer days starting as early as 2011. Moreover, nuclear power is emissions-free, another plus for Maryland's warmer-in-chief. His support is even more remarkable since he recently barred the installation of wind turbines on public lands. The governor's picking nukes over wind must have sent the greens into meltdown. So in response, the desperate greens came up with a bizarre new argument: nuclear power causes global warming."
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These observed developments have prompted the U.K.s Met Office Climate Center (the national weather service) to quietly revise its projections. They now say: The latest decadal prediction suggests that the next five years are likely to be a little bit lower than predicted from the previous prediction. The predicted increase from 2013 through 2017 was 0.43 degree Celsius above the 1971-2000 mean, while the previous prediction said temperature would increase 0.54 degree from 2012 through 2016. Simply stated, it will be cooler than they expected!
Australias proposed carbon tax would have reduced worldwide temperatures by 1/20,000 th of a degree after ten years. (One twenty-thousandth .)
Tell me one single place that heat is trapped. Heat has to be generated. Heat is always flowing from hot to cold. Heat is only maintained while heat is being constantly generated. Watch a bonfire. As the smoke rises up, so does the carbon dioxide. Within barely 100 feet it has lost its heat. Are these cold and rapidly cooling molecules supposed to re-radiate a heat that they have not even got? Heaven preserve us from such chicanery!
Oregon State is a prime example of what happens when educational institutions fall under progressive-socialist control, and dependency on taxpayer handouts from political overseers in Washington. DeFazio and his fellow congressional Democrats gave OSU a reported $27 million in earmark funding during the last legislative cycle alone. That's $9 million per Robinson student denied a PhD.
The authors write that "sea-level rise is a high-profile and important aspect of climate change," noting that "in the last two Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change assessments, the sum of observed contributions to sea-level rise has consistently been less than the observed rise over multi-decadal periods, thus reducing confidence in the sea-level projections." Therefore, they made a new attempt at achieving what had been so elusive in the past.
Their accounts are externally audited and annually submitted to the government of India, he said.
It examines the science on both sides of the issue presents often hilarious planetary Armageddon prophecies of Al Gore, Leonard Nimoy, and other doomsayers and lets 30 scientists and other experts expose the climate scares and scams, explain Real World climate science, and delve deeply into the politics and media hype that have surrounded this issue since it was first concocted several decades ago
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Well, lets see what the facts tell us.
Following in the heels of Corbyns forecast was the release of a new report by Dr. David Whitehouse , published by the Global Warming Policy Foundation, and what makes it fairly extraordinary after decades of global warming propaganda is that he concludes that there has been no statistically significant increase in annual global temperatures since 1997. Thats seventeen years of atrocious lies about a warming earth.
In this one, at about 2 minutes, even with the resolution turned up high, we have a dramatic tear wiped from what looks like a dry eye.
Global Warming Reducing Temperature Stress on Chinese Rice
I wonder what she might teach her students at TAFE? A balanced view of climate science enabling the students to use their own minds to evaluate the various arguments? Or ramming Gore-based propaganda down their throats? I wonder
How is it possible that so many politicians, their huge bureaucracies, important groups in the scientific establishment, an important segment of business people and almost all journalists see it differently? The only reasonable explanation is that ? without having paid sufficient attention to the arguments ? they have already invested too much into global warming alarmism. Some of them are afraid that by losing this doctrine their political and professional pride would suffer. Others are earning a lot of money on it and are afraid of losing that source of income. Business people hope they will make a fortune out of it and are not ready to write it off. They all have a very tangible vested interest in it. We should say loudly: this coalition of powerful special interests is endangering us.
But we didn?t learn the lesson. Half of the U.S. Senate thinks it needs corn ethanol subsidies to get re-elected. President Obama thinks corn ethanol is ?rural development,? not realizing that half the increase in corn farmers? profits comes from the pockets of their neighbors who are paying double for the grain they feed to chickens, hogs and cattle.
In the concluding paragraph of their paper, Wu et al . thus indicate that their results suggest "future increases in CO 2 would favor increased growth rates of larger diatoms, especially in productive regions, which may act to increase the rate and efficiency of carbon export from the surface to the deep sea." And this phenomenon, in turn, would obviously help to slow the rate-of-rise of the atmosphere's CO 2 concentration, which is the ultimate goal of the world's climate alarmists, which facts further highlight the greater fact that nature itself can take care of itself , without a bit of "help" from global regulators, as a detailed search of our website reveals a number of different ways by which a number of natural phenomena can accomplish this very task, while doing it all by themselves (see the subheadings under Feedback Factors here .
Competitive Enterprise Institute General Counsel Sam Kazman said after the ruling that "as the government's course of action here demonstrates, there's a clear pattern when it comes to this administration: In dealing with global warming issues, agencies tend to act illegally."
With erect posture and clear gray eyes, Chuck Provini still looks like the Marine who graduated from the Naval Academy in 1969 and was repeatedly decorated for bravery in Vietnam.
Suddenly this "aristocracy based on talent and sensibility," in Siegel's words, seems to be discrediting its own policies and its conceit that it is uniquely fit to govern.
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Another German in the audience said this was the saddest day of his life. He, too, had hoped that mindless, compulsory agreement with the State and disruption of discussions by anyone who disagreed had been swept away from Europe forever at the end of the Second World War.
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Eliminating Tall Tales from Fat Tails: On her web site, Climate Etc., Judith Curry discusses the issue of climate sensitivity, the temperature response of the climate to increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide. The fat tails are the significant error ranges on the high-end of possible temperature increases from enhanced CO2, usually from a doubling. These error ranges are not empirically derived, but are estimated, guessed, usually by the modelers. They may have little relation to the earths climate history.
137. Such improper chilling of free, robust and uninhibited public debate over climate change taints and skews the democratic process and distorts the resulting governmental public policy response to alleged global warming.
Further, we should mention the possibility of confusing the public, and often many scientists as well, by clever use of words. I will give just two examples:
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In more detail, the ACORN-SAT Melbourne minimum temperatures before 1990 are shifted up relative to the raw data. The stepped adjustments would suggest instrument changes but the BOM records show thus is not the case. Further, there is no sign of the step changes in the direct Melbourne temperature records. An upward correction is also applied to the maximum temperatures, but is applied only to the past, before 1990, and not the present.
It was inevitable that sooner or later a court would be persuaded to declare that the threat of climate change requires judicial intervention. But whatever one thinks about climate change science and the severity of the threat to human populations, the Dutch court decision is a clear usurpation of the policymaking role of the legislature.
The result was an overall cooling effect that completely contradicts claims made by NASAs own climatology division that greenhouse gases are a cause of global warming. As illustrated by data collected using Sounding of the Atmosphere using Broadband Emission Radiometry (SABER), both carbon dioxide (CO2) and nitric oxide (NO), which are abundant in the earths upper atmosphere, greenhouse gases reflect heating energy rather than absorb it
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As the atmospheric CO 2 concentration increases, it is likely that young mint and thyme plants will exhibit increases in photosynthesis and biomass production. Thus, the yields of these species in commercial herb farms should rise right along with future increases in the air's CO 2 content. The results of this study also indicate that the two plants respond favorably to atmospheric CO 2 concentrations that are much higher than anything realistically anticipated to result from the burning of fossil fuels.
As he explained in the UN's world Commission on Environment and Development (UNCED) August 28, 1991, report: "It is clear that the current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class involving high meat intake, consumption of large amounts of frozen and convenience foods, ownership of motor vehicles, small electric appliances, home and work place conditioning and suburban housing is not sustainable A shift is necessary towards lifestyles less geared to environmentally-damaging consumption patterns."
At the time, there was a unanimous consensus that the Earth was cooling, but James Hansen is just plain smarter thanthe NASA scientists in the 1960s who were still able to put a man on the moon.