Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
In effect, the only thing which conceptually allows our temperature to measurably rise with todays minimal CO2 forcing is the lag in thermal transfer to these huge thermal masses. Oceans are said to mix on over-century timescales. Water and ocean, conduction and convection effects are stated by modern science to be too slow and therefore dangerous warming can occur. Interestingly, land thermal mass seems to have a very high transfer rate and is quite nearly ignored. I dont believe this very significant aspect of global warming has been vetted thoroughly and you shouldnt either.
Conclusion #5: There are better, more cost-effective ways to improve and protect the nation's air quality.
The Clinton-Gore administration claims, however, that if implemented with "flexibility mechanisms," Kyoto would impose negligible costs on the U.S. economy not more than one-tenth of 1 percent of GDP. The most important flexibility mechanism is emission trading a system under which the U.S. supposedly could pay others to reduce their emissions for a fraction of what we'd have to pay to reduce our own.
If e increases with CO2at constant I, T goes down. Therefore CO2causes global cooling.
Of course, it is not clear what, if any, good can come from a climate plan that exempts the heaviest emitters.
on Tuesday, January 18th, 2011 at 1:17 am and is filed under Uncategorized.
on Sunday, October 3rd, 2010 at 2:36 am and is filed under Uncategorized.
Romney commented, "Economic success and environmental protection go hand in hand. The steps we are taking today will ensure a cleaner environment and a brighter future for generations to come." He also maintained that the plan is one of the nation's strongest to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and said it exhibited a strong dedication to implementing the New England Governors and Eastern Canadian Premiers global warming plan from August 2001 (which, by the way, is clearly unconstitutional: see Article 1, Section 10).
All GHG emission sources are included (all countries and all GHG emissions in each country)
The fraudulent documents created by the IPCC modelers generate massive increases in carbon dioxide emissions over the next century.
Could polar bears face extinction? A November 9 Washington Post would have us believe that. Apparently Post staff writer Juliet Eilperin was unfamiliar with a review of the science on polar bears and climate change that we first published in 2002; that report can be found here . But first, consider the study on which Eilperin based her article.
This AEI Public Opinion Study examines polls on the environment, energy, nuclear power, and global warming. In the first section, we look at national polls on the politics of the environment. Democrats lead Republicans by a substantial margin nationally as the party best able to handle environmental issues. Surprisingly, no questions were asked during the 2012 presidential campaign about whether Barack Obama or Mitt Romney would be better at handling the environment. The absence of questions tells a great deal about how little the issue featured in the pollsters' minds in the 2012 election. A few questions were asked about which candidate would be better at handling energy issues.
"While its actions are being lauded as a step into the future, California is actually a late entry into the already failed game of energy rationing. Europe, Japan and Canada are all failing spectacularly to meet their emissions reductions targets under the Kyoto Protocol, despite years of breathless cheerleading for cap-and-trade mechanisms. What California has done today is to decide to become a Third World economy."
The Trick Thats Going to Keep Americas Coal Alive
What we demonstrated in our JGR paper earlier this year is that when cloud changes cause temperature changes, it gives the illusion of positive cloud feedback even if strongly negative cloud feedback is really operating!
President Obama's prescient 2002 opposition to the Iraq War was an early instance of this instinct. While the
This palpable, intolerable insanity must end. It's time to tell Congress (and the European Commission) we need real energy for real jobs, real revenues and a revitalized economy. And we need it now.
How could that be? Cherry says theres been an implicit assumption that because electric cars dont burn fossil fuels, theyre cleaner for the environment and safer for people, but that doesnt take into account how the electricity they use is generated. In China, that would be from you guessed it fossil fuels. About 85% of the countrys electricity is powered by fossil fuels, of which 95% is coal.
Two quick comments. First, as a technical matter, EPA did not receive an official remand from the Court of Appeals, where the case originated, until September 14, 2007. Second, and more importantly, it wasn't until December or thereabouts that EPA began to understand the enormity of the regulatory burden it might inadvertently unleash by rushing to set CO2 standards for motor vehicles.
Now, as to the second piece of trash you mention, written by a grad student and Steven Schneider, that is so hopelessly flawed that even several warmists condemned it. It's all over the blogosphere if you care to read the details. BTW that paper was NOT peer-reviewed. PNAS is a vanity press for members of the NAS and publishes articles from NAS members WITHOUT peer review. PNAS is becoming a laughing stock with this paper and the recent Oppenheimer paper telling us "climate change" is going to flood the US with illegal aliens.
Figure 1. Annual average global temperature anomalies from the surface (red) and from the lower atmosphere (blue), 1979-2011 (the value for 2011 in the surface record is based on only 11 months of data).
According to Storch et al. (2009) , "temperature is often invoked as the main determinant of distribution ranges and boundaries for marine and terrestrial species," and they note the larval stages of many marine species "are more vulnerable to thermal and osmotic stresses than adults." Consequently, they explored the rigidity of this temperature determinant of livable range for the Chilean kelp crab (Taliepus dentatus) in its most temperature-sensitive larval state.
"Alex Sink's campaign violated rules Monday evening at the CNN/St. Petersburg Times Florida gubernatorial debate when her make-up artist delivered a message during a television break."
But Thompson et al (2009) acknowledged that there was also a drop in land surface temperatures at that time. They wrote, It is worth noting that the land data also exhibit a small drop in the mean ~1945, albeit much smaller than that found in the residual SST time series (Figure 10).
Thus Michael Kundu, whale photographer , pronounces the data from NASA, Hadley, UAH, CSSP, IPPC, as fiction.
Google launches a new global initiative dedicated to promoting literacy.
So riddled with wishful thinking and contradictions are these proposals that one scarcely knows where to begin. For a start, even if we could hope to build enough windmills to provide, say, 25 per cent of our electricity (10 times the current proportion), this would require not the 10,000 turbines the Government talks of, but more like 25,000, costing well over 200 billion, plus another 100 billion to connect them up to the grid.
Steve Fielding confronts Climate Minister Penny Wong with his question : why has the world not warmed these past seven eight years when were pumping out more carbon dioxide than ever?
UPDATE: See the follow-up post El Nio Residuals Cause the C-Shaped Warming Pattern in thePacific for a further discussion.
Back to the title question: Are anthropogenic greenhouse gases important in the warming of the global oceans?
He?s skeptical that the warming is as great as we show in East Antarctica ? he
Meanwhile, the National Academy of Sciences and a number of large higher education associations and other academic interests are supporting Mann?s position with their own legal brief. Michael Halpern of the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) has written about relevant background for the scientific community. ?The court clearly understood the potential consequences of the actions it is being asked to take,? Halpern wrote after attending the Virginia Supreme Court?s January 2014 hearing, ?with multiple justices talking about how the interpretive standard they set will apply not just to this case but to tens of thousands of cases.?
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"Mankind shares a real co-responsibility," Trittin told a news conference. "It is unacceptable for American citizens to pump twice as much carbon dioxide into the atmosphere as Europeans," he said earlier in an ARD television interview.
R is the coefficient of determination. It tells us how well the trend line fits the data. An R of 1.0 would be a perfect fit. An R of 0.0 would be no fit. 0.0334 is a lot closer to 0.0 than it is to 1.0. R is related to explained variance. The linear trend line explains about 3.3% of the variation in the temperature data since 1997. 96.7% of the variation was due to natural climatic oscillations (quasi-periodic fluctuations, if you prefer) and stochastic variability.
26a. Potential for catastrophe from climate change for other parts of the world in the next ten years (very low to very high).
Of course, this agency would be fair. They would realize that it was trivial to see that the fire couldn't occur - because they were looking at hundreds of similar houses in the past and they knew the actual reason of the small recent fire. And the only reason why they had to see this house was that its owner was misled by a well-known group of fraudsters - and a fair agency doesn't want to charge people for such incidents because that would effectively be collaboration with the fraudsters. So they would only charge the homeowner $50. As you can see, the guy saved $19,900. He is insured and owns additional houses in other towns, anyway.
At best, such argumentation debases the coinage of public discourse about "national security" and makes it harder to devote resources and attention to things that have a much more direct and demonstrable impact upon our security. When everything is a pressing "national security" challenge, after all, nothing really is. (Well, perhaps not everything. Rice's argument, of course, offers a marvelously convenient case for shortchanging military security. Why spend a dime on the Pentagon when the real threat comes from the fact that somebody somewhere in the world lacks "affordable health care" and a "decent school"?) At worst, such notions could open the door to a degree of government involvement and involvement by our security bureaucracies, no less in socio-economic policy worryingly beyond what our political system has hitherto been willing to tolerate.
About 50 people set out on foot from the Swiss village of Fiesch at dawn on July 31. As the sun rose over 13,000-foot (4,000-meter) Alpine peaks, the procession moved slowly up a mountainside and into the cool of a pine forest, stopping at a tiny church.
Uncertainty in the amount of warming combines with uncertainty in the pace of warming. From an instantaneous doubling of atmospheric CO2 content from the pre-industrial base level, some models would project 2C (3.6F) of global warming in less than a decade while others would project that it would take more than a century to achieve that much warming.
Things used to be simple. The Church taught how the world worked and how to behave. The positive and the normative were united. The Enlightenment put an end to that. We are supposed to follow evidence rather than dogma. In the early days, an intelligent person could comprehend all of science. Not any longer. Experts master a small subfield only.
The Chinese crew is hoping a French icebreaker 14 nautical miles away will arrive and offer relief, said Zhu Li, chief officer of the Chinese ship.
Morrongiello et al . determined that "fish growth declined as water levels in the lakes dropped during the drought," but they say that "this effect was offset by increased growth in warmer years." In fact, it was more than offset; because based on the relationships they developed from their real-world data, they found that the 2070 mean annual growth of two-year-old golden perch in Lakes Mokoan and Eppalock, respectively, was estimated to increase by 14.9% and 17.2% under low CO 2 emission and 56.5% and 58.6% under high CO 2 emission scenarios compared with 1990 CO 2 levels.
They say a team of scientists has irrefutable proof of a large colony of platypuses, living under the site and they have called on Environment Minister Desley Boyle to intervene to stop construction of the supermarket.
It then strongly looks as though 2004-2005 was simply an unlucky anomaly since hurricane trends bear no similarity to the annual atmospheric carbon dioxide trend and, by extension, to global warming.
A new study suggests a connection between global warming and stronger hurricanes.
The most important occupations included my job as the commanding officer of the Czech Army Contingent in Afghanistan, the superintendent of the 11th field hospital of the Czech Army in Afghanistan, the vice-commander of the operational commandership of the armed forces' medical service, or important positions within the Section of army's healthcare of the Military headquarters of the Czech Army.
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Ive provided my best naive prediction for future values: Shown in brown. These are based on simple linear extrapolation. No assumption the 52 values are 52 weeks or anything like that. Im assuming being close to 52 weeks is a coincidence.
evidence. . . . The implicit threat was that if a bank continued to do business
I think any good scientist ought to be a skeptic, Dyson said.
then it should come as no surprise that the IPCCs climate models without anthropogenic forcings cant simulate the warming observed during the late warming period of 1976-2000 either, Figure 5.
The significant subjective components of each of the more socially oriented subindices of the Prosperity Index are bounded by reality. Even if one were to debate how comparable one country's subjective well-being data are with another, at least there is a reference point for debate. Indeed, that is the beauty of the Index: because it is transparent and provides the reader and researcher alike all the background data, it allows for individual experimentation, and it is a work in progress. It answers many questions, while it raises even more. Like the Sarkozy commission, it may lead to a better understanding of what makes people prosperous.
Earth is currently experiencing rapid warming, which the vast majority of climate scientists says is due to humans pumping huge amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.
A second option is to strip the carbon from the fuel before you burn it. Most fuel cells depend on "reformers" that do just that. Most current reformers dump the stripped-out carbon into the air as carbon dioxide, but other processes leave the carbon behind as a solid residue. That takes care of carbon emissions all right--roughly speaking, such a fuel cell starts with methane, extracts the hydrogen and then returns coal to the ground. But this also costs about 50% of the heating value of the original gaseous fuel.
The North Atlantic has an additional mode of natural variability called the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation. Weve discussed it in numerous posts over the past few years. (See the posts under the category of Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation here .) If youre not familiar with the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation see the NOAA Frequently Asked Questions About the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO) webpage and the posts:
T and CO2 appear to have been in equilibrium until about 3,000 BCE. Over the 5,000 years since then, CO2 has risen increasingly above its natural equilibrium. By 1,800 CE, CO2 had risen to a level comparable to the highest in the Vostok record. During this time, T declined at a rate of 0.1 C per thousand years, indicating again that CO2 has no apparent effect on T. The trends of this 5,000-year interval of excess CO2 are consistent with the equilibrium model, in
I suspect that the committee will spend very little time asking how energy prices might be lowered by lifting restrictions on domestic exploration and refinery development. That said, they will likely spend no time at all pondering how dozens of greenhouse gas and renewable energy legislative provisions will almost certainly increase energy prices throughout the economy. It's like inviting PETA to testify at a hearing on "America's Meat Supply Crisis."
"Google is resuming work on a major data center project in Pryor, Oklahoma, saying it will soon need to being additional data center capacity online. The $600 million Oklahoma project was originally scheduled for completion in 2009, but was delayed due to the slowing economy. It is now expected to be operational by the end of 2011."
Like all people apart from politicians my hopes for 2010 are world peace and freedom from hunger, poverty, discrimination and oppression. Oh and the reintroduction of stoning for Channel Nine executives, religious fundamentalists, people who ask you to bring your own meat to their barbeques, parents with gifted children and climate change skeptics.
Introductory Remarks by Craig Rucker of CFACT, Climate Sense Conference, Copenhagen
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One is the fact that any Senate vacancy can have huge implications for policy, especially in this polarized environment. One vacancy out of 435 in the House is nowhere near as significant as one out of 100. The situation earlier this year, with five Senate vacancies, pointed out another twist on the vacancy issue. It is a good thing when presidents reach into the Senate for Cabinet or other key posts; it broadens sensitivity in the executive to the importance of Congress, smooths communications between the branches, and expands the talent pool for a president. But if there are no appointments at all under any circumstances for the Senate, presidents will rarely if ever choose a Senator for the Cabinet; the loss of a Senate vote for five or six months would be too costly.
The CPP Conflicts with Underlying Regulations. Even if the courts concluded this rule does not violate the Clean Air Act, the Constitution, and canons of statutory construction, it violates the EPA's own implementing regulations. Therefore, the Clean Power Plan runs afoul of a key administrative law principle - namely, an extant regulation carries the force of law. Because it is inconsistent with its underlying regulation, the Clean Power Plan is an impermissible exercise of authority.
Antarctic airstrip melting away I4U News
The blink comparator below shows CU claims, and the actual rates.
The Competitive Enterprise Institute was subpoenaed by one of those AGs on April 7, 2016.
Faced with the embarrassment that the snowfall predictions were all wrong, advocates who claim increased CO2 from fossil fuel use will cause global warming are desperate to keep the global warming hype alive, says Ken Gregory, a director of Friends of Science. After all, it has become a multibillion dollar 'low-carbon' industry. So, global warming activists now say warmer weather causes more snowfall! Their predictions change with every weather event - one day warming causes more snow and the next day it causes less snow.
on Monday, October 29th, 2012 at 3:38 pm and is filed under Uncategorized.
Through a comprehensive error analysis, we found that CF is a primary modulator of warming (or cooling) in the atmosphere. The comparisons and statistical results from this study may provide helpful insight for improving GCM simulations of clouds and TOA radiation budgets in future versions of CMIP.
Sure keeping taxes as low as possible and limiting government spending are important, but without economic growth which the EPA is blocking neither will be enough to rescue our economy or our country from financial disaster.
It is pertinent to ask whether any experiments have been performed to suggest whether life could thrive at higher CO 2 concentrations. Pine and aspen trees grown at the University of Michigans biological station at Pellston, were found to respond dramatically to elevated CO 2 levels. They grew 30% faster than normal trees at about double the normal CO 2 level (700 ppm) ( 20 ).
Solar cycle 24 showing signs that we could be entering a new Maunder minimum anytime soon.
The claims against The Australian are not just baseless, theyre claims any half decent rag ought to be ashamed for even mentioning. Golly, The Australian not only prints baseless smear articles in favor of establishment opinions, they sometimes print rational dialogue in response. The crime! The saddest thing is that that places the lonesome Australian closer to the center, but far to the right of all the rubber-stamping PR machines who only put out the government approved propaganda.
3. Due to this strong negative-feedback, global climatesensitivity is only 0.41 K/(W m-2) - HALF the 0.8 K/(W/m2) + assumed by the IPCC
Ron Clutz on Science Matters, has an interesting and very detailed piece on the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation ( AMOC ): Climate Pacemaker: The AMOC . It was also picked up by Paul Homewood on Not a Lot of People Know That with a comment by Joe DAleo The AMO tracks to the solar irradiance with a lag of about 8-9 years. This suggests the current warm AMO state will end by around 2015. Northern Hemispheric temperature will take a leg down. With the cooling of the Pacific now and more La Ninas, look for net cooling especially in the tropics until then.
Shova picks out some of Mitradangas defences from our surroundings. The mudcaked men are climbing up out of paddy fields sown with indigenous deep-water and saline-resistant rice varieties; the ducks waddling into their coops are prodigious layers, whose eggs provide both nutrition and an income to plug the gap left by lower-yielding rice.
Climate change chatter ran rampant after an unusually violent string of twisters in 2011 (see chart above), including a Joplin, Mo., storm that killed 158 people. After tornadoes took at least 24 lives in Moore, Okla., on Monday, headlines are once again raising the question: Will a warming world fuel more tornado strikes?
The reader is still left, however, with a view that most climate scientists agree that more heat waves should be expected in the future.
And in fact, that's exactly what the DOE did in its analysis: reasonably assess the complicated impact of LNG exports across a range of economic and environmental variables. Although the Energy Department's findings were well received by most economists across the political spectrum, Dow along with the coalition of anti-shale gas Congressmen rejected them outright.
There are ways to help prevent this. If you haven?t heard of the TRAIN act, it may be voted on this Friday and it will hopefully be a way to reign in some of this tyrannical regulation:
There is no such thing as "environmental justice." It is an invention of environmental groups that are intent on convincing people that whatever they do or fail to do somehow has an impact on the weather.
Looking at the projections for 2006 to 2100, the model mean of outgoing shortwave radiation has a negative trend of about -0.21 watts/m^2/decade. But some models show outgoing shortwave radiation increasing slightly in the future, while others show it decreasing at a much greater rate. The greatest negative trend is about -0.48 watts/m^2/decade. At the other end of the wide spectrum is a model with a relatively slight positive trend of +0.02 watts/m^2/decade. Bottom line: theres about a 0.5 watts/m^2/decade spread in the projected future outgoing shortwave radiation, with some models showing little change and others a sizeable decrease.
"As I understand, the plan now is for world leaders to fly in for the first day and hold a pep rally," Myron Ebell, director of energy policy at the free market Competitive Enterprise Institute. "That way, they can't impede the negotiations as they did in Copenhagen in 2009."