Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
The NRC report was more of a peer review than an independent assessment. Another potential "Team B" effort one might point to is the U.S. Climate Change Science Program, an offshoot of the U.S. Global Change Research Project, an ambitious national attempt to push ahead with research on a broad range of environmental issues related to climate. This in an interagency effort combining the talents of thirteen federal agencies from the Pentagon and Department of Agriculture to the Smithsonian Institution. It will undoubtedly produce important work and has already produced several policy assessments of climate issues.
The IPCC report has failed to report on the implications of the real world radiative imbalance being significantly smaller than the radiative forcing. This means not only that the net radiative feedbacks must be negative, but they failed to document the magnitude in Watts per meter squared of the contributions to positive feedbacks from surface warming, and from atmospheric water vapor and clouds.
Review of Recent Scientific Articles by CO2 Science
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Look again at that tiny Biomass, other line at the top. That is what would need to be expanded to be as large as the coal, oil, and natural gas lines combined. The compound rate of growth required to do that in any reasonable time period would be staggering. It just wont happen.
This just showed up in my inbox. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC), savior of climate legislation , says yesterday that (see video above), What I'm trying to do is make sure that the Markey-Waxman bill from the House is dead. Because it will have about an 800 dollar individual cost per person ... Expect clarifications soon.
Stories citing experts or the latest studies promoting alarmism get covered more than 8 times as often as critical experts and studies.
As You Sow also filed a resolution to pressure cosmetic manufacturer Avon to stop using manmade ingredients in its products. Though the product ingredients are FDA-approved, As You Sow proceeded with its resolution as if the ingredients were untested and indisputably harmful. Needless to say, an overwhelming majority of shareholders (96 percent) voted against the resolution.
Britain may have enough offshore shale gas to catapult it into the top ranks of global producers, energy experts now believe, and while production costs are still very high, new U.S. technology should eventually make reserves commercially viable.
The world has warmed 0.05 degrees Celsius (0.09 degrees Fahrenheit) per decade over the past 15 years, a fraction of the 0.2C (0.36F) per decade rate confidently predicted by the U.N. six years ago, according to a leaked copy of the foremost climate report in the world.
Anyway, I plotted Manhattan sea level versus GISS global temperature anomaly for the period 1893 to 1910, to make this relationship clear.
China outperforms India in both of the main economic subindices because it provides greater economic certainty to investors, receiving far more foreign direct investment than India. Still, the over-all index implies that trouble is brewing for China as it loses out to India in all other subindices, especially in its lack of democracy and personal freedom. Consequently, this places India forty-fifth in the rankings, while China is a lowly seventy-fifth. Brazil does a bit better than India (forty-first) and Russia a bit better than China (sixty-ninth). Like China, Russia fails on indices related to freedom.
Evidence is quickly mounting against the idea that Antarctic melt will contribute to global sea level rise during the 21st century. In fact, the real debate might be concerning the degree to which an increase in mass balance on Antarctica will counterbalance melt elsewhere across Earth.
In his 15-minute segment, Pederson accused Murphy of breaching journalistic ethics in a July 24, 2009, Globe and Mail column entitled "So where's that global cooling alert?" Murphy's crime? He ignored what Pederson considers the global warming "facts." Pederson's point was that a newspaper columnist can have whatever opinions he/she wants, but these opinions must be based on facts, not just ideology. As a former columnist myself, for the Times Colonist, I also believe this is true.
No hurricanes have made landfall in the US for over two years. In 1933, five hurricanes struck the US.
with the most pronounced warming obviously in the Arctic, in stark contrast to the DMI data and the NASA/GISS Greenland Godthab weather station (graphs above, which is the only station in operation for Greenland during the entire 1881-2009 period)(the second longest running Antarctic station Angmagssalik also shows no significant change in temperature 1895-2009).
* Polar bears are drowning because a warming planet is melting the Arctic. Fact: Four bears drowned during a particularly violent storm, and polar bear populations are actually increasing in Alaska and Canada.
There are too many hysteric screeds written against men, blaming them for everything from climate change to a bad hair day. This essay is not meant to join those ranks. What it is, is an essay, an attempt, to understand cultural features of our present society that seem to make both men and women treat society itself as one great big scam, joke, or horror. The very surfaces of that culture, in things as seemingly harmless or trivial as clothes and workout regimens, tell a troubling tale of deep boredom and unhappiness.
For example, a very recently discussed paper by German and Russian climatologists claims that it's normal for the climate to oscillate in the observed way at this place of the glaciation cycle, before a new ice age arrives: Register , paper .
To show how wrong Murphy had been, Pederson presented a PowerPoint slide showing that, contrary to Murphy's column, July 2009 was quite hot in most of the planet, and suggestedto audience laughterthat Murphy was foolishly guilty of assuming the weather in Toronto represented the world. Below is the map Pederson used, from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) website.
Sorry, that's not good enough even for government work.
The heliosphere, and the termination shock sphere within it, deflects cosmic radiation. The Earths geomagnetic field also deflects cosmic radiation. The strength of the heliosphere depends on the Suns activity levels. High levels of solar activity reduce the volume of cosmic rays entering the Earths atmosphere, contributing to global warming. High levels of solar activity generate more turbulence in the heliosphere scattering galactic cosmic rays before they reach the inner planets. Conversely, a greater volume of cosmic rays enter our atmosphere during times of low solar activity because the Heliospheric magnetic fields are smoother with less scattering of galactic cosmic rays, resulting in global cooling.
Large Number Of Dead Whales Wash Up. Offshore Windpark Construction May Be The Cause
But everyone who knows anything about climate history agrees that it is warmer now than in the mid-nineteenth century. Otherwise we would still be in the Little Ice Age.
At any rate, David did a very good job - although he finally admitted that he had to sweat a lot because of all these questions. David also asked a question to Frank Wilczek: What are you working on now because we're not interested in all this past nonsense that you did to be awarded by the Nobel prize. OK, the wording was a bit different. ;-) Would you expect such a focus on the most up-to-date issues from a classicist? Miracles occur in this world.
THE MISSING INGREDIENT: WHY 99% OF THUNDERSTORMS DO NOT PRODUCE TORNADOES Ive been trying to think of why some might assume a warmer climate would produce more tornadoes, and I suspect the main reason is that tornadoes are produced by thunderstorms, and thunderstorms require warm, moist air for fuel. Ergo, warming should lead to more tornadoes.
This fantasy is so bizarre that Jonathan Swift could, using statements from today?s Royal Society without embellishment, write them into his account of the kingdom of Laputa. The citizens of Laputa lived on a cloud and threw rocks at rebellious surface cities beneath them. Using Laputa as a satire on the Royal Society, Swift portrayed the ruin brought about by the attempts by the scientists living in the clouds to impose their will on the helpless people living below them.
Attribution of observed impacts in the WGII AR5 generally links responses of natural and human systems to observed climate change, regardless of its cause.
Pansch et al . report that over a period of 20 weeks, the survival, growth, reproduction and shell strength of Kiel barnacles "were all unaffected by p CO 2 , regardless of food availability," and that "larval development and juvenile growth of the F1 generation were tolerant to increased p CO 2 , irrespective of parental treatment." In contrast, they report that "elevated p CO 2 had a strong negative impact on survival of Tjarno barnacles," with specimens from this population being "able to withstand moderate levels of elevated p CO 2 over five weeks when food was plentiful," but which "showed reduced growth under food limitation." In addition, they found that "severe levels of elevated p CO 2 negatively impacted the growth of Tjarno barnacles in both food treatments." What it means
Dr Jan Esper is Prof. Dr. at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Save the date. The Cooler Heads Coalition is sponsoring a seminar on "The Impacts of Global Warming: a Scientific Appraisal" from 10 AM to 1:30 PM on Monday, May 3. Speakers include: Paul Reiter of the Pasteur Institut on vector-borne diseases, Nils-Axel Morner of Stockholm University on sea-level rise, and Madhav Khandekar recently retired from Environment Canada on storms and severe weather events. Further details will appear in the next issue. For information, please contact Myron Ebell at (202) 331-2256 or mebell@cei.org.
It is difficult to believe that any self-respecting scientist would have anything to do with the Climate Witness Panel after reading those eight pages. The WWF states baldly, right up front, that the purpose of the panel is to heighten the publics sense of urgency . That particular phrase is used four times on the final page.
Whitman defended her environmental record and the program. Spokesman Joe Martyak praised the program as a voluntary effort "designed to achieve air quality benefits earlier and at a lower cost than conventional approaches .The most important thing is that, both as the governor as well as the administrator of EPA, she's sought creative ways to reduce the air pollution out there" (Newark Star-Ledger, September 17, 2002).
Clearly from his chart one sees the millennial cycles that coincide with documented solar activity. And as Dr. Sebastian Lning showed yesterday in Chicago, we are not talking about fluctuations of a couple of tenths of a degree, but of fluctuations over 1, 2 or even 3C.
As previously reported the 2003 European heat wave was statistically unusual and was a deep tropospheric phenomenon. However,
What the EPA is attempting to impose on America is a drain on our production of electricity coupled with an increase in its price. It is an obscene attack on our economy.
As we are testing EIR with the other climate audit org request relating to
NOAA's adjustments to previous ocean temperatures between 1998 and 2012 made recent global temperature changes appear more than twice warmer than the original records showed.
As I have discussed before, the IPCCs neglect of natural variability in the climate system ends up leading to circular reasoning on their part. They ignore the effect of natural cloud variations when trying to diagnose feedback, which then leads to overestimates of climate sensitivity . This, in turn, causes them to conclude that increasing carbon dioxide concentrations alone are sufficient to explain global warming, and so no natural forcings of climate change need be found.
SM: Well, this might not be too pleasing to some of your readers, but I'm not an unmitigated Clinton-basher. Let's face it, the eight years that Bill Clinton was president were some of the most prosperous years in American history.
As the CO 2 content of the air rises, it is still unclear as to how antioxidizing enzymes in sugar maple seedlings will respond to the uptake of ozone, as some specific antioxidants exhibit increases in their activities while others display decreases. Likewise, without any photosynthetic or growth data, it is difficult to determine whether or not changes in antioxidizing enzymes are truly occurring to the benefit or the detriment of the plant. Thus, further research is needed to reach any solid conclusions on this topic with respect to sugar maple seedlings. However, elevated CO 2 has been demonstrated to decrease oxidative stress in other species (see our Journal Reviews on the Effects of Lifetime Exposure to Elevated CO 2 on Antioxidative Enzymes in Mature Oak Trees and the Effects of Elevated CO 2 and Nitrogen Supply on Antioxidative Enzymes in Beech Seedlings ).
In the words of Fiorini et al ., "our results confirm that the expected 3??C increase in the present seawater temperature will not strongly affect the physiology of this eurythermal species," and that "the effect of an elevated pCO 2 in seawater will not be significant on calcification or on the PIC:POC ratio in either life stage." And this no real news is definitely real good news for life in the world's oceans.
Obviously Rahmstorf and Mann are unable to come to terms with the results derived from real observed data, and thus feel compelled to create another reality based of very fuzzy, indirect data that can be interpreted as desired.
I am not saying that the local temperature data are unaffected by such adjustments they surely are (and I guess that most examples mentioned by Chris Booker plus similar examples probably really mean that the "historical chronicles" give us a more accurate picture than the adjusted temperature records). But when we talk about the global mean temperature, the effect of all these adjustments seems negligible.
RFK, Jr. Wants Me Jailed as a War Criminal!
For a moment, idealization of the working man, but not the middle-class striver, came into vogue. But in the postwar years, what Siegel calls "the political and cultural snobbery" of liberals returned.
From the known laws of physics, CO2 has very little impact on both recent past, and future, global temperatures. The science of CO2 impact on temperatures, as depicted in charts below, is not disputed. Source for CO2 info here .
Renewable energy hucksters ignore all of this, as they seek more grants, tax credits, production mandates, feed-in tariffs, production tax credits, and guaranteed annual returns on investments. They seek to claim the high moral ground, by chanting "renewable" while ignoring the environmental, economic and human costs of capturing and delivering energy from their preferred sources.
Regardless, for progressives such as Dewey, with the ultimate end the ultimate given, the means only needs to be deemed scientific for it to be justified. From this, it can be reasoned that progressives may willingly accept any means justified by science ( eugenics anyone? ). 4
Hitherto economic analysis of climate change has concentrated on what the Kyoto Protocol compliance costs might be, a subject that is not part of the IPCC process at all, while most attention on the IPCC process has been directed to narrowing the uncertainties of the climate models themselves. An independent economic analysis of the front end of the climate change process would be a useful starting point for finance ministries or a Team B to enter the fray.
Armed more with an ancient myth about a lost natural paradise, the critics of GMO are keeping billions in the developing world from enjoying the nutrition and adequate food that Western elites take for granted. As Borlaug said before his death, such critics have "never experienced the physical sensation of hunger. They do their lobbying from comfortable office suites in Washington or Brussels. If they lived just one month amid the misery of the developing world, as I have for fifty years, they'd be crying out for tractors and fertilizer and irrigation canals and be outraged that fashionable elitists back home were trying to deny them these things."
The pH needs to be less than 7 to be acid, and this has not happened through at least the past 600 million years because it would dissolve limestones, and limestone have been deposited in the sea and not re-dissolved in the sea through all that time.
The trouble does not end there. Cook has been reluctant to share his data for others to scrutinize. He has claimed that some data are protected by confidentiality agreements, even when they are not. He was claimed that some data were not collected, even when they were. The paper claims that each abstract was read by two independent readers, but they freely compared notes. Cook and Co. collected data, inspected the results, collected more data, inspected the results again, changed their data classification, collected yet more data, inspected the results once more, and changed their data classification again, before they found their magic 97 percent. People who express concern about the method have been smeared.
"China announced last week that it opened the world's longest sea bridge and added a line to the world's largest high-speed rail network. Meanwhile, on this side of the Pacific, the United States is struggling to address its crumbling roads and creaky bridges."
As James B. Conant points out in Science and Common Sense, "The dynamic view in contrast to the static regards science as an activity; thus, the present state of knowledge is of importance chiefly as a basis for further operations. From this point of view science would disappear completely if all the laboratories were closed; the theories, principles, and laws embalmed in the texts would be dogmas; for if all the laboratories were closed, all further investigation stopped, there could be no re-examination of any proposition." Conant himself opts for the dynamic viewbut just as in economics, Al Gore is the modern standard-bearer of the static view of what he calls science. But it's not science at allit's a government-driven research agenda designed merely to strengthen the hand of politicians at all levels of government in controlling economic and social activity.
The idealizations of nature remain powerful today. Much of the leftist critique of globalized capitalism recycles with a veneer of Marxist theory the demonization of technology and industrialism that first appears in the myth of the Iron Age. "All natural," "organic," and "no GMO" are labels that savvy marketers use to sell food. And of course, the stock-in-trade of dystopian science fiction is the mad scientist whose unnatural creations threaten to destroy the earth and the human race.
I did not propose the results of these sensitivity studies as an alternative and more robust chronology. I am not arguing that the Yamal versions using the Schweingruber data provide the correct climate history for the region. I am arguing that the version constructed by Briffa, and relied on so extensively in the literature since then, is not robust in its late-20th century portion to a small and reasonable inclusion of additional data.
Washington, D.C., March 29, 2006The Competitive Enterprise Institute is calling on the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury to reconsider his comments made during an interview on the BBC yesterday about global warming. During the interview, the Right Reverend Rowan Williams said that Christians have a moral duty to support reductions in greenhouse gas emissions because if they do not, it could cause "billions of people to die."
When starting with the problem of conserving energy input and output to the Earth, you can do it in terms of units of energy, in Joules, or you can try to do it in terms of energy flux density, in Joules per second per square meter. The problem is that averaging only works in terms of plain energy, in Joules, but not in energy flux density. If you say that, every second, 1.22 x 1017Joules enters and leaves the Earth, and you identify where it enters and leaves the Earth, then youre fine, youre acknowledging reality, and the flux densities explain the processes we see in reality, such as the water cycle.
The US Midwest is having its coolest summer, after its second coldest winter on record. During the winter of 1932, the average temperature was above freezing.
Those professing concern for the poor need to realise that Green Energy steals from the biosphere and that hydrocarbons are the real friends of the poor.
Greens say we need sustainable energy, but solar and wind are not the answer. The wind may blow for free and the sun may shine for free, but current technology to capture and convert those resources into energy needs public money at an unsustainable rate. It??s inconvenient, but it??s the truth.
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Read here . Globally, scientists with solid empirical-based backgrounds are saying there are severe problems with many of the 2007 IPCC predictions. Namely, that many of the predictions are flat-out false based on the IPCC's political agenda , or wildly inflated by failed climate models.
Heck I even find myself thinking I have no reason to think our government would not do this as a manufactured crisis for effect. That was not true 5, 10, or 15 years back. Id have just flushed the whole idea on the face of it. Now? Now there is no reason to assume there is no conspiracy. Agenda 21 proves that there is a conspiracy (though they dont call it that. It is called coordination instead Another of those irregular English verbs:
A great number of coral populations across the globe have been steadily declining due to the adverse effects of climate change. The NOAA even recently recognized 20 different types of coralas threatened species due to notable decline. However, some coral have found themselves an ally. Mangroves appear to be harboring a great number of coral species, protecting them from things like ocean acidification and elevated temperatures.
/s/ Dr. George Mueller Hdq., Assoc. Adm., Office of Space Flight, 6 years
Issues: Minimum wage, organized labor, international trade.
The answer is that they probably will. What both Obama and the Russians know is that Obama doesn't have an alternative. If the Russians break the deal, will Obama unleash massive American support for an anti-Assad offensive? No. Will the White House assemble a coalition of regional allies to bring the war criminals to justice? Nyet. Will the U.S. force Russia to pay some dire price on some other issue in world politics? Almost certainly not.
Range et al. (2012) : There is no evidence of carbon dioxide-related mortalities of juvenile or adult mussels even under conditions that far exceed the worst-case scenarios for future ocean acidification.
$7,000 for repair of a small dent and scratch that required no replacement of parts
"The airline pilot who lost his federally-issued gun and badge for posting video on YouTube critical of airport security has chosen to go public with his identity."
Reagan was of course reelected in 1984 and is remembered as one of the great tax-cutters in American history.
If there was no feedback (which would indicate a borderline unstable climate system), then the ocean heat content-inferred radiative imbalance (0.2 W m-2) would equal the forcing (0.8 W m-2), which it clearly doesn't since there is a 4x difference.
And without the extra silt brought from floodwaters, the shallows are subject to erosion and breakup. This would clearly warp the fossil record, but would also warp the tidal gauge record as well; the sea would appear to be rising when in fact the land is sinking, being washed away.