Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
Musk has another argument up his sleeve to justify taxpayer largesse lavished on his company: to save the world from global warming.
Mr. Chairman, Mr. Upton, other members of the subcommittee, thank you for the opportunity to appear before you today. I am Lee Lane, a Resident Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. AEI is a non-partisan, non-profit organization conducting research and education on public policy issues. AEI does not adopt organizational positions on the issues that it studies, and the views that I express here are mine, not those of AEI.
Hundreds of MW, probably upper, however, oil is an unusual fuel so I suspect this is peak times only. They mention gas plant but seem to casually throw this in without detail. Presumably a similar power and the thermal efficiency is a little better.
At the UN Climate summit in Peru this whole issue of verification has moved front and center as various parties balked this week at the notion of letting an international body like the UN play judge and jury to their energy policies.
4. The statement by Ramanthan and Feng that IPCC models suggest that 25% (0.6C) of the committed warming has been realized as of now illustrates that they assume that the climate system has an equilibrium radiative balance, when in reality it does not. Moreover, they are using the IPCC models to evaluate how out-of-radiative-balance the climate system is, yet those models fail to adequately simulate the radiative feedbacks, nor even have all of the first order climate forcings. In the 2005 National Research Council report (on which Dr. Ramanathan was a co-author), it is written on page 100 that
In 2009, Dow broke ranks with many manufacturers to aggressively support the American Clean Energy and Security Act, the Democrats' cap-and-trade bill, jointly sponsored by him and Waxman in 2009. Many on the left and the right savaged the bill as both weak and a pork-fest. After barely passing in the House it went down to bi-partisan defeat in the Senate in 2010. Although it never became law, it provided a huge political boost to Markey and Waxmanand Dow's support was crucial. And now Markey and Dow are aligned once again.
I also think that the National Academy of Sciences was right, when they recently clarified that historically, reporting that the last few decades have been the hottest in the last 400 years, though nobody knows what that really means in any kind of historical context.
It was roundly de-bunked at the time by several commentators and it would have been forgotten and consigned to its proper place in the dustbin, if it hadnt been continually quoted by activists as fact.
If youre waiting for me to say global sea surface temperatures cool during all La Nia events, youll be waiting a long time, because the sea surface temperature records dont show they cool during all La Nias. Let me clarify that: the sea surface temperatures for a portion of the global oceans do respond proportionally to El Nio and La Nia events, but in a much larger area, they do not.
Claim: Obesity causes genetic changes that are passed on to offspring
Here once again we have a few arrogant Germans with an insatiable desire for world domination. One function of the WBGU is, as Ackermann writes:
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Although it is easy to dismiss all this as bureaucratic bilge, President Barack Obama's latest memorandum builds on a number of earlier executive actions to embed climate policies, programs, and offices into every aspect of the federal government. It has proven very difficult to abolish federal programs of any type once they have offices and employees.
Professor Jones told the BBC yesterday there was truth in the observations of colleagues that he lacked organisational skills, that his office was swamped with piles of paper and that his record keeping is ?not as good as it should be?.
We are not on the winning side, but looking back, we can afford to say that since the launching of the massive global warming propaganda at the UN Rio Summit in 1992 and since its subsequent acceptance worldwide, several things happened that suggest some degree of optimism:
It is a fact that atmospheric CO2 concentration over the course of the earths history was far greater than it is today. And if that is the case, then so were the oceans. It is a fact that the pH value of the oceans has dropped from 8.2 to 8.1. This is nothing more then a small drop in alkalinity because water does not become acidic until the pH drops under 7.0. Whether the current pH change from 8.2 to 8.1 is new and unique, or can also be greater and how it was in former times, is unknown because no long-term measurements are available.
2. What will be the effect on global climate of increasing amounts of human-made greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide in the air?
While the nations weather in individual years or even for periods of years has been hotter or cooler and drier or wetter than in other periods, the new study shows that over the last century there has been no trend in one direction or another.
Actions speak louder than words and the message is disheartening Heres a rhetorical question: If youre holding a seminar about the benefits of green technology strategy, should you really be giving away a gas card as one of the incentives to sign up? I thought not. For shame!
Yet to date no empirical, theoretical or numerical method, complex or simple, has yet successfully specified mechanistically either how the heat generated by anthropogenic greenhouse-gas enrichment of the atmosphere has reached the deep ocean without much altering the heat content of the intervening near-surface strata or how the heat from the bottom of the ocean may eventually re-emerge to perturb the near-surface climate conditions that are relevant to land-based life on Earth.
In the new "cold war" I stand on the side of Russia
We already have Climate Audit, but now it looks like we may be getting ?Climate Scientists on Trial?. Here?s a site you?ll want to subscribe to, bookmark ? or at least visit on a regular basis:
Good News For Polar Bears Is Bad News for Global Warming Alarmists
The petrochemical engineer was saying that we had no evidence that fossil fuels caused harm to the planet, turning his point semantically into something equivalent in decision making to the statement that we had evidence that fossil fuels did not harm. He made the mistake of saying that Stern was recommending useless insurance, causing me to jump to ask him if he had car, health, and other insurance for events that did not take plane, that sort of argument.
Fred L Smith Jr. (fsmith@cei.org) is President and Founder of CEI. William Yeatman (wyeatman@cei.org) is an energy policy analyst at CEI.
Fonte warns against the "globalista" technique of international norm setting, whereby self-selected, transnational elites fashion rules of conduct through multilateral negotiations, which are then carried down to the nation-state level to be rubber-stamped by pliant parliaments. This model is actually not far from current European Union (E.U.) governance practices. U.K. Prime Ministers Gordon Brown and David Cameron, for example, have both estimated that approximately 50% of significant parliamentary actions involving economic policy simply ratify, without possibility of amending or rejecting, what E.U. bureaucrats or diplomats in Brussels have already decided.
c) The 17% wage gap between Asian and white men (in favor of Asian men) is exactly the same as the 17% overall gender wage gap in 2014.
"Kind of tragic, given that the global warming they feared never actually came to pass."
Only a carrier could trumpet $500 per gigabyte as a price cut:
William London and Deborah Schaeffer explore the influence of health information on individual behavior, noting accurate health information is often insufficient to promote behavioral changes without interventions addressing psychosocial and environmental influences on lifestyle. In addition, the widespread availability of health misinformation often leads people to make bad choices, they observe.
Moreover, this estimate is undoubtedly too optimistic. Wind frequently does not blow when we need it. For example, as the BBC reported, the cold weather on December 21, 2010, was typical of a prolonged cold front, with high-pressure areas and little wind. Whereas wind power, on average, supplies 5% of the UKs electricity, its share fell to just 0.04% that day. With demand understandably peaking, other sources, such as coal and gas, had to fill the gap.
Nevertheless, it is fairly easy to show that natural cycles are indeed involved in not only regional changes, but "global warming" as well.
As Albert Einstein once said, a good theory predicts things in advance anda bad theory needs additional adjustments after each new discovery. The problem with the anthropogenic warming theory is: it cannot sustain anything new. For every new and unexpected climate or weather trend aspecial sub-theory must be developed, and it doesnt matter if they often completely contradict each other.
Anyone who'd like to argue that the world is experiencing a "new normal" with respect to tropical cyclones is simply mistaken. Over the past 4 years, the world is actually in the midst of a very low period in tropical cyclone landfalls -- at least as measured over the past 43 years.
Figure 5 illustrates the annual Indian Ocean Sea Level from 1993 to 2007. From 1999 to 2007, Indian Ocean Sea Level appears to have increased exponentially, but a look at the smoothed data in Figure 4 reveals that the rise has ended. http://i33.tinypic.com/9kpm39.jpg Figure 5
The point here is that Die Zeit is just too fanatic and caught up in AGW dogmatism, and thus cannot be taken seriously as an objective source of any kind.
Free speech has never been more comprehensively, aggressively and dangerously threatened than it is now. Todays attack is an attack on the theory of freedom of speech on the desirability of free speech and indeed on the very possibility of free speech.
dishonest presentations of model results by individual authors and by IPCC
Uggh: We are NOT in a Great Green Race with China. So silly.
It is hard for me to believe that Hansen did not know this, and yet he went ahead with his paper. This must be true because Hansen has published papers on the Palmer Drought Index and future warming. Administrator Bolden is obligated to investigate the ethics of publishing a paper that the Director of the GISS laboratory knew could not pass the most simple test of hypothesis.
A 50 per cent RET will put jobs and growth at risk, she said. Modelling undertaken last year by Deloitte Access Economics showed the existing RET pushed up electricity prices, costing the economy up to $28billion and a net loss of 5000 jobs, she said.
Fourth and finally, the president asserted his willingness to act on behalf of human dignity, which he declared to be a matter of national security. Hearkening back to his first point though, the question remains whether it is a "core" interest. If so, how then would this be any different than George W. Bush's "freedom agenda," which was centered on the promotion of human dignity and liberty? If it is not core, would we be willing to intervene to support it without a coalition? One has to consider the ongoing situation in Syria when dissecting the logic of this point.
Therefore, Congress intended for EPA to regulate greenhouse gases.
Where Mann situates the "Obamians" within contemporary domestic politics, Sanger distills the president's use of military into one pillar of an Obama doctrine:
Unlike the administration reaction to the Gulf oil spill last year, President Obama and Secretary of Energy Steven Chu have reiterated their support for nuclear power even in the face of the unfolding disaster in Japan, an encouraging sign. Obama and Chu could go one step better, though, and give a major address when the Japan crisis is over, calmly laying out all the facts and making the case to carry on.
(Note: The article started out by saying record low temperatures. Then it switched to coldest temperatures of the year. I dont know which statement is true. Either way, it certainly doesn??t look like ???global warming.??)
House Science Committee Chairman Smith has expressed a commitment to look into concerns that the real purpose of NOAA's report was to push President Obama's political agenda.
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JC comment: the detection of the long-term signal from anthropogenic forcing was detected in the AR4 basically for the period 1970 or 1980 to 2000, without account for this: because on decadal time scales anthropogenic effects may be nonmonotonic, regionally dependent, and/or convolved with natural variability .
These include the often poor representation of El Nio variability in global
We have warm, humid area over us now, with many dew points at 60F and above....that is why it feels kind of sticky.
As Mr. Bast explains in his blog post , the idea Heartland lost nearly $1 million in donations is false: Most of the donors who have said they wont continue to support us have agreed to fund new or existing groups that will continue our work; some already contributed this year before their announcements; and others had indicated they would not fund us even before the billboard controversy. We have now raised considerably more from current and new donors than we may have lost due to the controversy.
the atmosphere. I don't think the evidence is definitive, but it certainly casts doubt as to whether we really know what is going on. I always thought it a bit odd that people would search for the causes of changing temperatures without first checking out the sun, sortof like walking in a room that is too hot and trying to fix it without first checking the thermostat. This is particularly true given new evidence that other planets are warming , presumably due to solar activity (unless, of course, it's an Exxon plot).
Seabra et al . further state that "habitat heterogeneity as determined by surface orientation and, to a lesser extent, height on the shore may provide thermal refugia allowing species to occupy habitats apparently inhospitable when considering only average temperatures," and they state that "this may be important for understanding range shifts contrary to global warming predictions (e.g. Lima et al ., 2007a, 2009; Hilbish et al ., 2010)." Thus, they emphasize once again that "thermal heterogeneity within habitats must be fully understood in order to interpret patterns of biogeographic response to climate change." And if that is done correctly, it would appear that the "doom-and-gloom" predictions of the world's climate alarmists, as regards species extinctions in a warming world, may in reality be not all that "doomy and gloomy."
The campaign against The Australian gets under the editors skin and Chris Mitchell and others are right to protest that they have been mislabeled. But by putting so much effort into claiming they really truly do believe in Climate Change theyve fallen into the Orwellian trap of stating the blindingly obvious, as well as playing on the enemies turf... its like saying Im not four headed monster, or Im not an alcoholic. (So youre just a three headed, heavy drinker, with a problem on weekends right?)
Ethanol is a versatile fuel. And the benefits are easy to recognize when you think about it. . . . Ethanol is good for our rural communities. It's good economic development for rural America. . . . Ethanol is good for the environment. . . . thanol's good for drivers. . . . Ethanol's good for the whole country.
In fact, the power was still off for hundreds of thousands of households in North Carolina, and forecasters warned that black ice was setting in on roads in the western part of the Triangle.
While soundly endorsing New Delhi's bid for a permanent seat on the UN Security Council, the American President stated that "with increased power comes increased responsibility." President Obama asked for Indian collaboration in the fields of nuclear non-proliferation, climate change, freedom, human rights and democracy. Stating that India has often shied away from dealing with these issues, President Obama's words were directed at the Indian policy elite.
In order to reduce the risk of expanded nuclear power leading to the proliferation of nuclear weapons, the report recommended giving countries that forego "proliferation-risky" enrichment and reprocessing activities a preferred position to receive nuclear fuel and waste management services from nations that possess the full range of nuclear processing capacity.
The weather played an April Fools Day prank on Moscow residents Monday, bringing fresh snow to the Russian capital instead of long-awaited sunshine.
Even if I have it all wrong and these scientists had some good reason to mislead us (instead of making a strong case with real data) I think disseminating the truth is still the safest bet by far.
In the meantime, we look for Rep. Henry Waxman to reprise the level of outrage he displayed over Abramoff to prove it was also not political and come down hard on the practice he so aggressively condemned and pursued, demanding preservation of records, threatening subpoenas, the whole works. With our request, that's essentially what we've done, and we'd appreciate the company. You too, NPR.
U.S. sees 2,232nd consecutive days without being hit by major hurricane ???shatters?? previous streak set in 1906 Prof. Pielke Jr.: ???Since there won??t be any intense hurricanes before next summer, the record will be shattered, with the days between intense hurricane landfalls likely to exceed 2,500 days??
Agreement signed at Stockholm and Washington November 23 and December 6, 2005; entered into force December 6, 2005.
test-day disaster doesn't ruin a semester. Some teachers, students and
Lamb, Christina. "Chopping Down Rainforest Myths," Financial Times, January 8, 1992, p. 47.
They only make one dismissive comment about Thornthwaite?s work.
TAPS was completed in 1978. It has carried almost 17 billion barrels of oil to energy-thirsty American markets. Its a technological and environmental marvel and a critical component of Americas energy infrastructure. Its been a resounding success for this country, and for my state. Its the engine of growth for Alaskas economy, and has proved the safest and most environmentally responsible way to transport oil, is through a pipeline.
Detailed addenda accompanying ITSSD FOIA requests filed with EPA and DOC-NOAA during March May 2014 strongly suggest that the peer review science processes EPA and DOC-NOAA had employed in vetting the USGCRP and other federal and IPCC agency assessments supporting the EPAs Endangerment Findings did not comply with U.S. law. In other words, such peer review processes did not satisfy Information Quality Act and relevant OMB, EPA and DOC-NOAA implementing IQA guidelines standards applicable to highly influential scientific assessments (HISAs).
Arizona's Ugly but Necessary Immigration Law
DDT can be harmful if used in excess, but application of DDT has also saved many trees from insect infestations and may be partly responsible for an increase in bird populations. Starting in the late "40s, it was sprayed on elm trees to successfully stave off predatory beetles spreading Dutch Elm disease. After DDT was banned, the U.S. population of elm trees fell by more than half, and many American towns have few of the elms that once lined their streets. DDT also saved Oregon's "old-growth" Douglas fir trees, home for the celebrated spotted owl, from devastation by tussock moths in 1974.
General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler all have come begging at the federal trough for a series of bailouts. In recent weeks, Democrats have made it clear what they will demand in exchange for the bailout cash: more attention to fuel-efficient cars, fewer gas guzzlers, more research into alternative-fuel-powered cars, and other green efforts.
( comment to the IHTs Welcome to the new nuclear era )
If thats what a cleaner, greener world looks like, Id rather have it brown and dirty, thank you!
The draft bill would force tough emission cuts on a fast schedule. This haste flies in the face of a great deal of economic analysis of how GHG reductions should be timed in order to get the most benefit from a given expenditure of resources. That analysis teaches that, for carbon dioxide (CO2) controls, "a more gradual departure from the baseline is preferable to a more rapid departure." Yet, in this respect, ACESA's controls are more abrupt than those of even President Obama's cap-and-trade plan.
Between 1989 and 2010, Congress rejected nearly 700 cap-tax-and-trade and similar bills that their proponents claimed would control Earth's perpetually fickle climate and weather. So even as real world crises erupt, President Obama is using executive fiats and regulations to impose his anti-hydrocarbon agenda, slash America's fossil fuel use, bankrupt coal and utility companies, make electricity prices skyrocket, and "fundamentally transform" our economic, social, legal and constitutional system.
Beyond direct taxes is the hidden tax of federal regulations. This includes reformulated gasoline (RFG), a specialized blend required by federal law in nine major metropolitan areas. RFG currently costs nearly 15 cents per gallon more than already pricey conventional gasoline.
Over the past few years, Arctic has shown considerable reduction in sea ice levels due to global warming. However, Antarctica has cooled and has even gained some ice recently . A new study suggests that ocean circulation can explain why the polar regions have different reactions towards rise in earths temperature.
It is worth pointing out that the Index looked much worse for Al Gore back in May when the UAH graph showed its lowest temperature in at least eight years. Since May, the temperatures have been slowly ticking up, but are still lower than when Al Gore released An Inconvenient Truth, which just underscores the decline (or flattening off) of the globabally averaged temperatures in the past ten years. Even with a six month increase in temperatures Al Gore is still in negative territory.
This view was confirmed by Charles E.P. Brooks (1888-1957) in the Compendium of Meteorology (1951, American Meteorological Society ) who stated that the idea that CO2 could alter the climate "was never widely accepted and was abandoned when it was found that all the long-wave radiation absorbed by CO2 is absorbed by water vapor."
Tim Pawlenty: Also a runner-up in the veepstakes, Pawlenty is the rare Republican who can talk about winning in a blue state without ceding his conservative credentials. Call him the Un-Arnold of the GOP.
Only seven minutes long, this eye-opening video is well-worth watching.
To Judith Curry's credit, she is not eager to sue.
Is that an argument worth a Nobel prize winner? Brian Josephson, Chu's Nobel colleague, might add that the future fire in your house would be started by telekinesis. Well, what a sane person would do in this context?
They have managed to get committed environmentalists appointed to key congressional committees and regulatory positions. They have a president in the White House who agrees on the broad contours of their agenda. They have already won increased fuel economy regulations, restrictions on drilling for oil and gas in the West, and billions of dollars of subsidies for wind and solar power.
Now take a look at Figure 2. Is the warming of the 20th century really unprecendented as Mann claims? Why was it as warm 1000 years ago as it is today? Now comes one of the highlights of the interview:
Our interest is, or should be, a free, democratic and prosperous society. That is the reason why we have to stand up against all attempts to undermine it. We should be prepared to adapt to all kinds of future climate changes (including cooling) but we should never accept losing our freedom.