Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
On the American side, there is certainly no shortage of will and vision. Our two authors themselves were instrumental in forcing Europeans to look beyond Brussels sandbox politics and leading the drive for a successful enlargement of NATO. In the process of preaching a gospel of "broader and farther is always better," though, they elevated enlargement to the rank of a Kantian categorical imperative and by the same token lost sight of the Hobbesian iron law known in the jargon of political science as the security dilemma. Simply put: however defensive in intent, any actor's move to increase its security always runs the risk of being perceived as an offensive move by another actor.5
To reach the multimeter levels projected for 2100 by RV requires large positive accelerations that are one to two orders of magnitude greater than those yet observed in sea-level data.
Alex Jones Prison Planet.com Dearth Of Sunspot Activity To Herald New Ice Age? A top observatory that has been measuring sun cycles for over 200 years predicts that global temperatures will drop by two degrees over the next two decades as solar activity grinds to a halt and the planet drastically cools down, potentially heralding the onset of a new ice age. While the mass media, Al Gore and politicized bodies like the IPCC scaremonger about the perils of global warming and demand the poor and middle class pay CO2 taxes, both hard scientific data and circumstantial evidence points to a clear cooling trend.
Above all, it reflects a conviction that alarmists have a right to control our energy use, lives, livelihoods and living standards, with no transparency and no accountability for mistakes they make or damage they inflict on disfavored industries and families. And they are pursuing this agenda despite global warming again being dead last in the latest Gallup poll of 15 issues of greatest concern to Americans: only 25% say they worry about it "a great deal," despite steady hysteria; 24% are "not at all" worried about the climate. By comparison, 46% percent worry a great deal about the size and power of the federal government.
American Products. American Power. educates Americans on the importance of domestic energy production and the hundreds and hundreds of products that are made with American power. Our goal is to not only create awareness, but also mobilize Americans against regulation that fail to properly balance the costs and the benefits, thereby stifling innovation and economic growth.
OIRA seems to have little understanding of the nature of regulation and how it might be disciplined. By "discipline," it should be understood, we are not asserting that regulations are "good" or "bad," but rather that OIRA ensure that this question is addressed. To see how badly OIRA has missed this point, consider how its approach would fare if applied to OMB's major task of reviewing government spending.
To condemn the poorest of India?s poor to continuing poverty is to condemn many to an untimely death. Mr. Modi is right to have no more to do with such murderous nonsense. It is time to put an end to climate summits. On the evidence, they are not needed.
In his first year in office President Obama has presided over an administration that has been more hostile to the development of nuclear energy than any of his predecessors. This week, forced by economic realities, he has begun to resurrect the nuclear energy program he and his environmental supporters have long demonized. These are but initial steps - more are needed.
Too many are intimidated by the CTBS cult of expertise. Citizens of a democracy cannot afford to leave important decisions to persons unknown, for reasons that are too technical for laymen to comprehend.
Chimalaya has an article Ready or not: Can Bangladesh cope with climate change? Excerpts:
Some authors (e.g. E. O. Wilson) went as far as to suggest that ?humans are bringing about a holocaust for the Earth?s other species.?
Climate policy that is designed to mitigate the human impact on regional climate by focusing only on the emissions of CO 2 is seriously incomplete unless these other first-order human climate forcings are included, or complementary policies for these other human climate forcings are developed. Moreover, it is important to recognize that climate policy and energy policy, while having overlaps, are distinctly different topics with different mitigation and adaptation options.
In its own way, progressive ideology is just as vital to the modern 1199 as Medicaid revenues. Like other interest groups that rely on ideological incentives to enhance solidarity, 1199 must exaggerate threats to keep members engaged. Without uncompromising rhetoric and a sense of perpetual crisis, the union would risk seeing enthusiasm dwindle.
County board hires former Rep. Hassert as lobbyist:
The committee found the video "without merit" and recommended that it not be used.
America's Businesses Get It: Immigration is Good
So far I have identified six different versions of the De Bilt series: GISS raw, GISS adjusted, GHCN raw, GHCN adjusted, KNMI and Labrijn (the latter emailed to me by Hans, who obtained it from the authors.) GHCN raw and Labrijn are the only versions that go back to 1706; the two GISS versions begin in 1881; the GHCN adjusted version in 1851 and the KNMI version in 1901. Four versions extend up-to-date, but the GHCN adjusted ends in 1991 for some inexplicable reason and the Labrijn version in 2000. The Labrijn and KNMI versions are pretty much identical for their period of overlap (1901-2000) and the GHCN and GISS raw versions are essentially identical for their period of overlap (1881-2006).
He went to La Martiniere, a boarding school for the Indian upper middle classes. Cricket is an obsession and his website devotes a whole section to his achievements, detailing such landmarks as his 300th wicket.
Rural American jobs threatened by Obama forest plan
For starters, establishing GHG emission standards for new motor vehicles would by definition make CO 2 a CAA-regulated air pollutant. As such, CO 2 wouldautomatically besubject to regulation under the Acts Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) pre-construction permitting program.Under the CAA, any firm that plans to build a new major stationry source, or modify an existing source in a way that would significantly increase emissions, must first obtain a PSD permit from EPA or a state environmental agency.
"John Pappas, executive director of the Poker Players Alliance, has advised that the action group for the legalisation of online poker is to change its strategy in Washington state, lobbying lawmakers to change the state's draconian anti-online gambling laws rather than fight cases through the courts."
Quoting an essay in the American Outlook (Summer 2000), he noted, "But to the Federal government, the greatest threat is something far different. As Warren Christopher assured his audience in May 1996 at Stanford University, the main threat is climate change produced by the burning of fuels ."
If we take the HacCRUT3 instrumental temperature record for the Northern Hemisphere and tack it on to a recent Northern Hemisphere climate reconstruction ( Ljungqvist, 2009 ) and then scale the GISP2 climate reconstruction ( Alley, 2004 ) to fit the instrumental record and reconstruction, we can see that the modern climate is actually rather cool relative to the rest of the Holocene??
This is a good question. It is a still incompletely understood mix of a variety of human caused radiative forcings (e.g. CO2, methane and several other greenhouse gases, land use/land cover change,black carbon (soot), sulphates, and other aerosols) and natual climate variations.
After all, the pols know that both party bases will be there, with predictable results and that what they need to do is persuade the persuadables. This means a sharper focus on the big issues that concern them and the country, from budgets to energy and climate change to education and jobs, and more moderate rhetoric, since fiery words will turn away moderate voters.
The four researchers?? reconstructed record of intense hurricanes revealed that the frequency of these ???high-magnitude?? events ???peaked near 6 storms per century between 2800 and 2300 years ago.?? Thereafter, it suggests that they were ???relatively rare?? with ???about 0-3 storms per century occurring between 1900 and 1600 years ago,?? after which they state that these super-storms exhibited a marked decline , which ???began around 600 years ago?? and has persisted through the present with ???below average frequency over the last 150 years when compared to the preceding five millennia.??
The computers are taught that the temperature rise during the last hundred years is due mostly to the greenhouse effect. If the truth is that only about 10% of the present warming is caused by the greenhouse effect, the computer code must be rewritten
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Going back even further there is strong evidence for dramatic changes obtained the synthesis of ice core isotope proxy records for temperature showing that there was a warm period, much warmer than Antarctic is today, between 11,500 and 9000 years ago, a period sometimes referred to as the early Holocene climatic optimum. The ice sheets responded to this warmth. Analysis of grounding lines in the marine-based parts of the West Antarctic ice sheet, at the head of the Ross Ice Shelf, show that the sheets started to retreat to their current position from a position close to the edge of the current Ross Ice Shelf 7000 9000 years ago.
But, in SK they generate about 40% of this potential or 60 megawatts (see Saskatchewan Legislature Hansard, January 2007, page 794)
4 Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?
When equating energy flux density, climate science thus chose the branch of making Sunshine way too cold (-18 degrees C). Such freezing cold sunshine is at odds with the observation and fact that Sunshine creates the water cycle by both melting and evaporating H2O. Instead of reconsidering whether or not the numbers on paper were correct, climate science chose to add some more numbers on paper called the greenhouse effect in order to bump up the temperature from -18 degrees C to the temperature of the air near the ground, which is +15 degrees C on average.
"For now, energy is carbon based because it is cheaper than anything else and it makes no sense to decarbonise unless everybody is doing it; it's lunacy to go it alone when China is building a new coal power station every week," he said, speaking at the LGA annual conference.
I clearly remember the tone of articles on global warming during the 1980s. Most of the concern came out of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) on the ozone layer. By the way, this was during the new era of climate scientists working with high-grade graphic computer modelling.
Where is this likely taking us? President Obama has long promised to fundamentally transform the U.S. economy and ensure that electricity prices necessarily skyrocket. His edicts are doing precisely that. And now Christiana Figueres, the UNs chief climate change official, has declared that her unelected bureaucrats are undertaking probably the most difficult task we have ever given ourselves , which is to intentionally transform the economic development model. Her incredible admission underscores what another high-ranking IPCC official said several years ago: Climate policy has almost nothing to do anymore with environmental protection. The next world climate summit is actually an economy summit, during which the distribution of the worlds resources will be negotiated.
project could do a lot to raise awareness of threats to the reef from climate
What this implies is that even if CO2 emissions are responsible for all the warming of the past 30 yearsa big ifwe may reasonably expect about 1.7 degrees Celsius of warming over the next hundred years.
A paper under open review for Climate of the Past reconstructs summer ] temperatures in Sweden and Finland over the past ~2,200 years and finds temperatures during the Medieval Warm Period 1,000 years ago and the Roman Warm Period 2,000 years ago were about the same as at the end of the 20th century. The paper also shows excellent agreement between the instrumental record since 1800 and the proxy reconstruction, unlike Michael Mann??s hockey stick ???trick to hide the decline?? in proxy temperatures after 1960. The paper adds to the published papers of over 1,200 scientists finding non-hockey sticks demonstrating that the Medieval Warm Period was global and as warm or warmer than the present.
In the May 2000 issue of Reason Magazine, award-winning science correspondent Ronald Bailey wrote an excellent article titled "Earth Day, Then and Now" to provide some historical perspective on the 30th anniversary of Earth Day. In that article, Bailey noted that around the time of the first Earth Day, and in the years following, there was a "torrent of apocalyptic predictions" and many of those predictions were featured in his Reason article. Well, it's now the 46th anniversary of Earth Day, and a good time to ask the question again that Bailey asked 16 years ago: How accurate were the predictions made around the time of the first Earth Day in 1970? The answer: "The prophets of doom were not simply wrong, but spectacularly wrong," according to Bailey. Here are 18 examples of the spectacularly wrong predictions made around 1970 when the "green holy day" (aka Earth Day) started:
Even if these women do exist, which is highly doubtful, EPA could not identify the supposed harm posed by U.S. power plants. EPA's modeling demonstrates that the 99th percentile pregnancy fish consumer (a hypothetical woman who eats almost 240 pounds of self-caught fish during pregnancy) would suffer a 0.8 IQ point loss in her fetus. But it is impossible to measure a fraction of an IQ point. That would be like using a cheap bathroom scale to measure one's weight to the hundredth of a pound.
This is why validating the predictions of any theory is so important to the progress of science. The best test of a theory is to see whether the predictions of that theory end up being correct. Unfortunately, we have no good way to rigorously test climate models in the context of the theory that global warming is manmade. While some climate modelers will claim that their models produce the same fingerprint of manmade warming as seen in nature, there really is no such fingerprint. This is because warming due to more carbon dioxide is, for all practical purposes, indistinguishable from warming due to, say, a natural increase in atmospheric water vapor.
It tells us so little while saying so much. The paper tells us, by the figures in Table 2, that sea levels could rise from anywhere between 300 mm and 2200 mm, but Table 3 tells us that, relevant to coastal planning the range could be from 120 mm to 1900 mm.
Further, the political downside to supporting the legislation is unambiguous. Americans are primarily concerned with jobs and the economy. Any significant effort spent on other legislation will reignite charges, originally hurled during the lengthy and unsuccessful health-care debate, that the White House and Democrats in Congress are out of touch with voters' needs.
Global warming activists call for policies to lower the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to their recommended level of 350 parts per million.
Dr. Sassan Saatchi of NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., put the critical role of these earth observing satellites into perspective. These detailed emissions estimates would not have been possible without the NASA satellites that helped us quantify forest cover change and forest carbon stocks, which are the two critical data sources for this work, he said.
Effects of Super-Elevated CO2 on Mint and Thyme
Today, the Environmental Protection Agency announced new rules for existing coal-fired power plants, a 30 percent reduction in allowable carbon dioxide emissions from power plants. The only way this will be possible will be by upgrading almost all combustion units, and the ultimate cost of the upgrades will make coal noncompetitive with much-less-expensive natural gasfired facilities.
If you've been following the global warming issue via this Report, one thing you can't have missed is that the satellite data in our monthly Earth Track segment show no warming since measurements began in 1979. Yet we hear that this year, last year, or next year is, was, or will be the hottest ever measured by ground-based thermometers.Here we look at a third source of temperature informationweather balloons. Launched simultaneously around the planet twice a day, they transmit pressure, temperature, and humidity conditions. The data they collect go into the dependable daily weather forecast. These data also tell us a lot about the accuracy of the long-range forecast of greenhouse warming.
Clearly we see that in 2009,two years after the 4AR had been issued in 2007, Schellnhuber was preaching the Himalayan 2035 glacier meltdown, even claiming he could calculate the melt very easily and that major rivers like the Yangtze, Ganges, Mekong, etc.would dry up. But just over 2 months later, the media found out that what had been very easy to calculate was a huge whopping error. The above video shows two clips: one on 19 January 2010 and one on 11 February 2010 that say the 2035 Himalayan ice melt was a huge blunder. Moreover, the 3SAT report at the 4:20 mark of the above videopoints out yet another whopping error made by the 2007 IPCC report:
Ed Feulner is founder of the Heritage Foundation. This piece originally appeared in The Washington Times.
"Toyota is recalling 1.53 million Lexus, Avalon and other models, mostly in the U.S. and Japan, for brake fluid and fuel pump problems, the latest in a string of quality lapses for the world's No. 1 automaker."
In a new report, computer expert E. Michael Smith and Certified Consulting Meteorologist Joseph D'Aleo discovered extensive manipulation of the temperature data by the U.S. government's two primary climate centers: the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) in Asheville, North Carolina and the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) at Columbia University in New York City. Smith and D'Aleo accuse these centers of manipulating temperature data to give the appearance of warmer temperatures than actually occurred by trimming the number and location of weather observation stations. The report is available online at http://icecap.us/images/uploads/NOAAroleinclimategate.pdf.
So I reached out to Patrick Muttart, former chief of staff to Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper. Muttart is perhaps the world's leading expert on working-class voters in English-speaking countries, having studied their behavior and attitudes not only in Canada but also in Britain, Australia, and America. He has found that in each country, working-class voters may form the base for successful center-left governments but are crucially responsible for the rise of center-right leaders like Harper, Australia's John Howard, and Margaret Thatcher.
If the greenhouse effect is so strong on Venus, why isnt the lapse rate much larger, and much larger than Earths, given the fact that the amount of CO2 decreases a lot between the surface and the height of 60km?
?unchanging? environment leads people to generate local explanations for coral
Plant stomata reconstructions (Kouwenberg et al., 2005, Finsinger and Wagner-Cremer, 2009) and contemporary chemical analyses (Beck, 2007) indicate that CO2 levels in the 1930s to early 1940s were in the 340 to 400 ppmv range and then declined sharply in the 1950??s. These findings have been rejected by the so-called scientific consensus because this fluctuation is not resolved in Antarctic ice cores. However, MacFarling Meure et al., 2006 found possible evidence of a mid-20th Century CO2 decline in the DE08 ice core??
In other words they are picked as being robust and reliable. Out of the nineteen, only thirteen have records back to 1934 and these are listed below with comparisons of this years temperatures with those of July 1934. The temperatures shown are the actual original readings, and not adjusted, homogenised or otherwise tampered with! (The original handwritten/typed monthly records for these can be accessed on the USHCN site here ).
Leaf water potential in plants subjected to drought, but grown at elevated CO2, was less negative than in their ambient CO2 grown counterparts ... Read More
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Ed Markey (D-CA) responded flippantly to Johnson's ANPR letter: "The A' in this document should stand for absurd.' ... This cynical step by EPA to announce an Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking' in the coming months should be seen for what it is: an "Aspirational Notice of Procrastinational Rulemaking'." Markey has no excuse for spouting such drivel. He understands full well the regulatory morass EPA could create if it followed his advice, because Peter Glaser explained it to him in testimony just two weeks ago.
Of particular concern to me, is the Bureaus decision of last June, to discard the statistical models that had been used to generate seasonal rainfall forecasts in favour of a general circulation model that has no predictive skill at all. I have documented the absence of skill in the general circulation model in a peer-reviewed paper recently published in the journal Atmospheric Research ( Volume 138, Pages 166-178 ).
The reality is far brighter. The costs of removing oil from the sands have gone down as new innovations have made it more economical. Peter Huber and Mark Mills, authors of the newly released book "The Bottomless Well," note that oil extraction from the Alberta sands is not "especially difficult or expensive."
Moderate progressives view the rejections of the Democrats from 1968 to 1984 as a sober lesson delivered by a sober populace. They view Americans today as wanting the same things economically that their parents and grandparents wanted from the New Deal: an active safety net that helps them move up in American life. In this view, Americans support Democrats when they use government to support and enhance middle-class values and aspirations. Moderate progressives believe Democrats got away from that heritage when they started to be perceived as worrying more about people who did not work than about those who did, as worrying more about criminals than the victims of crime, as worrying more about American aggression than about the freedom of the West.
First, why is "the existence of entanglement" not an observable? Well, take a two-spin Hilbert space, to pick an example. The states \(\ket{\uparrow\downarrow}\) and \(\ket{\downarrow\uparrow}\) are said to be non-entangled. So if there is an observable \(E\), a linear operator whose eigenvalues are \(0,1\) for non-entangled and entangled states, respectively, then both of the states I just wrote are the eigenstates with the eigenvalue \(E=0\).
Pershing also suggested U.S. financial support for the Green Climate Fund would not be a sticking point, because Paris puts pressure on industrial countries to "mobilize" $100 billion for the fund, not pay it all out of "public coffers."
And then there is a new breed of academics that are working at the interface of (physical) climate science and social science, trained in the paradigm of environmental studies. These academics have some understanding of the science of climate change. They mostly use the IPCC conclusions (imbuing them with even higher confidence than provided by the IPCC) as a starting point for their (policy, economic, sociological, psychological, political) analysis. As a result, their studies often get caught up in circular reasoning, such as the paper by Anderson and Bows. I find their arguments particularly peculiar in arguing that climate scientists and those working at the boundaries of climate science should dismiss economics.