Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
Homes in and near the forests become ashes, chimneys, and memories. Residents die in their homes or trying to flee the infernos. Firefighters perish trying to extinguish them.
"Well I don't know whether you've ever seen the South Park episode about Lemmiwinks the gerbil and Mister Slave. But basically they all re-enacted that journey on an epic scale. None of them ever came back."
"we are becoming more confident of mid-range figures." why not 'mid-range or lower?
Severe storms, floods, and agricultural losses may cost a great deal of money, but such extreme weather events and their resulting costs are dramatically declining as the Earth modestly warms. 20 Accordingly, EDFs asserted economic costs are actually economic benefits.
As you can see, only in the driest desert on earth will increasing CO 2 increase the back radiation. Water vapor is by far the strongest greenhouse gas, but it is nearly saturated at 10% humidity. At 10% humidity and above, no amount of CO 2 does anything. Most of the humidity on earth is in that area on the right where doubling CO 2 will do nothing to increase the long-wave radiation from the sky. Yet another CAGW fail.
they had no knowledge of these activities, Levey would show them the detailed
33 P. Reiter, From Shakespeare to Defoe: Malaria in England in the Little Ice Age, Emerging Infectious Diseases 6, in press (2000).
One of the most interesting and telling aspects of President Obama's disingenuous attempt to rebrand himself as a supporter of fossil fuels is that he never mentions coal. He doesn't even pretend.
Barry R. Bickmore, an associate professor of geological sciences at Brigham Young University, Utah, was the most recent to quote it in an op ed in the Deseret News of November 25 th 2010, entitled Global warming consensus matters, where he attacks Utah Senator Orin Hatch for challenging consensus claims.
Schmidt says that these efforts are a little misguided. He argues that it is difficult to attribute success or failure to any particular parameter because the inherent unpredictability of weather and climate is built into both the Earth system and the models. It doesn't suggest any solutions, he says.
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By steadfastly adhering to the false idea that solar input is freezing cold at -18 degrees C, and never questioning it, and never thinking about the real-time physics, they are forced to invent on paper a mechanism where something cold heats itself up with its own energy. Reality simply doesnt do this and we all know that. The input to the Earth is not -180C with the greenhouse effect amplifying it to +15 degrees C. The input to the Earth is +30 degrees C as a linear average, and this average is composed of a maximum of +121 degrees C, and the related flux input has enough strength to deposit an enormous amount of trapped energy in the latent heat of liquid and vaporous water, which the -180C input simply cant do. -18 degrees C input doesnt conserve the physicsnot without making up the greenhouse effect to make up the difference to what the Sun actually does with its real-time flux.
Brian Valentine, an engineer with the U.S. Department of Energy and scientific reviewer and consultant to the departments Office of Science for DOE National Laboratory-directed programs in computing, chemical, and climate science, argued, If about 100 million years of discernable and unequivocal Earthly climate evidence has demonstrated that the climate sensitivity to the doubling of CO2 concentration in the atmosphere cannot be any higher than the value of this quantity described by Monckton et al., then how much more evidence to we need?
President Obama and the Iron Law of Climate Change
Incorporating natural gas into the Clean Energy Dialogue with Canada fits with the president's approach, and could contribute to his energy and environmental legacy. It would be a positive counterpoint to the increasing acrimony surrounding the Keystone XL pipeline.
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December 29, 2011: A Record Year for Regulation
Renewable Energy: Lobbys Report More Fog Than Light
~Vice President Al GoreGannett News ServiceMarch 23, 1999, talking aboutEarth in the Balance
The first overarching question, of course, is what is meant by the global average surface temperature?? The National Research Council Report provides a definition as
We Can't Say For Sure That The 1929 Flood Was Caused By The Prohibition
A new HadSST3 version has been recently published. It starts the process of unwinding Folland??s erroneous Pearl Harbour bucket adjustment, an adjustment that has been embedded in HadSST for nearly 20 years.
Theres no conspiracy among editors, but theres not much courage either. No one wants to be pilloried among their peers so the threat of being called a denier , or a right wing extremist is enough to keep most editors in line. Bullying works at least in the short run. And this article by The Australian reveals how effective it is.
African Climate Change: 1900-2100
The UK Telegraph also recently reported on a cooling planet, quoting climate scientist Professor Anastasios Tsonis of the University of Wisconsin: We are already in a cooling trend , which I think will continue for the next 15 years at least. There is no doubt the warming of the 1980s and 1990s has stopped .
By contrast, $26 billion taken from taxpayers and given to wind, solar and biofuel energy projects via Department of Energy subsidies and loan guarantees since 2009 created only 2,298 permanent jobs, at a cost of $11.45 million per job, the Institute for Energy Research calculates, using DOE data.
The green Left continues to push the claim that the reason there's been no major action to cut carbon dioxide emissions is that some evil cabal quarterbacked by climate "denialists" who have a "hostility to science" has been blocking change. (By the way, that's exactly what New York Times columnist Paul Krugman claimed on June 9.)
That data show four glacial coolings each followed by an interglacial warming with atmospheric CO2 concentrations near their highest during the warmings and near their lowest during the coolings. In all cases, however, the temperature changes precede the CO2 changes by about 500 ??? 1,000 years. Each glacial cooling and interglacial warming cycle has a period of about 100,000 years, which corresponds to the periodic changes in the Earth??s elliptical orbit about the sun. Those increases and decreases in atmospheric CO2 occurred long before any significant human emission of CO2. And furthermore, the fact that they were preceded by the temperature changes means that the temperature changes are causing the CO2 changes and not the reverse. As oceans warm, they emit CO2, and as they cool they absorb it. Bubbles of CO2 are emitted from cold soda as it is poured into a warm glass, and soda is produced by dissolving CO2 into cold water.
Canaries and coal mines. The Arctic and the Antarctic. We will inevitably have to suffer the hysteria of the warmenistas if Arctic ice falls to a new low this summer, which looks possible. Of course, it tells us nothing about the attribution of the ice loss, which could be contributed to by a thousand other things as well as anthropogenic warming.
When it comes to Halloween these days, it seems that parents scare more easily than their children. For the past 15 years, I have checked the news as Halloween approaches. It is always full of warnings from health and safety officialdom that parents should check their children's collected candy for signs of tampering with nefarious intent. Here are just three examples I found with a 30 second Google search today. It's just as much hogwash as it was when I started.
The other significant coincidence that happened about this same time was that DuPont, a major CFC manufacturer, was poised to lose its patent on one of the most widely-used CFCs. Three Canadian investors who owned 25% of the company led the campaign to ban CFCs. DuPont initially fought the CFC phase out, but the company finally acquiesced when it had secured a patent on a CFC substitute. After all, billions of dollars were at stake.
The Met Office, using data generated by a 33million supercomputer, claims Britain can stop worrying about a big freeze this year because we could be in for a milder winter than in past years.
The sea surface temperature anomalies for the NINO3.4 region in the eastern equatorial Pacific (5S-5N, 170E-120E) are a commonly used index for the strength, frequency and duration of El Nio and La Nina events. We keep an eye on the sea surface temperatures there because El Nio and La Nia events are the primary cause of the yearly variations in global sea surface temperatures AND the primary cause of the long-term warming of global sea surface temperatures over the past 30 years. See the discussion of the East Pacific versus the Rest-of-the-World that follows.
In the October 2 document, Shukla argues that a RICO investigation would target only "corporations and organizations," not "individuals":
"The climate policies in the current draft energy bill would put the U.S. on a slippery slope to energy rationing if enacted," said CEI director of global warming policy Myron Ebell. "It looks more like a campaign document from Senators Kerry or Lieberman than the sensible policies we expect from Senator Domenici and other Senate conservatives."
The U.S. State Department has decided not to renominate Robert T. Watson for the chairmanship of the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, according to a story in the New York Times (April 2, 2002).
Mr. McGartland blasted yet another email: "With the endangerment finding nearly final, you need to move on to other issues and subjects. I don't want you to spend any additional EPA time on climate change. No papers, no research etc, at least until we see what EPA is going to do with Climate." Ideology? Nope, not here. Just us science folk. Honest.
U.S. President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama wave during the inaugural parade from the U.S. Capitol to the White House in Washington, January 21, 2013.
So of the predicted warming up to 6 degrees centigrade this century predicted by the most extreme alarmists, Al Gores little video had a flawed experiment to justify the insignificant first 20%, and a trust the computer models for the alarming bit.
Climate modelers choose parameter sets with offsetting errors in order to successfully hindcast the 20 th century air temperature. That means any correspondence between hindcast temperatures and observed temperatures is tendentious ??? the correspondence is deliberately built-in.
As of last week, the sea surface temperature anomalies in the NINO4 and NINO1+2 regions were still elevated, while the NINO3 and NINO3.4 regions have dropped out of El Nio conditions, where El Nio conditions are defined as sea surface temperature anomalies equal to or greater than +0.5 deg C.
Presently, the EU ETS is completing its Second Trading Period, which started in 2008 and lasts until December 2012; emission credits are given out for a sequence of several years at once. But the bloom is fading from the rose. In 2009, the European Commission called on the Obama administration to join with Europe in establishing a joint mandatory transatlantic carbon trading scheme based on the EU ETS system. But the proposal went nowhere, as the Obama administration's cap-and-trade emissions legislation was stymied in the U.S. Congress. There is no support for this type of environmental and energy legislation in the U.S. Congress among most Republicans, and little among Democrats. Similarly, recent international discussions between the major economic powers have resulted in little tangible progress on climate change policy.
If they can't, perhaps, as when the Whig Party hit a dead end, a new force will emerge to replace or challenge the Republican Party. But anyone expecting a quick or clean resolution of this turmoil will be sorely disappointed.
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EPA Narrowly Keeps Global Warming Authority in Close Senate Vote
The study goes on to say that black carbon effectively causes global warming too because it heats water droplets, melts clouds and ice, and reduces the thickness of cloud cover.
DOE Report Highlights Triumph, Trouble for Wind Power Sector
All possible were it not for the political wars that afflict the energy industry. Keep in mind the peculiarly American background to all energy-policy decisions, including those with important geopolitical aspects. The president of the United States and his Secretary of State believe that climate change, to quote Secretary Kerry, "is the world's most fearsome weapon of mass destruction." More fearsome than Iran's nukes might be or North Korea's nukes are; more fearsome than Assad's chemical weapons; and certainly more fearsome than the 845,000 Russian troops at the ready should Russians living in what Putin calls his "near abroad" be attacked by a mob egged on by imported Russian agitators.
There is also a writeup on this new paper at Livescience titled Cold Water Thrown on Antarctic Warming Predictions
Under the CPP, everything business owners, workers, families and communities strived for their entire lives will be at risk. Millions of workers will lose their jobs, leaving more families destitute and welfare dependent, their sense of self-worth destroyed. Many will have to choose between buying food and gasoline, paying the rent or mortgage, going to the doctor, giving to their church, or saving for retirement.
Another point I would like to note is the heavy weighting of Peninsula and open-ocean stations. Steigs reconstruction relied on a total of 5 stations in West Antarctica, 4 of which are located on the eastern and southern edges of the continent at the Ross Ice Shelf. The resolution of West Antarctic trends based on the ground stations alone is rather poor.
The global warming doomsday writers claim the ice sheets are melting catastrophically, and will cause a sudden rise in sea level of many metres. This ignores the mechanism of glacier flow which is by creep: glaciers are not melting from the surface down, nor are they sliding down an inclined plane lubricated by meltwater.
Environmentalists and left-leaning politicians need oil, coal and natural gas prices to be high in order to make green energy projects seem more economic than they actually are. Often governments do this by imposing taxes on fossil fuels or carbon dioxide emissions.
Five or six years ago it was consensus that greenhouse gas reductions of three percent annually were not realistic. But then emissions rose like never before and suddenly the IPCC claims that six percent is doable. Precisely in a phase when CO2 emissions are rising liker never before the optimism is suddenly growing that drastic savings are possible. All this just to keep the 2C story alive.
Repeating: The exercise is to project the data to the end of time period 23.
A hoax is a deceptive act intended to hoodwink people through deliberate misinformation, including factual omissions. My book is about the latter. (And by the way, it can be ordered through primary vendors, and is currently being featured on "new releases" tables at 200 major Barnes and Noble stores.)
I think that is particularly unproductive, and its reaching the stage where the farmers are becoming, through their association, almost irrelevant to the process, Mr Hazzard told ABC Radio.
But I didnt know just HOW warm, since our satellite data Extend back to only 2002. So, I decided to download the NOAA SST data from their website WHICH DO NOT include the AMSR-E measurements to do a more quantitative comparison. (The NOAA oceanic data They record there seem to be based upon the UK Climatic Research Unit data, but I could not tell Whether Those are indeed the Data That were the basis for NOAA's record high temperature announcement).
Cooperation is part of the deceit of taqia, dawa and kitman with the intent of destroying the other when an advantage is achieved. Muslims are constitutionally fanatically intolerant and xenophobic, and consider infidels haram (unclean and forbidden), so how do you cooperate with something you intend to destroy orsubjugate. The Koran has no place for other religions. The Koran is the sourcebookand it is not subject to modification in the eyes of observant Muslims.
Recent high European temperatures (about 5 F higher than the normal long run trend) definitely caused glaciers to recede. But last winter also delivered an increase in the number of atmospheric high pressure systems over the Alps, which caused a significant drop in snow flurries; consequently glaciers were not replenished.
Other European countries planning to invest in America due to low energy prices include Austrian steelmaker Voestalpine VLPNY -0.41% (an iron-ore processing plant in Texas), South Africa-bases Sasol SSL -1.09% (a natural gas to diesel conversion plant in Louisiana) and France's Vallourec VLOWY -0.56% (steel production in Ohio).
For starters, President Obama did not "try to pass a cap-and-trade law." In fact, the "cap-and-trade" in question never made it out of the democrat party caucus in the Senate. More to the point, the President effectively killed the effort by punting on a meeting about the measure with Senate democrat leadership. Also, while it's true that opposition to the bill was bipartisan, there was never a filibuster. Again, the bill never made it out of the democrat Senate caucus, due to intra-party opposition. Republicans didn't have to lift a finger. So Chait's history is totally wrong (again).
And so they didn't, making CT the mother of all baloney storms (CTBS) extending back decades before 2016. But the shenanigans of 2016 has made clear that something ugly has been done to us in science by people trapped in a political plane, incapable of comprehending that science is orthogonal to it.
And yet the EPA and White House regulatory agenda, regulatory onslaught and horse-blinder definition of health, welfare and justice ignore these realities and ensure that this unconscionable situation will only get worse. In fact, the only welfare EPA's rules will ensure is the expansion of our welfare rolls, unemployment lines and already record-setting food stamp programs.
Last January another study concluded that the pipeline would have minimal impact on climate not because there's no scientific evidence that any pipeline would but rather because the Canadian oil sands will be developed anyway. (Isn't it remarkable that an expensive study was needed to figure that out?) Even if the pipeline isn't built, Canada certainly won't leave those resources in the ground. Instead, they will be sent to an energy-eager China.
Wealth of the surrounding society tends to draw the major brushstrokes of a newborn's future life. It makes a huge difference whether humanity uses its assets to achieve progress, or whether it strives to stop and reverse it, essentially sacrificing the less fortunate to the climate gods.
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A new study reveals that ?understanding the dynamical and thermodynamical mechanisms that drive the tropical atmosphere is required both to alleviate OAGCM errors and to describe the full extent of the atmosphere?s role in tropical variability, such as ENSO? Read More
The Science story shows that when a bandwagon climate scientist like Andreas Schmittner is telling you that the dangers from rising levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide are expected to be less than predicted you can be sure the game is up for global warming alarmism.
From our comparison between satellite observations and GCM simulations of the planetary albedo, we find that models and measurements differ in many respects. GCM-derived albedos are almost consistently higher than the values observed by satellites. For the period with global ERBE data (February 1985May 1989), the modelled global mean albedo is on average 0.009 above the measured global mean. This corresponds to a difference in radiative flux of almost 3 Wm-2. The mean level of global mean albedo according to CERES (March 2000 December 2003) is an additional ca. 0.012 below the ERBE mean, corresponding to an additional flux difference of ca. 4 Wm-2.
A highly successful trip from the Indian and American point of view, this does not mean that all policy disagreements in the relationship have disappeared. Differing views on relations with Pakistan, India's policy on Iran, climate change and protectionism still remain.
AGs' motives questioned as Exxon climate change "fraud' probe recalls tobacco windfall
Teri brought him to worldwide attention and he was a lead author with the IPCC before becoming chairman in 2002.
But the draft document, one of many floating around the conference, gives a glimpse into the long-term vision some nations hold for the creation of an international legal framework on climate change.
They found that temperatures between 1630 and 1840 cooled, then warming in the Arctic began just after the end of the Little Ice Age and 30 years before the start of the Industrial Age.
Congressional leaders and the White House support stricter mileage requirements for new cars.
The Little Ice Age (LIA) showed that the present warming trend began prior to the major impact of the Industrial Revolution. Significant production of CO2 by humans began only after World War II.
In the oceans, major climate warming and cooling and pH (ocean pH about 8.1) changes are a fact of life, whether it is over a few years as in an El Nio, over decades as in the Pacific Decadal Oscillation or the North Atlantic Oscillation, or over a few hours as a burst of upwelling (pH about 7.59-7.8) appears or a storm brings acidic rainwater (pH about 4-6) into an estuary.
Tackling nearly 100% of todays malaria problem would cost just one-sixtieth of the price of the Kyoto Protocol. Put another way, for each person saved from malaria by cutting CO2 emissions, direct malaria policies could have saved 36,000. Of course, carbon cuts are not designed only to tackle malaria. But, for every problem that global warming will exacerbate hurricanes, hunger, flooding we could achieve tremendously more through cheaper, direct policies today.
Jane Jamison is publisher of the conservative news/commentary blog, UNCOVERAGE.net.
Right now we are near the solar minimum, but neutron counts are still increasing. The current science says that if we had passed solar minimum, neutron counts should be decreasing.
Implementing EPA's regulatory agenda will inflict severe economic dislocations and send shock waves through America's factories, farmlands and families. Far from improving our health and welfare they will make our economy, unemployment, living standards, health and welfare even worse.
A different recommendation comes from overseas. British parliamentarian Douglas Carswell, in a Telegraph blogpost, interprets the Sept. 8 victory of Tony Abbott and his center-right Liberal party in Australia as a vote for full-throated conservatism.
"Green slime" doesn't just describe algae-based biofuels. It also describes the entire D.C.-mandated biofuel system. About the only thing really Green about it is the billions of dollars taken from taxpayers and consumers, and funneled to politicians, who dole the cash out to friendly constituents, who then return some of it as campaign contributions, to get the pols reelected, to perpetuate the gravy train.
Many parts of Mann's books draw on his close and perceptive reading of President Obama's key policy speeches (an interesting contrast with Sanger's critique that Obama has lacked a consistent message). One theme he discerns is