Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
Any regulation seeking to limit the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the Earth's atmosphere deliberately and deceptively ignores facts that anyone can understand. Bonner spelled out the basic scientific facts, but it is essential to keep in mind that CO2 is essential to all life on Earth, providing the "food" that all vegetation depends.
President Obamas Inaugural Speech: New Heat on Warming?
Between 1998 and 2012 the global economy more than doubled in sizeto some $71 trillion in GDP from $30 trillion. Thats the good news. Over the same period the world pumped more than 100 billion tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. That is supposedly the bad news. Yet global surface temperatures have remained essentially flat. Thats the mystery: If emitting CO2 into the atmosphere causes global warming, why hasnt the globe been warming?
According to Mydlarz et al ., "taken together, these studies suggest an unexpected degree of resilience under adverse environmental conditions." Indeed, they say "it is clear from the data presented in this paper that the sea fan aggressively combats infection in the gorgonian- Aspergillus pathosystem and exhibits the capability for resilience against multiple challenges," not the least of which, we might add, would be further global warming (if the planet ever starts to warm again after its hiatus of the past decade or so). References
If this doesn't prompt you to lobby your MP to have "Canada's Almost New Government" do away with these kangaroo courts, nothing will.
This ensemble output suggest that it isi probable that the temperatures will be warmer than currently (they are very cold now), but there is a lot of uncertainty. Precipitation should be light, but a few ensemble members are fairly wet. Winds are modest.
Jo Nova has an entertaining article describing the excellent correlation between increasing US Postal charges and rising temperatures through the 20th Century. Joanne humorously claims a causal relation and thus excellently lampoons the IPCCs ridiculous assertion that a similar correlation between rising levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide and rising world temperatures proves that carbon dioxide is causing the temperature rise. Actually, even the claim of a correlation is disputed, since temperatures have gone both up and down while CO 2 rises quite steadily. Click for a larger version.
Even so, the FTA represents a significant milestone in the economic relationship between the two signatories. And President Xi played his part perfectly. In his address to the Australian Parliament, he offered the FTA as a sign of China's friendship and evidence of the economic opportunity its rise is creating for neighbours. Expressing hope that the strategic partnership between the two countries will become a comprehensive one, President Xi urged Australia to pursue a more independent strategic direction. Although Parliament knew what this means moving away from America, if not yet closer to China the point was nevertheless respectfully posed.
A New Theory of Everything: Reality Emerges from Cosmic Copyright Law (SciAm)
Even though it is stylish to excoriate conservatives with toothpaste-commercial moralizing about science, there is no science in the toothpaste-commercial science consensus picture. There is only politics, money, and power. The political events of 2016 make plain that the climate arena is a side show in a much larger political struggle that has nothing to do with science. Some sort of link between climate and power may have been inevitable because death, taxes and weather are all inevitable. Its such a glorious convergence of inevitabilities that rich and powerful increased-government enthusiasts could not pass it up.
Of course, the chance of editors at Science allowing such a response paper to get published is virtually zero. The editors at Science choose which scientists will be asked to provide peer review, and they already know who they can count on to reject a skeptics paper.
the state of climate science from the sort of standpoint you are wanting.
Blacks and Hispanics work hard to provide better futures for their children. The EPA regulations will push the American dream even further out of reach for them. Their incomes will be less, their unemployment rates will increase substantially, and it will take those who are out of work longer to find another job. Blacks and Hispanics are often the "last hired and the first fired."
Many of the doubt-inducing climate scientists and their media acolytes attribute this rising skepticism to the stupidity of Americans, philistines unable to appreciate that there is "a scientific consensus on climate change." One of the benefits of the recent Climategate scandal, which revealed leading climate scientists manipulating data, methods, and peer review to exaggerate the evidence of significant global warming, may be to permanently deflate the rhetorical value of the phrase "scientific consensus."
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Even then, according to UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) figures, the reported global temperature increase between 1942 and 1995 was approximately +0.5 C, while U.S. and Western European data showed approximately zero.
One of the authors of the new study today, Professor Jonathan Bamber of Bristol uni, carried out a previous effort to work out what scientists think sea levels will do, in which metre-range rises were described as "conceivable" but highly unlikely.
CFACT recently erected a billboard graphing world temperature data reported by the U.K. Met Office in Washington D.C. to raise awareness, however, the U.S. executive branch is operating within a similar information bubble to that which encloses the UNFCCC.
He moved to Los Angeles a few years ago and has landed some roles in movies and on television; he played a hotel concierge last season on the Fox series House.
the paper by Wang et al (which I have been unable to access) in the decision to
The AGU has an official position statement on global warming. The statement is currently being rewritten by a committee of 14 people. The existing AGU climate statement turns the speculative claims of global warming hysterics into what many readers might mistake for the prudent judgment of serious scientists. The current statement was last revised in 2007. It will be interesting to see if the new statement acknowledges an additional 5 years of failure to warm. The 2007 statement does not invoke the extreme weather catastrophe story, probably because the extreme weather story was still in its infancy in 2007.
Acquiescence Response Bias, the tendency for respondents to agree with statements no matter what their content. This is especially problematic in agree-disagree questions.
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Accounting for wavelength effects will likely improve climate models
Dr. Illarionov went further when speaking to journalists on April 14. He said, "First we wanted to call this treaty an interstate Gosplan, but then we realized that a Gosplan is much more humane, so we should call the Kyoto Protocol an interstate gulag . In a gulag, people were at least given the same rations, which did not lessen from one day to the next, but the Kyoto Protocol proposes decreasing rations day by day .
It was me or nobody, now or never. Combination of several rather improbable prerequisites just wouldn't occur again for anyone else in the foreseeable future. The circus was about to arrive in Copenhagen. Later on it could be too late.
But there is a darker reality. Many of the "preferred" candidatesincluding Ernst as well as James Lankford in Oklahoma and Jack Kingston in Georgiaare anything but pragmatic.
The oceans contain about 50 times more CO2 than the atmosphere, mostly as bicarbonates. When the temperature of the ocean rises a little, more CO2 is released into the atmosphere, and when it cools down, goes back more CO2 in the water. Small changes in the CO2 content of water correspond to large changes in the atmosphere. Moreover, some of the CO2 will be permanently removed from the cycle by the formation of calcium carbonate (CaCO3) as shells of marine organisms that sink to the bottom. We do not know how much the mind, but possibly the proportion is not negligible. The limestone cliffs z. B. at Dover in England and many other places around the world are created.
So is rainforest loss, as Postel suggest, nearly 40 million acres per year the alleged equivalent of one football field per second? Well that's the number U.S. News and World Report used as its figure in a major article debunking environmental myths. But other environmentalists use slightly lower figures.
Corrupting science is bad. Al Gore promotes spending by governments around the globe to finance his multibillion dollar venture capital fund, KPCB, which owns 16 GreenTech firms and Google. Providing government grants for fraudulent science research promoting caps on CO2 production is a conflict of interest. I personally found flawed science in peer reviewed papers in Science and Proceedings of The Royal Society and published my findings in a letter to HP in January 2009.
If the physics are so simple, why are temperatures below Hansens zero emissions Scenario C?
Russian president Vladimir Putin (#4) is more interested in developing a plan to step up his challenge to NATO than to scale down his nation's emission.
A reference list compiled by CO2Science shows that there are at least 96 proxy studies of Europe, North America, South America, Asia, and Aus/NZ with quantitative estimates of MWP temperatures, plus 109 more with qualitative estimates, and an additional 116 providing evidence that it was a significant, centuries long event that came and went fairly suddenly.
CO2sceptics News Blog | Morano on CNN debates alleged 'censorship' of global warming science (Video & Transcript)
Again the overall rise of the past 200 years is easily explained by sunspots, which is why a lot of people are nervous about cooling. After all, if you are claiming the sun caused the warming, andyou take it away, and the oceans flip to their negative phase, and a couple of volcanoes blow to boot, then there is real trouble. Hence the triple crown of cooling, which I showed on national TV 4 years ago when explaining why the cooling would commence, and by 2030 temperatures would return to levels seen in the late 1970s.
And that's why I've got an old tobacco tin with cash and a ticket to Singapore buried in my backyard ; ...Cecilia Reynolds, the dean of education at the University of Saskatchewan, said the college is currently considering making the math education course an elective. Related , from the Frontier Centre. h/t LC Bennett
Sanitation Union Fires Back At Accusations Of Slow-Down:
CO2 is not a Greenhouse Gas that Raises Global temperature. Period!
"The Commission mistakenly equates Intel's market share with market power. In fact, Intel has managed to sustain its market share over time only because it has continued to innovate aggressively and compete with archrival AMD to bring better processors to the market. This dynamic state of affairs has benefited consumers immensely. Spending millions of taxpayer dollars intervening in a well-functioning market is an enormous waste."
I, then, explained what I call the Obama Doctrinehis primary mode of operation: "Reward your friends, punish your opposition." With a shrug, I told them, "You don't need to know anything more than that to know that Keystone will not be approved."
Heres another example: Gravesend sizzles in late September sun
Ackermann reminds us: History shows us that this is precisely what never has put us on the path to democracy, freedom and prosperity.
Proxy sample temperature differences (mostly land surface)= approx. zero
Clouds seeded with salt water would be thicker, and would reflect more heat back toward the sun, away from Earth. Cooling effects - as well as other, adverse consequences - have been observed after volcanic eruptions.
They could have mentioned the remarkable absence of hurricanes making US landfall in the last 6 years or the fact there have many earlier decades with more major hurricane strikes than the last one.
However, this graph basically said otherwise. I was left asking myself how I could vote for a carbon pollution reduction scheme if it appeared as though carbon dioxide emissions were not driving climate change. It is important to point out that the IPCC had predicted in their models that there would be a direct correlation between increasing carbon dioxide emissions and increasing global temperatures. However, if you look at the graph it is obvious to everyone that this correlation simply does not exist.
The last year has seen a realization among many in the media that the case against GMOs is without merit.
The early complaints are coming in large part from a former aide to Congress' No.1 climate change skeptic, Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla. The ex-aide, Marc Morano, has virtually devoted his blog ClimateDepot to lambasting Gingrich's stance on energy issues.
May Obama also prod the SEC to stop delaying provisions of that bill that would lift barriers to crowdfunding, allowing sites like Kickstarter to allow equity shares in projects as well as trinkets.
Families will have to cope with more stress, depression, drug and alcohol abuse, spousal and child abuse. Nutrition and medical care will suffer. More people will turn to crime. More will have strokes and heart attacks. More will die prematurely or commit suicide. For no measurable benefits.
The ink-ocracy: Some Republican-friendly columnists turned on the McCain-Palin ticket; others stayed right amid the wave of rampant Obama worship. How long will it take before they find a new darling to champion?
Taking the temperature: Climate change poll From Scientific American Readers
In line with environmentalist ideology and Democratic Party ideals, it's also expanding efforts to eliminate the last vestiges of drilling, mining, timber harvesting, ranching, farming and property inholdings (private lands allowed to remain within subsequently designated parks, wildlife refuges and wilderness areas) on government-controlled lands in America's western states and Alaska. Many call it cultural cleansing, to create private recreational domains for the rich and famous.
Iran has touted its ability to continue with domestic energy production, notably in the South Pars natural gas field in the Persian Gulf, despite international sanctions targeting its energy sector. In the Caspian, however, Irans recent claims may put it at odds with its neighbours over their rights in disputed territorial waters.
The three Australian researchers report that (1) "most models show substantial deviations from the observations and from each other in most domains," that (3) "the CMIP models tend to largely overestimate the effective spatial number degrees of freedom," that (4) the models "simulate too strongly localized patterns of SST variability at the wrong locations with structures that are different from the observed," and that (7) "the mismatch between the models is as big as the mismatch with the observations."
NEMS is used by the Energy Information Administration (EIA) of the Department of Energy as well as various nongovernmental organizations for a variety of purposes, including forecasting the effects of energy policy changes on a plethora of leading economic indicators. The methodologies, assumptions, conclusions, and opinions in this report are entirely the work of statisticians and economists at The Heritage Foundation's Center for Data Analysis (CDA) and have not been endorsed by and do not necessarily reflect the views of the developers of NEMS.
NCDC head Thomas Karl will serve as the climate services transitional director. NOAA also plans to create new positions for six regional climate service directors.
The authors write that "because of climate unpredictability, species have evolved a certain amount of tolerance to various abiotic climate-related factors in their responses to warming and cooling events," noting that such responses may have been driven by natural selection , "in which case," as they continue, "genetic traits that provide a higher fitness under the new climate regime are selected, or they may be phenotypically plastic, where the organism can adjust its phenotype without any genotypic change," as described by West-Eberhard (2003). What was done
How the Climategate emails were extracted from the UEA CRUnit may or may not have been a criminal act that has still not been determined. But Dr. Thug clearly doesnt understand how this whole public/private nature of correspondence is categorized. Let me explain.
Climate Depot describes it as a "clitanic disaster," but the global warming scientists and eco-tourists trapped in Antarctic ice held a sing-along to welcome the new year while awaiting rescue.
A version of this article appeared in the summer edition of the Manhattan Institute's City Journal.
The issue of ramming huge piles into the seabed is becoming increasingly controversial in the installation of offshore windparks.
Finding that the estimated historic increase in carbon dioxide was not enough to cause dangerous warming on its own, the modellers guessed that atmospheric water vapour would amplify, by a factor of three, any initial carbon dioxide-forced warming.
The actual Arctic has almost exactly normal sea ice, with only a few weeks remaining in the melt season.
Note: A climate delusionist, is someone who increases their confidence that humans caused the 20th century warming at the same time as their predicted warming fails to materialise and almost none of their predicted trends for extreme weather prove to be true. Rising confidence at a time your predictions are moving false is a clear sign of delusion.
In the words of the author, the above results "suggest that the accelerated urbanization process in recent decades may have substantially contributed to the warming of the urban air observed in large cities in Mexico." Once again, therefore, we are reminded of the huge magnitude of the urban heat island effect, even compared to the global warming of the past century, which climate alarmists claim was unprecedented over the past twenty centuries, as well as the urban heat island's dependence upon the nature of the urban landscape. These observations suggest to us that it is essentially impossible to adequately adjust surface air temperature measurements made within an urban area to the degree of accuracy required to correctly quantify background or rural climate change, which may well be an order of magnitude smaller than the perturbing effect of the city. Reviewed 29 March 2006
In February 2016, U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta ruled that OSTP must produce these records, since the emails did not involve privileged agency policymaking, and the drafts of OSTP's rejection letter had lost their privileged status by being shared with a non-agency employee. OSTP had claimed the professor it was shared with was a neutral consultant, and thus, functionally an agency employee. But the judge ruled that the professor, who is the principal exponent of the idea that global warming is causing more winter cold, was an interested party, not a neutral consultant. Thus, none of the records were privileged under FOIA's Exemption 5 deliberative process privilege.
A new NASA research project aims to study how changes in water vapor and ozone in the upper atmosphere result in "significant climate impacts" on the Earth surface. Prior research has shown that tiny changes in solar activity within and between solar cycles can have greatly amplified effects upon climate by altering the specific humidity of the upper atmosphere, as well as ozone production in the stratosphere due to large changes in solar UV. This new mission may add to our understanding of how small changes in solar activity can drive large scale changes in atmospheric circulation, ocean oscillations, weather, and climate.
The trick to reconstructing temperatures here involves the shell remains of planktonic diatoms that have lived in the Lake for eons. During warm periods, some species of diatom phytoplankton flourish while during cold periods, some species flourish while most reduce production. Cores from the bottom of the Lake therefore contain a high-resolution temperature record for hundreds of thousands of years interpreted from biogenic silica left from the plankton.
And whoops! climate scientists conceded last year that the Earths surface temperature stopped rising in 1997. (Or did temps take a temporary pause, as warmists say?) Too bad for makers of jet-skis and tank tops: We might see global cooling into the 2030s.
September Snow Cover Was Highest On Record In North America
* Meeting this threat head on, CEI on Monday, May 16, petitioned the District of Columbia Superior Court to fine AG Walker for violating the organization's First Amendment rights under the District of Columbia's Anti-SLAPP law, and for attorneys' fees and other sanctions.
Mexico's deputy foreign minister, Juan Manuel Gomez Robledo, said more countries had said in private consultations that they intended to add their pledges to the list of 85. Some countries that already have submitted pledges may take "additional measures," he said. He declined to name any country, but said they included both industrial and developing nations.
?? certain ABC reporters seem to be suffering from Stockholm Syndrome when it comes to interviewing scientists promoting climate alarm. They appear so besotted they are failing to properly scrutinize experts and authoritative documents like IPCC assessments and government reports. They put their faith in authority without bothering to properly verify the facts, the way journalists did in the good old days. In doing so they act as echo chambers spreading misconceptions and exaggerations in the process.
like that of last summer? That?s the sort of thing we need to think about.
Dangerous manmade global cooling, global warming, climate change, and extreme weather claims continue to justify what has become a $1.5-trillion-per-year industry: tens of billions spent annually on one-sided research and hundreds of billions sent to crony corporatists to subsidize replacing dependable, affordable carbon-based fuels with unreliable, expensive "renewable" energy.
The Daily Caller reports on Attorney General Claude Walker's refusal to admit he violated CEI's First Amendment rights and quotes Kent Lassman's response.
Climate change: A new religion complete with evangelists, tithes, indulgences and superstitions
This is unpersuasive. The majority base their interpretation on CAA 165(a)(4) , which states that no major source may be constructed unless ?the proposed facility is subject to the best available control technology for each pollutant subject to regulation under this chapter.? They conveniently drop the qualifier that appears at the beginning of the quoted sentence. The full text reads:
Seriously, these two have failed. Failed completely, utterly and abysmally with their climate predictions. After these terrible events abate, these people should be put in front of some sort of panel and held to account for their predictions and asked why they were so wrong. It wont happen of course but why should anyone give two squirts of guinea pigs piss about their predictions for the future?
To add to the confusion, a Greenpeace press release from 1995 describes him as a ?nuclear expert? (screengrab here).
Figure 21 is the model-data comparison of the sea surface temperatures of the Arctic Ocean. The models captured the warming rate of the Arctic Ocean sea surface temperatures reasonably well.