Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
Out: "climate change" (joining its predecessors "new ice age" and "global warming" on the scrap heap).
Water-efficient maize boosts harvests for drought-hit Tanzanian farmers
The people in the future envisioned by the IWG (and embedded in their IAMs) need not worry. They will not be disappointed because the IWG assumes future growth in per capita GDP that actually exceeds that of the U.S. for the past two centuries.
There is no evidence at all of an increasing trend over the last decade and temperatures since 2006 have averaged 15.8C, a similar level to the late 1940s.
Until recently, Europe had positioned itself as the global leader in climate protection and renewable energy, with Germany leading the way with ambitious targets and generous subsidies that boosted solar power and wind energy.
And the judge's finding could not have been blunter: "The Armageddon scenario that he depicts is not based on any scientific view." And that quotation, too, was on one of my slides, but Abraham carefully failed to mention it, or to check with me to find out how it was that the judge had come to that conclusion.
More than 100 of the world's independent science bodies including the National Academy of Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Medical Association and every major science oversight group in Europe and across the developed and developing world have by now issued summary statements that foods made from genetically modified crops are as safe as conventional or organic varieties and often times are safer because they undergo extensive evaluations for approval.
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Last May I wrote about a study which he had authored where he found that weather extremes in the Alps had not increased.
Remember that all these samples were collected the year of their exposure along receding ice cap margins . So, out of the 145 samples, 135 have been dated to less than 5000 years ago, and over half are as recent as the MWP. Yet the study ignores all the evidence from these, and uses a tiny amount of data from one small corner of the survey area to justify its claim of Unprecedented warmth in the Arctic.
Any further action by the Prime Minister seems to bring new charts, new requirements and new demands, without any connection between them. The response of the British public service and it was obvious, as a run-up to do the minimum possible to avoid incurring the wrath ministerial, with no consideration for the users of the service. The Dean of the above will try to excel many more students can, and will not care if people with disabilities in her school will not learn the bare minimum. The family doctor will refuse to see patients suffered more serious and / or most at risk, but success will appear in the list of the average waiting time in his clinic. And so on.
6) Thought control. In addition to vilifying climate chaos skeptics, alarmists are determined to control all thinking on the subject. They are terrified that people will find realist analyses and explanations far more persuasive. They refuse to debate skeptics, respond to NIPCC and other studies examining natural climate change and carbon dioxide benefits to wildlife and agriculture, or even admit there is no consensus.
Funniest thing about this climate nonsense is the sense of supreme importance many (like our opponents in the paper) feel. Politicians feed egos of scientists and their hangers on because, for now, these folks are useful in advancing the agenda-of-the-moment. But, as always happens, manias morph and something new will capture attentions. How sad some will be when the phone stops ringing! Perhaps the mere thought of this misery is what accounts the vehemence of the debate.
Converting to biomass? I bet the conversion efficiency is lower than conventional fuels, therefore even more waste heat.
Currently, its "Clean Power" plan is generating its latest and most duplicitous Administer, Gina McCarthy, to go around saying that it will not be costly, nor cost jobs. "Clean Power" is the name given to the EPA policy to reduce overall U.S. carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by 30% from 2005 levels by 2030. It is requiring each state to cut its emissions by varying amounts using a baseline established by the EPA.
For instance, the notorious claim that glaciers in the Himalayas would disappear by 2035 seems to have been based on a misprint (for 2350) in a document issued by a pressure group. When several reviewers challenged the assertion in draft, they were ignored. When Indian scientists challenged it after publication, they were not just dismissed but vilified and accused of "voodoo science" by the IPCC chairman, Rajendra Pachauri.
Yet you wouldnt know this from most networks. Recent years slowdown in global warming was completely ignored by networks in 92 climate change stories in 2013. (2)
Dem congressman: Hey, let's impeach John Roberts:
As DOJ reviews legality of merger, it's AT&T; versus Sprint:
Biggest Player. The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the scientific panel whose reports contain the work of Glimategate figures and are highly politicized and publicized to increase fear of Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW): "imminent catastrophic man-made climate change." Many horrendously expensive and needless local, state, federal and international policies have flowed from IPCC's flawed reports.
To summarize, a pro-AGW paper being peer reviewed by other climate scientists is probably (like Briffa appears to have been) being considered favorably because of its results, is being reviewed by reviewers who know and often have co-authored with the papers writer, likely contains undisclosed data treatment that influences the result, is being reviewed by reviewers who do not have the mathematical background to spot subtle statistical errors, and is being judged on conformity to accepted practices in the discipline in a discipline that is evolving so quickly that the accepted practices themselves are not well validated.
As noted above, the application of likelihood methods to assess trend confidence intervals under different autocorrelation structures seems so obvious and is so easy to implement that one would expect it to be almost routine. And perhaps it is in some circles, but, if it is, it hasnt been mentioned in any of the recent climate debate on trends.
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Guest Opinion: Dr. Tim Ball, WUWT, Aug 8, 2015
On the basis of these findings, the authors conclude that this worst drought of the modern meteorological record "is not likely to be purely anthropogenic in origin." And if it is no different from what has been occurring over and over again for the past 1500 years, it is surely not the result of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions.
These showers are just the first line, more will come later...here is the 24 hr precipitation ending 5 AM Monday. Not used to seeing precipitation around here! But with the rain will come lightning and the potential for new fire starts.
"Based on the above analysis," in the words of the three researchers, "it is likely that the observed decrease in stress response was the result of acclimatization of the coral/algal holobionts (Berkelmans et al ., 2004; Maynard et al ., 2008) or an influx of thermo-tolerant colonies between 2002 and 2007." And providing further support for their conclusions, they note that several "similar decreases in susceptibility to thermal stress have been documented between successive bleaching events, including between 1991 and 1994 at Moorea Island (Adjeroud et al ., 2002), between 1998 and 2002 on the Great Barrier Reef in Australia (Maynard et al ., 2008), and between 1982-83 and 1997-98 in Panama (Glynn et al ., 2001), Costa Rica (Jimenez et al ., 2001), and at the Galapagos Islands (Podesta and Glynn, 2001)."
Human Achievement Hour is an annual event that recognizes and celebrates the fact that this is the greatest time to be alive yet, and that the reason we have come this far is that people have been free to use their minds and the resources in their environment to experiment, create, and innovate.
Figure 1. Changes in yearly average surface-temperature sampled worldwide, reconstructed for land and sea surface (solid line, University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit ), and land only (dashed line, NASA-Goddard Institute for Space Studies ).2 The temporary warming in 1997-1998 is a natural and unusually strong El Nio event and biases the estimated warming trend upward.
In today's highly charged environment of climate change policy, efforts are often made to impune the credibility of those engaged in the debate through assertions that their views are a product of financial relationships rather than sincerely held beliefs or objective research.
For what its worth, while this study is often cited by cholesterol deniers, they almost never emphasize the absurd conclusions regarding pushing the guidelines even lower. Perhaps this is to protect the lay audience from falling into despairas they probably shouldover the state of what used to be called science.
Near-future reductions in pH will have no consistent ecological effects on the early life-history stages of reef corals
Firstly, it misunderstands international trade. Our economic well-being is independent of Chinese productivity. The idea that other nations will ?steal our jobs? or otherwise capitalize off of our unwillingness to go green is a fallacy. The belief that another country?s rise or fall impacts our economic well-being in any appreciable way is unsupported by economic theory and disproven by empirical evidence (ignoring, for simplicity, the prospect of military confrontation, where relative strength does indeed matter). There is no race or contest being played out; the U.S. and China are not Pepsi and Coca Cola writ large.
#31. Key Finding of International Scientific Panel's Analysis of Climate-Change
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In the civilian world, politicians and bureaucrats have robbed the concept of "strategy" of any meaning by systematically using it interchangeably with "policy." Academics and think-tankers, for their part, have chosen to blow out of proportion a Revolution in Security Affairs in which "the dividing lines between hard and soft, civil and military security are rapidly dissolving, requiring far more flexibility and causing much confusion as allies and partners have disagreed significantly about how to manage such complexity." This supposed Revolution has been used as a pretext to dissolve the concept of "strategy" in the catch-all notion of "security," the concept of "national security" itself in a nebulous "human security," and last but not least, the concept of grand strategy into that of global governance whatever that may mean.9
\] is an example of a state (there are infinitely many) that is a linear superposition, but it is obviously not non-entangled. It is entangled. It should have a different eigenvalue \(E=1\) which proves that the linear operator cannot exist.
Students meet state treasurer - Campus With a graduate degree in geology, Mourdock said his studies have convinced him that global warming is not happening. "I'm scared to death about each of the three candidates and their positions on global climate change," Mourdock said. "Global caps in the last 15 years receded until last year on Mars, but what do we have in common with Mars? Last time I checked, only the sun." Mourdock explained that humans aren't the cause of global warming and that it's something bigger in the universe, such as the sun.
We know life is better from stories we've heard in our own homes. Existence has improved enormously within the lifetimes of our immediate family members. My Grandfather O'Rourke was born in 1877, and born into a pretty awful world. The average wage was a dollar a daythat's if you worked; O'Rourkes were not known to do so.
"A New Jersey Little League is taking safety up a notch. For the first time they're requiring all their volunteers be fingerprinted. We're talking coaches and concession stand workers, too."
Right now, Higginbotham's salary and career hang by a thread, preserved only by attorneys he has hired to protect himself from OSU attacks. The Robinsons' studies have been severely disrupted. Meanwhile, however, public outcry in favor of Higginbotham and the students has grown in intensity, especially in Oregon, and a group of prominent alumni donors has offered to pay for the student's remaining PhD work and legal costs to settle the dispute. (Higginbotham is a nuclear power guy; the culprits are in "nuclear medicine" and generally anti-nuclear power.)
Typhoon Vera, September 1958. This typhoons passage over Japan in 1959 caused Japans greatest storm disaster. The death toll reached nearly 5000, with 1.5 million homeless. Typhoon Vera dealt a staggering blow to Japans economy with tremendous damage to roads, bridges and communications from wind, floods and landslides.
Dubbed geoengineering, it involves purposely "engineering" the planet's climate in ways intended to offset warming from greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Although Nature"s discussion of the various possibilities is fascinating on its own, the article is more interesting for its implicit insights into climate scientists' blinkered view of how to deal with greenhouse risks.
Researchers say it proves their cosmic impact hypothesis. I say its more evidence of huge explosions in the sky triggered by the Gothenburg magnetic reversal.
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In Keremali Akyaz Plateau district about 10 most elderly stranded citizens were rescued after heavy snowfall there mounted up to 70 cm (27 inches).
Here is another attempt at trying to untangle the Skydragons misunderstanding about the greenhouse effect and the planetary energy balance.
Academic freedom is the belief that the freedom of inquiry by faculty members is essential to the mission of the academy as well as the principles of academia, and that scholars should have freedom to teach or communicate ideas or facts (including those that are inconvenient to external political groups or to authorities) without being targeted for repression, job loss, or imprisonment. Academic freedom is a contested issue and, therefore, has limitations in practice.
The Nobel Committee has a long tradition for being controversial; it has repeatedly awarded the price to controversial candidates in an effort to reach a hand out to people building bridges for peace and prosperity. This decision was not controversial; it was trite.
Also July of 2015, and thus the 19th year without any signfiant linear global warming, the question remains: wheres the global warming ?
Veterans Affairs wind turbine, built for $2.3 million, stands dormant
It is true, Secretary Kerry, that "no one nation can stand alone." But he has promised we will rise to meet the challenge of tackling climate changerising energy prices, that is.
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Despite this, no changes were made to the text. In fact, when V.K Raina challenged the 2035 date in his report on Himalayan glaciers for the Indian government, the IPCC accused him of mischief and defended 2035 as a good estimate of when the glaciers would be gone.
The authors of this new study were able to reveal a dimension of plant-environment feedbacks, which is currently insufficiently investigated and described for the response of plants to future CO2 concentrations, and that dimension reveals a promising future for Earths plant life?? Read More
It is a huge no-brainer that Jan 1974 rain exceeded Jan 2001 . Note the BoM coy way of putting it ??? ???? what data the bureau has suggests 1893??s rainfall was extreme.?? Feb 1893 rain might have exceeded Jan 1974 and 2011 combined.
Not only are the 14 proxies used in O&B; not independent of prior studies, in fact, they are composed entirely of proxies repeatedly used in previous studies. Astonishingly, 2 of the 14 proxies (2 of only 10 in the Medieval Warm Period) are bristlecone/foxtail pines, despite the fact that these are precisely the proxies that have most been called into question in connection with the work of Mann et al.
On Wednesday, July 20, authors Timothy and Christina Sandefur will be at The Heartland Institute's Andrew Breitbart Freedom Center in Arlington Heights, Illinois to talk about their book Property Rights in 21st-Century America. On Wednesday, July 27, Eric O'Keefe who successfully fought back against the infamous "John Doe" investigations in Wisconsin will be here to talk about how the power of the state can be used to silence patriotic Americans. You won't want to miss either of these important presentations! We hope to see you here in Arlington Heights, but if you are unable to attend in person, the events will be live-streamed and archived on Heartland's YouTube page. SEE UPCOMING EVENTS HERE
FactCheck: The lead author of the Antarctica study, University of Missouri professor Curt Davis, said : "These television ads are a deliberate effort to confuse and mislead the public about the global warming debate. They are selectively using only parts of my previous research to support their claims." Davis's study indicated the increased ice accumulation in the interior might be offsetting the loss of ice at the coastal regions, or might not. It said that whether the entire ice sheet is shrinking "will depend on the balance between mass changes on the interior and those in coastal areas."
Emissions from our power plants, cars, factories, and farms are causing catastrophic climate change!
We can see this clash most clearly in the reactions of both camps to the Clinton presidency and to Hillary Clinton's once and future candidacy. To liberal progressives, the Clinton presidency is anathema. It was too timid when it had power in 1993-94, and too conciliatory when it shared power with a Republican Congress thereafter. This belief fueled the challenges to Al Gore in 2000 by Bill Bradley in the primaries and Ralph Nader in the general election. It fueled Howard Dean's 2004 bid, and was the impetus behind much of the support for Barack Obama's challenge to frontrunner Hillary Clinton in 2008.
Translation; Pieces of wood are found repeatedly at the edges of receding glaciers. These provide evidence that it was frequently warmer than today over much of the past 10,000 years.
The economic pain cuts deeper than wasted taxpayer money because government inventions distort free enterprise, create government dependence, and allow Washington to direct the flow of private-sector investments. The number of investment opportunities is broad and expansive, but the available capital is limited. Of course, investors must choose among the different projects, but government favoritism diverts limited capital by dictating who should receive it by extending the confidence of the government through a subsidy to a politically favored technology or company. For instance, private investors sank $1.1 billion into Solyndra. Much of the private financing came after the Department of Energy announced that Solyndra was one of 16 companies eligible for a loan guarantee in 2007. That $1.1 billion could have been invested elsewhere in the economy.
Claim F: Climate scientists claim that the .4-.5C warming from 1975-1998 cannot have been caused natural variations. This has never been reconciled with the fact that the 0.6C warming from 1910 to 1940 was almost certainly due mostly to natural forces. Also, the claim that natural forcings could not have caused a 0.2C per decade warming in the 80's and 90's cannot be reconciled with the the current claimed natural "masking" of anthropogenic warming that must be on the order of 0.2C per decade.
The Public Utility Commission is anticipating months of debate. It will hold another five hearings in February, March and April to consider what testimony will be permitted. Evidence will be presented at hearings in early May. Kristen Edwards, staff attorney at the commission, told me: "We'll consider more meetings as necessary."
Expanded the first 10 clean, it looks s hr:
Global warming alarmists in full retreat as skeptics attack greenhouse theory
In conducting their experiments, the three researchers determined that "primary polyp growth was reduced only marginally by more acidic seawater," but they state that "the combined effect of high temperature and lowered pH caused a significant reduction in growth of primary polyps by almost a third." Nevertheless, they report that "survival and settlement of planula larvae were unaffected by increased temperature, lowered acidity or the combination of both."
DELVING INTO THE causes of the French Revolution, de Tocqueville famously noted that regimes overthrown in revolutions tend to be less repressive than the ones preceding them. Why? Because, de Tocqueville surmised, though people "may suffer less," their "sensibility is exacerbated."
Michael Mann proved climate change with his hockey stick
A recent study from the Institute for Energy Research (IER), which examined the state-by-state burden of the PTC, called it "an amazing subsidy" because it can "effectively give a utility a bigger subsidy than the actual market price. It would be as if Uncle Sam allowed car dealers to knock off $60,000 from their tax bill for every $50,000 car they sold. Indeed, the PTC is so generous that it can result in negative wholesale electricity prices." The "Sharing the Burden of the Wind PTC" report shows which states benefit most from the federal subsidy and which lose. Texas was the biggest winner, having received $394 million in PTC credits.
Aside from giving over most of its running time to what amounts to a stump speech, the film's efforts to humanize Gore are only remotely tied to his passion for the environment. We do learn that his interest in the issue goes back to his college days. But the picture's attempts to connect the near-death of Gore's young son with the father's love for the earth is as manipulative as the film's use of Katrina footage.
The compromise baffled many outside observers, who could not understand what drove either side to reach the agreement. Both sides claimed victory, with Max Baucus (D.-Mont.) announcing that last year's was "a better bill," while Pete Domenici (R.-N.M.) reminded commentators that the Republicans would be able to rewrite the bill in conference with the House.
The hiatus period of 18 years 4 months, or 220 months, is the farthest back one can go in the RSS satellite temperature record and still show a sub-zero trend.
Satellite Study: slowing plant growth, 2000-2009
"If the Vice President is so worried about global warming he should consider a "no regrets' policy," says Paul Georgia, environmental research associate at CEI and managing editor of Cooler Heads, a bi-weekly newsletter covering global warming issues. "We suggest a program of deregulation that would remove barriers to energy innovation, eliminate subsidies that encourage energy use and liberate energy markets. A "no-regrets' policy should be pursued regardless of global warming considerations."
22 Amy Myers Jaffe and Robert Manning, "The Myth of the Caspian "Great Game': The Real Geopolitics of Energy" Survival (Winter 199899). See also Robert Sokolsky and Tanya Charlick-Paley, "NATO and Caspian Security: A Mission Too Far?," RAND, 1999.
70-100: Friends funerals in-between doctor appointments
Editor note : Adam Smith (17231790)is considered the father of modern libertarian thought, although economics and political economy have advanced significantly since the 18th century. Many of Smithsinsights have proved prescient, and it is often remarkable how todays follies bring to minda quotation or insight from his books, essays, or correspondence.
Further information on the upward step changes that result from strong El Nio events, refer to my posts from a year ago Can El Nino Events Explain All of the Global Warming Since 1976? Part 1 and Can El Nino Events Explain All of the Global Warming Since 1976? Part 2
Sea level in the region has been completely steady since 1975, Taminos period of modern global warming. Once again, scientists are trying to pretend that they know something scary, when in fact there is not one shred of evidence to support their claims.