Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
The EPA's October 16 deadline will be upon us before you know it. Take a few minutes now to send them your comments. Pick any of the above suggestions, customize them as you please, and send them on to the EPA. For America to grow, we need energy that is effective, efficient, and economical, rather than that which is threatened by the EPA's flood of excessive and burdensome regulations.
The paper has been put on hold, while an issue with the data processing and methods that we have identified is checked. The paper has not been withdrawn nor has it been retracted .
Needless to say, the most famous concept named after him is a characteristic class now known as the Pontryagin class. (Although the Pontryagin duality for the Fourier transform on locally compact groups is also deep.) If you search through Google Scholar for papers mentioning both "string theory" and "Pontryagin class", you get 276 hits dominated by papers written by Witten, Vafa, Harvey, Moore, Sethi, Mukhi, and a few pals.
We must drill safely, use fuel more efficiently in vehicles and power plants, and get more from every underground reservoir. And we could do so, if government would allow it.
Ball told WND the deception of the IPCC and its allies can be seen in how the reports are released, with the policy statement drawing headlines while the scientific information comes later and is largely ignored.
We think even the famous footballer David Beckham, probably the former idol-hero-turned-villain less dangerous world. He hailed when young showed his talent at Manchester United, idolized in every sense of the word when I start 'to wear a sarong to mo' of male skirt to go out with Posh Spice of the Spice Girls pop diva, and now the object of various scorn and contempt despite the fact that without a few of its goals would not be England recently went to the world finals, European and probably not to those of the oratory. Mr. Beckham, now in force at Real Madrid, spends his life extracalcistica to fight against those who try to regularly publish details of family life, or accusations of infidelity 'to his wife, or who knows' how many more gossip (not even take care of that two small children can live a day without a flash of a photographer in the face).
Gingrich Tears a Strip Off of John King & CNN
3- Years go by. McIntyre is still stymied trying to get access to the original source data so that he can replicate the Mann 1998 conclusion. In 2008 Mann publishes another paper in bolstering his tree ring claim due to all of the controversy surrounding it. A Mann co-author and source of tree ring data (Professor Keith Briffa of the Hadley UK Climate Research Unit) used one of the tree ring data series (Yamal in Russia) in a paper published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society in 2008, which has a strict data archiving policy. Thanks to that policy, Steve McIntyre fought and won access to that data just last week.
WEST VIRGINIA 2nd in coal production; more than 80,000 jobs
Once outcasts on the fringe of the scientific community, these individuals braved the ridicule of the self-appointed "enlightened" members of society to dismantle systematically the hockey sticks and other frauds crafted by leftists over the years.
As forests regenerate in future atmospheres of greater CO 2 concentration, the increases in root growth and mycorrhizal root colonization that result from elevated CO 2 will likely enable seedlings and juvenile trees to acquire greater amounts of soil nutrients more effectively than they presently do. This enhanced acquisition of nutrients should allow regenerating forest trees to support the increased tree biomass that typically results from atmospheric CO 2 enrichment.
What it means The final geocenter-corrected result of Baur et al . is most heartening, as Chambers et al . (2012) indicate that "sea level has been rising on average by 1.7 mm/year over the last 110 years," as is also suggested by the analyses of Church and White (2006) and Holgate (2007). Concomitantly, the air's CO 2 concentration has risen byclose to a third. And, still,it has not impacted the rate-of-rise of global sea level!
If these conditions are not met, the projected benefits of carbon pricing would not be achieved.
"In the 1990s most Americans believed environmental quality was declining," said Dr. Hayward. "But now, with a decade of compiled research in the Index, we've found that it is nearly impossible to paint a grim, doom-and-gloom picture anymore. The facts speak for themselves, and the facts are hugely encouraging."
In that sense, the secretive session in Alpbach was not only a planning session, but also the equivalent of a half-time locker room huddle.
Well, as discussed in an essay by Stephen Jay Gould on the cultivation of flowers, we must follow two basic principles if you want to practice uneugenetica serious (capable of improving a species, and not just some representatives):
This, however, does not constitute proof of global warming-enhanced, landfalling hurricane activity.
Tamsin's first post is about the travails of coming up with a blog name that wasn't going to bring down the wrath of one side or other of the global warming debate. I think All Models are Wrong is fine, although I couldn't help but be reminded of this . :-)
4) Where records are available back to 1934, they show that temperatures in both 1934 and 1936 were considerably higher for the month as a whole than 2011. This is true for average maximum, average mean and high maximum.
Potential, not actual crop failure led to a policy decision, which pushed up prices. Here are those prices, from Index Mundi .
Earths climate be insensitive to well-measured increases in greenhouse gases at the same time that it is excessively sensitive to poorly known solar brightness change
Moreover producing ethanol from corn by fermentation also produces more carbon dioxide during the fermentation process. And then the dilute ethanol produced by fermentation (about 12%) has to be concentrated using a distillation process which requires more energy and more emissions. Burning ethanol rather than petrol thus probably increases the production of carbon dioxide.
This may allow corals and their symbiotic algae a better chance to adapt and survive.??
Since the Keystone pipeline crosses the U.S. border, the State Department under Kerry's authority will (at least officially) have final say on permitting. And it's not as if the project is being rushed through without careful attention to environmental safeguards. After a 5-year wait, Keystone XL has met 57 specific pipeline safety standard requirements created by the State Department and the Department of Transportation's Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA). It passed all with flying colors, including acceptance by the State of Nebraska where it passes over the sensitive Ogallala Aquifer.
20 Corporate Environmental Enforcement Council, supra note 17, p. 10. Detroit Edison's plan to replace its turbine blades with a more energy-efficient design was eventually approved without triggering NSR.
Film clip #1: Solar Radiation in the Form of Light Waves Passes Through the Atmosphere
That's exactly the 17th Century time warp scenario that played out last week on the Senate floor as Chief Inquisitor Sheldon Whitehouse (D, RI) and 18 fellow jurists intoned judgments against dozens of organizations for sins of "denial blocking action on climate." Most of those sinful deniers are nonprofit conservative think tanks, including several that I am sinfully very proud to associate with.
Most of the time we hear how competitive and cheap renewable energy is. But as soon as the subsidies are cut, the truth comes out.
It has meanwhile spread that global warming paused for 16 years. Contrary to the IPCC's forecasts are stagnating temperatures, it is simply no longer getting warmer. How could this happen? The researchers devised a variety of hypotheses. The most widely used model says here that the surface temperatures of the Earth stagnate though, but in silence the waters of the deep sea would heat up strongly. And if these accumulated heat could eventually fight his way to the surface, then we are threatened with the warming disaster!
Paper finds a decrease of IR radiation from greenhouse gases over past 14 years, contradicts expected increase ??? cloudiness blamed for difference.
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A PSD source is major if it is in one of 28 listed categories and has a potential to emit 100 tons per year (TPY) of a CAA-regulated air pollutant, or if it is any other type of establishment and has a potential to emit 250 TPY.
If that 110-month IPCC overshoot were to continue for 100 years, the IPCC?s prediction would exceed the measured trend by almost 1.5 C . Though the IPCC projects that the world should have warmed by 0.12 C (1.33 C /century) since 2005, the mean of the RSS and UAH satellite datasets shows cooling of 0.01 C (0.15 C /century). The predicted and actual trends continue visibly to diverge.
According to the Met Office, last years drought was not unusual by historical standards, and was not as intense as the drought of 1975/76.
There are two versions one shorter, a second longer with more detail.
It was especially disappointing that no one else on the panel thought that the Holocaust denial comparison was worth commenting on, because it has emboldened the rise to an even nastier and more offensive rhetorical trick. Not only have climate skeptics been referred to "deniers" in order to generate the (frequently) unconscious mental association, but recently one publication went further and called for Nuremberg-style war crimes trials for people who challenge the alleged "consensus" on climate change. See how that works? In one bold move Holocaust deniers become Holocaust perpetrators. Is that really the level of debate to which we've descended?
Their land only temperature record has been tampered with for decades, and now shows twice as much 1880-1980 warming as it did in 1981.
However, after the Climategate dossier proved the existence of a Yamal-Urals regional chronology, the principal issue was the failure to use the Yamal-Urals regional chronology in Briffa et al 2008 or to otherwise report it (not a beauty contest between Yamal and Polar Urals). As noted above, CRU had noted their use of ???common high-frequency variability?? as their test whether to include data in a regional chronology. Polar Urals and Yamal have strong common high-frequency variability, expressed by Hantemirov and Shiyatov (2002) as follows:
EPA understood that it would be absurd to require pre-construction permits because of emissions of any airborne compound, including emissions of airborne compounds that have not been deemed harmful and regulated under the Clean Air Act. To avoid rendering the Prevention of Significant Deterioration statute an absurdity, EPA construed ?air pollutant? to mean certain air pollutants ? in particular, ?any regulated air pollutant.?
"I don't see any significant changes in the GOP candidates' positions on climate change," said Myron Ebell, director of the Center for Energy and Environment at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. "I have no idea what Donald Trump may do on climate and energy policy if elected president, since he says a lot of things, but his deeds don't often match his rhetoric."
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Special Projects Counsel Hans Bader on how the L.A. City Council is out of control:
Schwarzenegger of undermining recent legislation on greenhouse gas emissions.
In The Wall Street Journal this week, Arnold Schwarzenegger urged lawmakers to take climate change dangers more seriously.
John: Of course. Its about as useful as tits on a bull right now Brian. Yep. Disband the department, resign from parliament and then I think Ill renovate the en-suite and put in a home entertainment room.
But, then, the IPCC itself said, in its 2001 report: ???In climate research and modelling, we should recognize that we are dealing with a coupled non-linear chaotic system, and therefore that the long-term prediction of future climate states is not possible.??(6)
The paper before that Lu (2010, Phys. Rep.) has now come in for a real spanking from Groo and Mller (2011) in Do cosmic-ray-driven electron-induced reactions impact stratospheric ozone depletion and global climate change?. From the abstract:
data series. Mike Mann refuses to talk to these people and I can understand why. They are
There is evidence from these records of rapid warming ~11,500 calendar years ago. Central Greenland temperatures increased by ~7 deg C in a few decades (Dansgaard et al; 1989; Johnsen et al 1992; Grootes et al 1993). There are indications of an even more rapid change in the precipitation pattern (Alley et al 1993) and of rapid reorganizations in the atmospheric circulation (Taylor et al 1993a,Majewski et al 1993). Changes in SST, associated with sudden changes in oceanic circulation, also occurred in a few decades, at least in the Norwegian Sea (~5 deg C in fewer than 40 years: Lehman and Keigwin 1992). ??
Clever, but perhaps not clever enough. As Machievelli infamously advised princes long ago,one shouldnot say to someone whom onewants to kill, Give me your gun, I want to kill you with it, but merely Give me your gun, for once you have the gun in hand, you can satisfy your desire.
He said scientists at the conference had advanced other explanations, such as the relationship between solar activity and solar energy hitting the Earth to explain climate change.
More seriously, let us academically ask: Would life and a prosperous economy be possible in the year 2108 if the temperature were 5 C higher than today? Well, we happen to be familiar with different temperatures. Look at the average annual temperatures over the globe:
http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/save not the planet but this boy#63033 If someone with influence over him or his family is reading this, please step in. I'm not saying this is another case of " climate change delusion ", but I see here a man in the grip of an irrational, religious rapture, seemingly convinced that the world's fate really does lie on his plate.
The electric Reliability Organization (ERO), established with statutory authority after the widespread blackouts of 2003, has issued its first report. It makes for grim reading. The nation's electric power infrastructure is on the brink of collapse.
1) NOAA do not take TOBS adjustments into account when calculating state temperatures (although they do when working out national figures). This is due to change next year when the new GrDD system (Gridded) is introduced. Therefore TOBS cannot be the reason for the difference between the USHCN records and NOAAs. (And of course, there are no allowances for UHI either).
But wait a minute. Given the usual progress of science, won?t forecasting methods in the future always be better than in the past? What this suggests is that today the primary uses of, and interest in, such forecasts are political, not scientific ? that scientists as well as politicians are using forecasts for political and ideological purposes to influence public behavior here and now.
There are two other graphs spanning over five hundred million years by R. A. Berner and C. R. Scotese which show that there is no correlation at all between CO2 and temperature. These well publicized graphs were conveniently omitted from this section.
The second implication is an odd one, and quite important. Consider the fact that their temperature change hindcast (in degrees) is simply 0.3 times the forcing change (in watts per meter squared). But that is also a statement of the climate sensitivity, 0.3 degrees per W/m2. Converting this to degrees of warming for a doubling of CO2 gives us (0.3C per W/m2) times (3.7 W/m2 per doubling of CO2), which yields a climate sensitivity of 1.1C for a doubling of CO2 . This is far below the canonical value given by the GISSE modelers, which is about 0.8C per W/m2 or about 3C per doubling.
Art Horn isn't joking, at a Press Conference in August 2010, at the Bonn Climate Change negotiations, the Bolivian Ambassador, Pablo Solon, said:
Threats to U.S. sovereignty are both imminent and long-term. They have varying characteristics, and they are often not necessarily immediately obvious as threats. One element that runs through many of them, however, is the concept of international "norming," the idea that America should base its policies on the global consensus rather than making our own decisions as a constitutional democracy. "Norming" is a way to constrain U.S. sovereignty by moving our domestic political debate to align with broader international opinion.
across as pretty certain to me (and, more importantly, to my mum Mrs
It is clear that Miliband has not thought through this policy, simply preferring to spout meaningless sound bites. Unfortunately, the UK will have to pay for the consequences.
As the atmospheric CO 2 concentration continues to rise, it is likely that sorghum will require less water than it currently uses to produce equivalent, or even greater, grain yields. In addition, with lower total water requirements for this crop, its production in areas that are subjected to drought and low levels of soil moisture is likely to increase.
The authors report that experiments have shown that atmospheric CO 2 enrichment positively influences several external quality characteristics of chrysanthemums. Specifically, it increases stem length, number of lateral branches, number of flowers and size of flowers. What it means
I am not absolutely convinced, however, that carbon dioxide is the culprit. I think that remains to be proved. Carbon dioxide is complicated, and I believe that there could be other both human induced and natural causes for global warming.
Jones, A. 2005. Potential coastal erosion of the Swan coastal plain. Ch. 7 in Natural Hazard Risk in Perth, W.A. Geoscience Australia.
New Study: EPA Regulations Hurt Poor the Most
But what if the warming was caused by fewer clouds, rather than the fewer clouds being caused by warming? In other words, what if previous researchers have simply mixed up cause and effect when estimating cloud feedback?
Within the green movement, Peter Gleick is a renowned environmental scientist specializing in the negative impact of global warming. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences, co-founded the Pacific Institute, served as chairman of a task force on scientific ethics and integrity in the American Geophysical Union, and received a prestigious MacArthur Fellowship (aka genius grant) in anticipation of exceptional achievement in his field of research. Peter Gleick is also the self-admitted perpetrator of a recent fraud.
Hint to green wastrels in the Energy Department and elsewhere: when even the New York Times thinks the green madness has gone too far, it has. Putting green lipstick on a pig doesnt turn that pig into Ralph Nader.There may be a dumber mass movement in the country than the fuzzy minded sentimentalists of the great green herd, but it isnt easy to figure out which mass movement that would be. Walter Russell Mead, Via Meadia, 13 November 2011
Thousands of climate dignitaries representing almost every national government on Earth flew to Cancun, Mexico, for the great event. Security precautions were extensive: Battleships could be seen from the beach while thousands of soldiers and police lined the jam-packed roads. It was time for the 16th ?Conference of the Parties,? or COP16 for short. The annual summit, which was held this year from November 29 through December 10, is an extravaganza of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, or UNFCCC. The previous year?s COP15 in Copenhagen was massive ? over 50,000 attendees in all, not counting protesters. It was well publicized, too. But after the spectacular failure of COP15 to deliver a binding climate treaty, and with little hope of securing one this time, expectations for COP16 were purposefully set low.
Schlegel et al . opine that their results suggest that (1) "some individuals will exhibit enhanced fertilization success in acidified oceans, supporting the concept of 'winners' and 'losers' of climate change at an individual level." And they say that if these differences are heritable, it is likely that (2) "ocean acidification will lead to selection against susceptible phenotypes as well as to rapid fixation of alleles that allow reproduction under more acidic conditions," which phenomena "may ameliorate the biotic effects of climate change if taxa have sufficient extant genetic variation upon which selection can act."
" essentially describes a fictitious mechanism, in which a planetary atmosphere acts as a heat pump driven by an environment that is radiatively interacting with but radiatively equilibrated to the atmospheric system.
But it's on the regulatory front that the duplicity, exaggeration, fabrication and betrayal of our public trust are really outrageous and used to amass more power and control over our energy, economy, job creation and living standards, close down companies and industries that regulators detest, and advance crony corporatist deals with favored entities, regardless of costs or impacts on jobs, health and welfare.
Some may be tempted to attribute Vilsack's missteps to inadvertent bumbling by his advisers within the Agriculture Department. But a likelier explanation is the malevolent influence of USDA Deputy Secretary Kathleen Merrigan, who boasts a long and unsavory history of pro-organic, anti-biotechnology advocacy and actions. While a staffer on the Senate Agriculture Committee during the 1980s, Merrigan was instrumental in obstructing the approval of bioengineered veterinary drugs and in excluding genetically engineered crops from the "organic" rubric. Her record of anti-biotechnology activism constitutes an obvious conflict of interest that should have required her recusal from biotech-related deliberations and meetings at the USDA (or better still, prevented her appointment to the department).
Heres a similar plot for annual CRU NH 1850-2008, showing more texture in the differences between the various autocorrelation models. Zero trend (under fracdiff autocorrelation) is not precluded at a 95% level. However, these graphs show more clearly than the bare statistic that this is a two-edged sword: double the observed trend is likewise not precluded at a 85% level.
But what about the drought? The 1936 drought was at least as bad as the 2012 drought.
The Arctic sea ice has probably reached its greatest extent for this year. It usually occurs at the end of March last year it was March 21st. There have been some reports that this years maximum extent was the lowest since satellite monitoring began in 1979, and it certainly looks low hovering around 13 million km2 for over a month, see Fig 1 (click on image to enlarge). But looking back over past behavior its maximum extent was similar last year and in 2011 and 2005-7 (Fig 2). Hence this years extent is not that unusual being similar to that observed ten years ago!
Can the presence of CO2 be shown in a lab to increase absorption of incoming radiation?
It is summer in the southern hemisphere and yet there is still signifiicantly above normal amounts of sea ice present as the passengers and crew of one tour ship discovered. The icebreakers Xue Long and Aurora Australis , and a French research vessel Astrolabe are cruising towards the Akademik Shokalskiy at full throttle for rescue. Photos and maps follow.
Probably no single issue damages the reputation of the climate science community more than the refusal to show the data that supports their work, even under an FOI request. The public believes that scientists who purport to be concerned about the future of the planet should not place their own financial interests, including future grants, ahead of this concern, particularly when their research has been done with public funds.
served as CEO to Al Gore's: http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/03/zoi-goes-to-dc.php
I have previously written that plastic bags can kill marine turtles particularly Leatherbacks, click here .