Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
I got to thinking about the (non) adjustment of the GISS temperature data for the Urban Heat Island effect, and it reminded me that I had once looked briefly at Anchorage, Alaska in that regard. So I thought Id take a fresh look. I used the GISS (NASA) temperature data available here .
In today's Washington Times, Robert Stacy McCain recounts Christopher Buckley's appearance at last night's CEI Dinner.
A facility equipped with boilers that currently burn fuel oil wanted to change its boilers so they could burn natural gas, which would reduce emissions of SO2 and NOX. It may also result in a fuel cost savings. Although emissions of SO2 and NOX would decrease significantly, the facility projected emissions of VOCs and CO would increase slightly. These increases could trigger NSR and expensive retrofitting, and the facility is likely to conclude the project is no longer viable and continue to burn oil.
YET HERE IS A GIANT counterexample. The Fox Network, which is a vital part of the News Corporation, is helping to promote the film. On May 12, Fox featured a 10-minute preview of The Day After Tomorrowon prime time. This film is being used as an overtly political project to promote a green agenda, as even a casual look at the "Weather Gone Wild" section of the film's official website shows (it doesn't feature meteorologists getting drunk on Daytona Beach, alas).
The preamble continues by defining global warming as ?the idea that the world?s average temperature has been increasing over the past 150 years ??
Dr. Michaels: If you take a look at the IPCC??s latest volume, by the year 2100,they have two inches of sea-level rise resulting from the loss of Greenlandice. Nottwo feet. Not 20 feet. Two inches! That??s the ???consensus of scientists,?? okay. Whether or not we believe in consensus science, that??s what they say.
An outspoken critic of the Obama administration's energy and climate policies, Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK) said, "This report is part of the game the president is playing to distract Americans from his unchecked regulatory agenda that is costing our nation middle class jobs, new economic opportunities, and our ability to be energy independent."
According to Kent and Coopers chart, only two maybe three volcanoes erupted in the Cascade Range during the Maunder Minimum.
There are exceptions. When the Czechoslovak government in London needed to execute a blonde beast called Reinhardt Heydrich, perhaps the main father of the Holocaust and a gangster who acted as if he were a leader of 2/3 of Czechoslovakia for almost a year (1941-1942) just because a nutcase with one testicle told him that he was one, they sent several parachutists including two shooters. This "backup" is what governments or companies do when they want to be "insured" that the maneuver will work. And indeed, the first executer's gun got jammed which is why the second one was ready and useful because he could throw the hand grenade that killed the beast after some delay in the hospital. It worked fine. Thousands of Czech lives (including two whole villages) were terminated in the hysteria afterwards but it was needed for the Czechs not to be a nation of complete cowards and collaborators.
On Sunday, CBS claimed that Antarctica is melting. In fact, once small portion of the Antarctic peninsula is warming and may be losing snow, while the rest of Antarctica has not been warming and in fact has been gaining ice cover. The show visits an island off the Antarctic Peninsula which has about as much weather relevance and predictive power to the rest of Antarctica as Key West has to the rest of the United States. Absolutely absurd.
"The first sentence in Marion Clawson's Forests for Whom and for What? begins, `Forests serve the American people in many ways and have the potential to serve more people in better and more generous ways.' This same insight can be expanded to include all of humanity and all the world's forests." (True State of the Planet, pp. 204-205)
Cook the books has a favorite small-boy yah-boo tactic. He condemns anyone who raises any question about global warming, however sensible, as perpetrating or perpetuating what he calls climate myths.
Data supporting the link between consumption of red meat and cancer are, as Kelly and Stier point out, "flimsy at best," with the IRAC admitting that "there is limited evidence for the carcinogenicity of the consumption of red meat" and "no clear association was seen in the high-quality studies." Nevertheless, IRAC made a big splash in the media with its announcement about red meat and cancer and its equally weak conclusions about processed meat and cancer.
provides clear evidence FDRs New Deal actually prolonged the Great Depression and that World War II did nothing to create prosperity...Higgs also demonstrates how little-known changes in weapons procurement policy in 194041 transformed the role of defense contractors in the political economy, why the U.S. civilian economy foundered during the Second World War, and how historians and economists have disregarded or misunderstood the economys rapid postwar return to genuine prosperity.
For the past decade, scientists have come to the defense of Michael Mann, somehow thinking that defending Michael Mann is fighting against the ?war on science? and is standing up for academic freedom. Its time to let Michael Mann sink or swim on his own. Michael Mann is having all these problems because he chooses to try to muzzle people that are critical of Mann?s science, critical of Mann?s professional and personal behavior, and critical of Mann?s behavior as revealed in the climategate emails. All this has nothing to do with defending climate science or academic freedom.
Now, what I do not fully understand is why the IPCC claims that the ocean heat content increases indeed ARE consistent with the climate models, despite the relatively high sensitivity of all of the IPCC models. While some might claim that it is because warming is actually occurring much deeper in the ocean than 700 m, the vertical profiles I have seen suggest warming decreases rapidly with depth, and has been negligible at a depth of 700 m.
NW Wash Costco Milk: $2.50/gallon - - SW BC Costco Milk: $4.45/gallon --> 78% more expensive There is more at issue than just the volume of Canadians heading to the city. The notion of striving to act like a good ambassador while in another country seems to have been discarded in favour of rushing for good deals (think Black Friday). Here's but one example . You can listen live beginning at 11:05am PT (2:05pm ET) here . You can also participate in the discussion by calling 1-877-399-9898 or you can e-mail Roy Green ahead of time with your thoughts & questions. Update: Those who missed the discussion can listen to it here .
A Serious Problem With The Use Of The Global Averaged Surface Temperature Trend To Diagnose Global Warming and Cooling
The first thing they will do, and the one thing I think they were always going to succeed in doing at this conference is to agree to establish what will be delicately called the institutional framework. Now that is a code word for world government.
Plentiful gas from the Marcellus shale formation has persuaded Shell to plan a $2-biillion ethane "cracking" plant near Pittsburgh creating 10,000 construction jobs and 10,000 permanent jobs. Steel plants, electric utilities and countless other industries will also benefit from shale gas.
AndrewMontford,author of The Hockey Stick Illusion (2010), blogs at Bishop Hill .
Clean Energy Incentive Program: Why It Makes EPA's Power Plant Rule Even More Unlawful
A year and a half ago, the Climate-gate scandals showed that "scientists" ? actually, government-funded global warming activists ? were skewing climate data and trying to silence climate change skeptics.
""They warned us at first that we had to move the vegetables from the front, that no vegetables were allowed in the front yard. We didn't move them because we didn't think we were doing anything wrong, even according to city code we didn't think we were doing anything wrong. So they ticketed us and charged me with a misdemeanor," Bass said . . ."
So, the EU Climate Minister saying it doesn't matter whether the global warming science is wrong. She seems to think that higher costing energy will help raise people out of poverty. How How does that make sense?
Following up on Anthonys comments, I have been digging a little, using Tims links. The Littlebrook power station just to the west of the QE Bridge does discharge warm water from its condenser into the Thames. The intake and outflow are the two circles in the Thames, visible in the Bing ariel view if you scroll left. The PDF document on the site that Tim linked says:
Twenty years later came a new development. The demagogic UNESCO projects about a New World Information and Communication Order did not disappear when the US and the UK left the organization in protest and UNESCO, as a result, lost one fourth of its budget. The NWICO project was simply quietly transferred from Paris to New York, from UNESCO headquarters to UN headquarters. Over the years, the UN-New York developed its radio and TV station and its global network of 60 centers. It has provided "training" to Third World journalists (with a particular predilection for Palestinians) and built both a formal and informal media empire on which the sun never sets. By 1998, the UN spent a greater share of its budget on self-promotion and propaganda through its Department of Public Information (5.37 percent) than on Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs (4.96 percent) or International Justice and Law (2.10 percent).
The clouds and precipitation is cooling western Washington, but temperatures are surging over the Columbia Basin--some folks are already over 100F. Expect many temps above 105F, some reaching 110F
Full-throated presidential support for nuclear would not only help with the funding and regulatory issues, but also public acceptance. Venture capitalist Sam Altman has said that he believes that just as "the 20th century was clearly the carbon century the 22nd century is going to be the atomic power century. It's just a question of how long it takes us."
Figure 11 presents the 2014-to-date and 1982 Hovmollers for wind stress (not anomalies) along the equator. The simplest way to explain them is that theyre presenting the impacts of the strengths and directions of the trade winds on the surfaces of the equatorial oceans. In this presentation, the effects of the east to west trade winds at various strengths are shown in blues, and the reversals of the trade winds into westerlies are shown in yellows, oranges and reds.
Quoting one journalist, a George Mason University analysis found that U.S. media outlets pretty much agree that climate change is real, its happening, and were responsible. That debate is over. As a result, critics are no longer being interviewed, the study said. In the view of mainstream media outlets, seeking or presenting both sides on the climate issue is a false balance. At least one news organization now has an explicit editorial policy discouraging reporters from quoting climate change deniers in environment or science coverage, the Washington Examiner noted.
> >> of interest here at CRU, although IRI in the States would also be well
Figure 1.) Photo of the Western Pacific Ocean Kavachi sub-marine Volcano eruption plume as it breaks through to the surface (January 2014).
Also in April, the Environmental Protection Agency held a conference to address a problem many had thought confined to the past: bedbugs. "Don't let the bedbugs bite," is a cute saying with a troublesome past. In the past, tiny, flesh-eating bugs would often live inside wooden bed frames and feed on unsuspecting people as they slept. Bedbugs had been essentially eradicated in the U.S. and much of the developed world, but now they're making a comeback. Why?
???We need more. We need more of everything ??? wind power , renewables, hydro. But we will certainly need more coal,?? said Milton Catelin, CEO of the World Coal Association. He argued that with 1.5 billion people still living without access to electricity, coal needs to grow.
The main forms of human disturbance are the river-control structures such as dams and levees, the dredging of canals, and draining and filling.
On rainfall, there is almost always one model that is right because there are so many models and they all say different things.
The whacky world of climate alarmism is falling apart . The leading acolytes of the movement will continue to wail that its all the fault of those evil energy interests that supposedly make fellows like me question the theology of AGW theory, but in reality they have no one to blame for their increasing irrelevance but themselves.
The first part of Dr. Christy's testimony concludes:
Instead of complaining politely about the plan on the basis industry might lose some water, what about rural leaders pointing out the obvious: that the plan will deliver no environmental benefit until something is done about the 7.6 kilometres of concrete barrage that sits across the bottom of the Lower Lakes?
Climate change and renewable energy movements falter
EPA currently employs some 20,000 people at an annual budget of over $8 billion. The new hires alone would cost taxpayers another $24 billion annually plus hundreds of billions of dollars in economic pain, manufacturing shutdowns, and new job losses that EPA's CO2 regulations would inflict.
Genentech is another biotech giant funding the inaugural. One aspect of Genentech's pro-Obamacare lobbying in 2009 came to light in a New York Times article revealing that many members of Congress supporting Obamacare provisions read from a script prepared by Genentech's lobbyists.
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Phil, thanks for your thoughts ? guarantee there will be no dirty laundry in
Carbon dioxide emissions from non-Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countriessuch as China and Indiaare projected to grow by 9 billion tons per year. The Partnership for a Better Energy Future reports: "for every ton of CO2 reduced in 2030 as a result of EPA's rule, the rest of the world will have increased emissions by more than 16 tons." Our reduction in 2030 would offset the equivalent of just 13.5 days of CO2 emissions from China. The CPP will become the definition of "all pain and no gain." Or, as economist Thomas Sowell calls it: "replacing what worked with what sounded good."
"Bracing for an election cycle that will be marked by heavy outside spending, massive voter registration drives, and 16 months of presidential politicking, the American labor movement confronts a daunting slate of demographic changes and other trends that could make 2012 a rocky year for unions."
But Climategate was only the tip of the iceberg. An AR4 warning that unchecked climate change will melt most of the Himalayan glaciers by 2035 was found to be lifted from an erroneous World Wildlife Federation (WWF) report and misrepresented as peer-reviewed science. IPCC Chairman Rajendra Pachauri attempted to parry this ???mistake?? by accusing the accusers at the Indian environment ministry of ???arrogance?? and practicing ???voodoo science?? in issuing a report disputing the IPCC. But one in his own ranks, Dr Murari Lal, the coordinating lead author of the chapter making the claim, had the astoundingly bad manners to admit that he knew all along that it ???did not rest on peer-reviewed scientific research.?? Apparently , so had Pachauri, who continued to lie about it for months so as not to sully the exalted AR4 immediately prior to Copenhagen.
The amount of electricity produced from green energy sources in Scotland fell by almost half for a period earlier this year because it was not wet or windy enough. The figures prompted opposition concerns that Scotland could be left in the dark if the wind isnt blowing. Scot MacNab, The Scotsman, 28 September 2012 ( http://www.scotsman.com/news/environment/scotland-not-windy-enough-for-green-power-1-2550478 )
At the 4.47 mark Ottmar Edenhofer, deputy director of the PIK, forgets about what his boss had said was very easy to calculate , and shifts the blame for the Himalayan blunder on the IPCC overall peer-review process:
If youre so interested in creating more jobs, why not approve the Keystone pipeline, which will create tens of thousands of jobs? Wallace asked of the pipeline under review.
used the Treasury Department's Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, which he headed since its
"The long-term change for the Arctic sea ice has been very consistent. It shows a decline over these (past) three decades especially in the summer. In the past 3-4 years Arctic sea ice has been below the average for the last 30 years." That's great but the Arctic is not the globe. It's one percent of it or so. There are other places of the world where no "consistent" warming has occurred at all. The simplest example is the object on the other side from the Arctic, the Antarctica. Have you heard of that continent? It's not enough to find one place on Earth that's consistent with your hypothesis. Quite on the contrary: it's enough to find one place that's inconsistent with it to falsify it.
Over the past two weeks or so, several hundred protesters assembled outside the White House to oppose the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, which is designed to transport bitumen produced from oil sands in Alberta to refineries on the Gulf Coast. During the protest, actor Daryl Hannah, climate scientist James Hansen, and author and activist Bill McKibben were among some 1,200 people who were arrested.
The United States should be taking steps to ensure a sufficient supply of electricity to cope with the lower temperatures, but has been wasting billions to support renewable energy, wind and solar, that is costly and ineffective. The U.S. Energy Department projects that solar power will make up 0.6 percent of total U.S. electricity generation in 2015. Wind power which is funded in part by taxpayer subsidies to stay in business has received $7.3 billion over the past seven years, but produces a minimal amount of electricity to justify its cost.
he is presented as a co-author of the Berkeley Earth temperature record (BEST). He criticizes the climate skeptics who want to interpret every adjustment as something criminal.
Frozen $46m runway melting shouts the news on dozens of Fairfax sites from newspapers in towns large and small across our wide brown land.
1. The science that predicts the extent of Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) is not settled science. (Jan 2013)
Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) cites the White House's plans to apply the Clean Air Act to global warming as an excuse for Congress to pass "cap and trade" legislation.
"As the expedition descended the Coca watershed towards the Napo river, their provisions and their Andean Indian bearers gave out Disheartened and starving, Pizarro ordered the construction of a raft, sending his second-in-command Orellana ahead to find food. Orellana and his fifty companions never returned. Instead they became the first white men to descend from the headwaters to the mouth of the Amazon. Incensed by the treachery of Orellana and frustrated in his attempts to seek out the kingdom of El Dorado, a furious Pizarro made his return to Quito." (The Fate of the Forest, Cockburn, pp. 6-7)
Obama should take a lesson from his political hero, the last truly great Democratic president, Franklin D. Roosevelt. If World War II had not come, FDR might have ended up an average president. His New Deal, we now know, did not end the Great Depression, though it did wreck his own political party. But FDR joined the pantheon of Washington and Lincoln by foreseeing and preparing for the existential threat posed by Hitler and the Axis powers. As FDR himself said, "Dr. New Deal" had to give way to "Dr. Win the War."
S. Raghavan is also an author with A.K. Sen Sarma of the Chapter entitled Tropical cyclone impacts in India and neighborhood in Pielke, R.A., Jr. and R.A. Pielke, Sr., Editors, 2000: Storms, Volumes I and II, Routledge Press, London. His work is obviously of significance in the context of the impacts of Hurricane Katrina in the United States.
Scientists, Czymzik et al., analyzing 450 years of data from Germany, found the IPCC's increased flooding prediction to be the total opposite of reality. Instead, it was determined that colder climates have a greater frequency of floods.
Global atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide have increased markedly as a result of human activities since 1750 and now far exceed pre-industrial values determined from ice cores spanning many thousands of years.
Frigid Spring Freezes Global Warming Claims
The issue of separating natural from anthropogenically forced variability, particularly in context of the attribution of 20th century climate change, has been a topic of several previous threads at Climate Etc. The issue of natural vs anthropogenically forced climate variability/change has been a key issue of contention between the climate establishment and skeptics. There are some encouraging signs that the climate establishment is maturing in their consideration of this issue.
Paradoxically enough, the first Persian astronaut has paid her trip herself. Anousheh Ansari has also become the first Muslim woman in space and the first female space tourist in the world. Congratulations.
"The most pessimistic model projects five to seven times as many heat-related deaths in Los Angeles, with six to eight times as many heat waves. Snow pack and high altitude forests would shrink up to 90%. The scientists' temperature projections are higher than previous estimates, particularly in summer. Their predictions of an extreme decline in snow pack, alpine forests and the spread of desert areas all exceed earlier projections."
While certainly the burning of coal for power generation produces some costs that lie outside the market forces acting to establish the price of electricity, the magnitude of those externalities is anybodys guess. Epstein et al. have extended their wild guess. Last year, the National Research Council extended theirsit was about half that of the Epstein groups best estimate. And, from judicious use of the scientific literature, yet lower estimates can be justified. In fact, there are even some estimates that the externalities from coal-fired electricity may prove to be positive.
Of course there is a spectrum of views on climate as she points out which range from outright disbelief that temperatures are rising at all to acceptance of a measurable human signal in the global temperature record. However, she portrays this range of views in a very simplistic manner in an attempt to ridicule those who dare question the consensus.
Mr. Bloomberg's Arverne by the Sea initiative transformed what he called "a swath of vacant land" into a "vibrant and growing oceanfront community," with "affordable" homes starting at $559,000. (The land was vacant because a 1950 storm wiped it clean of structures.) The new homes were built on 167 acres of land raised five feet above the surrounding Far Rockaway area. Those Arverne homes mostly survived Sandy. But the high ground caused storm surges to rise higher and move faster elsewhere than they would have on Rockaway lowlands that are always hit head-on by northward moving storms.
A careful analysis of global temperature graphs from each of the measurement agencies confirm that ??? despite variations between them ??? there has not been any notable warming since 2000. Depending on which graphs you use, global temperatures since 2000 have been more or less flat. Some, such as the GISS data, show a modest rise, while others show negligible movement and even a small fall in recent years.
The researchers hypothesize that long-term warming may change the community of soil microorganisms so that it becomes more efficient. Organism adaptation, change in the species that comprise the soils, and/or changes in the availability of various nutrients could result in this increased efficiency.