Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
With increased national Doppler radar coverage, increasing population, and greater attention to tornado reporting, there has been an increase in the number of tornado reports over the past several decades . This can create a misleading appearance of an increasing trend in tornado frequency. To better understand the variability and trend in tornado frequency in the U.S., the total number EF1 and stronger, as well as strong to violent tornadoes (EF3 to EF5 category on the Enhanced Fujita scale) can be analyzed. These are the tornadoes that would have likely been reported even during the decades before Doppler radar use became widespread and practices resulted in increasing tornado reports.
McCullough, David. The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1977.
2 Rest assured, the concept of man over nature does not imply the domination and spoliation of nature by man. It simply means the removal of scarcity that is a product of capitalismor so the Marxists say. You could easily incorporate the reduction of capitalist waste and its effect on global climate change into the liberation of man without offending Trotskyas long as the control of the means of production was held by the masses and their unifying party, the Bolsheviki.
There are already 170,000 miles of pipeline in America, moving oil and natural gas to fuel our cars and trucks, warm our homes and apartments, and, in the case of oil, to be turned in the zillion uses of plastic and other products such as asphalt to pave our streets and highways.
NAM, along with another powerful industry group, the American Chemistry Council, endorsed the DOE findings, even though most of its members, particularly chemical companies, could see modest natural gas price rises, a marginal cost in manufacturing processes.
Because politicians get to play with other peoples money, hope continually triumphs over experience, andthey neverlearn what three MIT scholars learned from the Carter administrations energy programs :
But that funding is only available to those who toe the consensus line that human activity is causing dangerous amounts of global warming. Telling the world that mankinds big climate break came when global temperatures were several degrees higher than today would needlessly put a paleoanthropologists academic and television career at risk.
Magnitude 6.1 NEW BRITAIN REGION, PAPUA NEW GUINEA
Reporter Scott Pelley prompted chief federal firefighter Tom Boatner with the statement, "You know, there are a lot of people who don't believe in climate change."
So far, the only email on which RC has seen fit to comment is one from CRU director Phil Jones dated Nov. 16, 1999, 13:31. It's gotten a lot of buzz on the Internet, because it appears to advocate the use of a "trick" to "hide" a "decline" in global temperatures.
Average Radiative Imbalance from increasing ocean heat content: 0.2 W m-2
Availability of data The committee report that CRU was bound by confidentiality agreements (32) and was therefore unable to release its station data. They do not discuss how CRU was able to make the data available to sympathetic scientists like Peter Webster.
The issue of where Sahel climate is going is contentious, Some models predict a wetter future; others, a drier one. They cannot all be right.
UPDATE: The ABC are running scared from real debate again. My polite comment with links to the original Composta article, and links to my analysis of Lewandowsky is another ABC Reject. (My comment was essentially the words between - and - above.)
Diplomats from the world's major greenhouse-gas emitters met recently at the State Department to discuss a potential U.N. agreement to fight global warming. Commenting on a lack of attention paid by the Bush administration to the urgent need to address global warming, U.S. special envoy for climate change Todd Stern said, "They were not fundamentally looking for an international agreement."
Replication can also reveal whether researchers have properly disclosed their data. For example, in preparing my testimony for Mrs. Boxer's 2008 U.S. Senate hearings on polar bear populations, I requested data from government-funded research that led to a dire forecast. My request was refused.
This is one of those statements that are technically true, but totally obtuse at the same time. Issuing formal get-out-of-jail-free cards to 5 million people is unprecedented. Think of it this way: Imagine a Republican President who is opposed to the minimum wage. The Executive branch is tasked with enforcing that law, so wold the folks defending the President's methods also arguehat the government can issue permits to 5 million businesses allowing them toignore labor law? Or emissions standards? Or insider trading laws?
After many, many years of trying, the goal has yet to be reached Read More
The difficulty for them is to maintain their own minority status while insisting in public that the skeptics ? are very few. (page 68)
Haigh claims that the evidence about cloud formation being induced by cosmic rays points to a weak mechanism, then simply ignores the report??s admission of substantial evidence that some such mechanism must be at work:
As the concentration of CO 2 in the atmosphere continues to increase, rice plants will likely display higher rates of photosynthesis, regardless of nitrogen availability. This phenomenon should enhance carbohydrate production in rice and allow plants to attain greater size, weight, and yield. And the greater the availability of nitrogen in the soil, the greater the anticipated growth increase.
One factor is a form of loyalty to colleagues. Another, bearing in mind the singular nature of the funding source, is the need to eat. But mostly it gets back to the uncertainty of the science. The typical climate researcher is reluctant to go public with contrary opinion not backed by something very close to real proof.And there is very little real proof on either side of the climatechange story. Contrary opinion in an era where postmodern science is almost respectable can be dangerous to a research career.
Airlines that fail to cover emissions with allowances face a penalty of Eur100 for each mt of CO2 not covered.
Nearly 28,000 people died in Britain last winter, most of them pensioners who could not afford adequate heat. Charities say this is the highest winter death rate in northern Europe, worse even than much colder nations like Finland and Sweden. And this winter has already seen the coldest December night for Wales in 169 years of record keeping. It was Britain's coldest December in 120 years.
"In the words of the authors, they "examined the distribution of flood peaks for the eastern United States using annual maximum flood peak records from 572 U.S. Geological Survey stream gaging stations with at least 75 years of observations.".....Of even greater interest to the climate change debate, however, were their more basic findings that (1) "only a small fraction of stations exhibited significant linear trends," that (2) "for those stations with trends, there was a split between increasing and decreasing trends," and that (3) "no spatial structure was found for stations exhibiting trends." Thus, they were literally forced to conclude, most importantly of all, that (4) "there is little indication that human-induced climate change has resulted in increasing flood magnitudes for the eastern United States.""
To put it in other terms, our own government has engaged in lying to Americans, and the result has been the expenditure of billions of taxpayer dollars on something that was not happening and is not happening.
In Australia, the maximum electricity demand occurs at about 6.30 pm in mid-winter in the big southern cities. However, the maximum solar power is generated at noon in mid-summer in clear northern deserts. If the nightly solar curfew is to be supplied by solar power, this necessitates a vast area of collectors to provide daytime grid power as well as charging a storage backup which supplies power at night. The scattered solar collectors also need a huge new transmission network. Such a system is inefficient and very costly.
Global Warming's New Clothes Written by Rosslyn Smith
Read that again: never seen more snow fall in a 24-hour period.
The NSW Farmers Association says its shocked the states planning minister has labelled the lobby group as almost irrelevant to consultation on coal seam gas development, saying the government has not listened to them.
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Director of Energy Policy Myron Ebell on the folly of
Finding himself unable to defend the proposition that approval of Keystone XL would have any measurable effect on temperatures even in the extreme case, the marginal GHG emissions from the pipeline would raise temperatures by something on the order of one ten-thousandth of a degree Sachs attempts to change the subject by tying Keystone XL with a global "carbon budget" that purportedly would limit temperature increases to 2 C. Based upon somewhat dated analysis by Professor Richard S.J. Tol of the economic effects of climate change, the carbon budget, however much a political construct, nonetheless is irrelevant in terms of Keystone XL, since the GHG emissions from the pipeline, again, would be trivial.
Bill Gates attacks traditional capitalism as not doing enough to help people in the poorest countries of the world.
H. Leighton Steward, chairman of the non-profit Plants Need CO2, noted that many of the former NASA scientists harbored doubts about the significance of the C02-climate change theory and have concerns over NASAs advocacy on the issue. While making presentations in late 2011 to many of the signatories of the letter, Steward realized that the NASA scientists should make their concerns known to NASA and the GISS.
These are hyper-partisan times, but both parties in Congress can agree that they don't like being pushed around by the President. In the Senate, Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) has joined with Democratic colleagues Blanche Lincoln (Arkansas), Ben Nelson (Nebraska), and Mary Landrieu (Louisiana) to sponsor legislation that would strip the Environmental Protection Agency of the authority to regulate greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act. This is the same legislation that Sens. Conrad and Burns are considering, the so-called "Dirty Air Act." In the House, North Dakotan Democrat Rep. Earl Pomeroy is offering similar legislation.
Lost in the debate is the fact that polar bear numbers have dramatically increased over the past forty years a fact even liberal environmental activists are forced to concede. According to Canadian scientists, 11 of the 13 bear populations are stable, with some increasing. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service now estimates that there are currently 20,000 to 25,000 polar bears. These numbers are substantially up from lows estimates in the range of 5,000-10,000 in the 1950s and 1960s. Credit should be given to protection already provided the polar bear by way of the Marine Mammal Protection Act, the several international conservation treaties including the 1973 Agreement on the Conservation of Polar Bears and the U.S.-Russia Polar Bear Conservation and Management Act of 2006, as well as conservation, education, and outreach agreement with native peoples.
Even the clause guaranteeing ``protection of intellectual property rights'' is of little value, since governments routinely use compulsory licensing to override foreign patents (just ask the pharmaceutical industry).
NASA??s blatantly, bogus temperatures (lies?) are an attempt to scare the public into thinking the ice sheets of Greenland are quickly melting away because of unprecedented ???high?? temperatures, including those maximum high temperatures forecasted for the ice sheet this week: an average of a -35F (yes, minus) for the daily high temps . Obviously, the northern ice sheets are safe despite the bogus NASA and Monbiot Arctic alarmism.
Our rain shadow is most evident when the winds along the coast are westerly (from the west), because of their interactions with the Olympics.
"Moments before he was to stand trial for bilking The Meadows Racetrack and Casino out of nearly a half-million dollars in fraudulent jackpots, a Swissvale man was arrested Monday by federal authorities, who say he actually may have stolen as much as $1.4 million from casinos in the U.S. and abroad."
Obama: "We have doubled the distance our cars will go on a gallon of gas,":
Failure to take due account of relevant published work which documented the above lapses, while disregarding IPCC criteria for inclusion in the assessment process;
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reports about two major hurricanes, on average, make landfall somewhere along the Gulf or Atlantic coast every three years. The year with the most is 2005, when four major hurricanes made landfalls in the United States (Dennis, Katrina, Rita, and Wilma), with Wilma setting records as the strongest Atlantic hurricane on record. As Roy Spencer said, " after the record-setting 2005 Atlantic hurricane season, with a whopping 27 named tropical storms, the bottom pretty much dropped out of hurricane activity since then."
But hasn't Mr. Bush been hypocritical? It's true that, during the first term, he let expediency in domestic politics influence decisions in international economics. I'm thinking of the steel tariffs he imposed in March 2002 and lifted two years later. Don't expect that sort of cynicism in the second termsince Mr. Bush can't run for a third. Instead, anticipate that Mr. Bush will push hard to open new markets and to lower barriers in the United States. He has no doubts about the benefits of free trade.
Herbert and Joyce Morgan Fellow in Energy and Environmental PolicyThomas A. Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies
No, it wasn't a conspiracy plotted by Big Oil or Republican operatives using mercenary hackers after all. And unless you happen to get all your news from the mainstream media, you will undoubtedly recognize that by "Climategate", I'm referring here to the thousands of leaked email communications between prominent international researchers within the U.K.'s University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit (CRU) network. That person (yes, single individual) has come forth to shed light on a real conspiracy one to spread false alarm about a concocted global warming crisis.
on Wednesday, September 15th, 2010 at 6:51 pm and is filed under News.
So what's going to happen next? There's no current ban on exports of natural gas. Supplies are exported to a limited number of countries with which the US has a free trade agreement. However, regulations passed when the country faced a severe shortage and high prices still require the government to determine whether an export permit is in the "public interest." The DOE report was considered the next to last step in that process. The final decision is now in the hands of the Administration.
Obviously this was a bit of a problem for the Scare Campaign. Much of the amplifying feedback created in the models also creates the hot-spot, so without any evidence that the hot-spot is occurring, there goes the disaster (and the urgent need for funding and junkets).
German Utility Criticizes EU Emissions Plan
Undoubtedly this result would have taken place without the CAA, given the higher cost of running inefficient older plants. But the CAA's heavier controls on new plants increased the relative price of energy produced from new sources, giving existing coal companies a strong incentive to keep their older plants in service long past their economically useful life. The companies found it easier to modify existing facilities than to put a new plant on line. The higher new plant standards also blocked off new entrants into the energy business, unnecessarily increasing industry concentration levels and further raising prices.
We were told that Austin is growing by 100 to 150 people per day. Per day!
Bjorn Lomborg's ongoing publicity campaign for his new film makes it obvious that the fight against the delusion of dangerous man-made global warming remains an uphill struggle.
There are wonks on our side, believe it or not, who support penalizing hospitals for return admissions. I would say it is another example of finger pointing that is finding misconduct when there may be perfectly good reasons for why people have return hospitalizations.
The headline at Science Daily is that wildfires and other burns lead to climate change. The paper itself asks: As such, particle burn-off of clouds may be a major underrecognized source of global warming. For me what matters are the deaths in the here and now:
Puls: That is one of the worst myths used for generating climate hysteria. Polar bears dont eat ice, they eat seals. Polar bears go hungry if we shoot their food supply of seals. The polar bear population has increased with moderately rising temperatures, from 5000 50 years ago to 25,000 today .
The advertisement doesn't identify what Washington is doing to "weaken the Clean Air Act," so it's impossible to know what legislation or regulation the American Lung Association intends to protect. But it is demonstrably false that "more pollution means more childhood asthma attacks," which is the fundamental claim made in the advertisement.
So the Colorado legislature expressed its intention to tap the brakes on the EPA's climate plan, and now Hickenlooper wants to put the pedal to the metal in order to accelerate past federal targets. In effect, the governor is acting in contravention to the stated intent of the people of Colorado's elected representatives, just like Obama is doing to Congress.
every so often. The most recent example is today, in an article by Charles Holman of The Washington Monthly,
A smoking gun. This particular one is a smoking gun of someone else than string theory, however.
Full Frontal Nudity Doesn't Make Us Safer: Abolish the TSA:
Gingrich and Terry L. Maple have something of a sequel in the works to their 2007 book, A Contract with The Earth, tentatively titled Environmental Entrepreneurs.
In all three enforcement areas, current EPA policy has led to confusion and delay as EPA issues conflicting letters and decisions and state agencies, which are given NSR permitting authority in most states, attempt to interpret and apply those policies. One result is conflict between federal EPA and state agencies.
No one can claim that the answer is that the Chinese and Indian governments have signaled their readiness to respond in kind to U.S. GHG curbs. To the contrary, they continue to insist that the developed countries must commit to pay them for any control costs that they incur. The Chinese and Indian governments' statements are consistent with their behavior. These countries are clearly more interested in dodging the costs of GHG curbs than in capturing the gains from a global control regime.
The media never seemed to report the real economic impact of the CFC ban. Replacing CFCs was not at all easy. There really are no suitable, safe, and affordable replacements for Halon fire control systems. Most propellants were not too difficult to replace (although many are flammable). One notable exception is the CFC propellant used in metered dose inhalers of asthma medication. CFCs were ideal for this application because they are both chemically and biologically inert. Eventually, the pharmaceutical industry found a solution: hydrofluoroalkanes (HFA). Of course, this new delivery method meant that previously inexpensive generic drugs (e.g., albuterol) suddenly became expensive proprietary drugs. The CFC ban effectively tripled the cost of managing asthma.
Fishermen and seafood-dependent communities in New England are battening down the hatches, fearing that an Obama administration move to create a giant Atlantic Marine Monument will spell the end to their way of life.
Dr Pearman referred to 95 and 99 percentiles as measures of the proof of an hypothesis in the same breathe claiming that that there was more than 90 percent proof that global warming is a consequence of greenhouse gas emission. Yet this 90 percent figure, sometimes used by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, is not from the testing of a falsifiable hypothesis but rather a political expression of the strength of opinion.
Im positive that this window is what is causing the damage to my car, says Patron.
EPA statistics regarding the six principal sources of air pollution in 199811 show:
Court accuses EPA of filibustering on pesticide safety
In southeastern Massachusetts on February 25, 2015. The U.S. Coast Guard warned mariners of severe ice conditions in coastal waterways and noted that its ice-breaking capabilities were limited by the thickness of the ice. Many navigational buoys and other markers were knocked off their locations or submerged by sea ice, and the Coast Guard encouraged ships to sail by daylight and in visibility of at least one mile.
I cannot reconcile Gordon's claim with the actual data on the US economy. The data on growth rates (from BEA and US Census , which Gordon has confirmed to me as the correct datasets to use) shows the following rates of change in per capita GDP growth at the break points identified by Gordon:
The trustworthiness of the scientific community's global warming data pool is being called into question as the scandal over climate data continues to unfold.The latest revelation came on Sunday with the publication of a report by The Sunday Times of London that scientists at the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit in the United Kingdom confessed to throwing out most of the raw temperature data on which the theory of global warming is founded.The discarded data isn't lost permanently, since archives exist in other locations, notably servers at the Global Historical Climatology Network. Yet CRU's actions make it more challenging for other scientists to cross-check the facts.
Global Warming Panel to Earths Rescue, on UNs Dime?
In his comment, Brian Cox wrote lots of wrong things about locality in quantum mechanics and the Pauli principle but he also mentioned the lunar story:
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Senior Fellow Iain Murray on the nature of record temperatures:
If I had one thing to do over again I would not have talked so much about green. Even though I believe in global warming and I believe in the science, it just took on a connotation that was too elitist; it was too precious and it let opponents think that if you had a green initiative, you didn't care about jobs. I'm a businessman. That's all I care about, is jobs.
The probability models fit the old data well, but nobody can ever know how well they will fit future data. The result is that over reliance on hard data means that probabilities of extreme events are underestimated and mundane events overestimated. The simple way to state this is the system is built to engender overconfidence. 2
of messy ground wars and lengthy occupations that have drained America's treasury and spirit for the past decades.
After a poll released this week showed President Barack Obama only beating his Democratic primary opponent John Wolfe Jr. by seven points, 45 percent to 38 percent, in Arkansas's Fourth Congressional District, state Democrats moved to practically disenfranchise Arkansas voters. "elegates Wolfe might claim won't be recognized at the national convention," national party officials are telling state Democrats. Wolfe is being accused of not following the party rules. They want a coronation, Wolfe tells THE WEEKLY STANDARD. Theyre conflating with the party. Are we supposed to call him Dear Leader? Is this some kind of North Korea thing? Related! h/t Bemused
These ?scientists? have already reached their conclusion that global warming is real and progressing, despite the inconvenient truth that global temperatures have not risen over the past 15 years, even with increasing carbon dioxide emissions. ?Who pressed the pause button?? on global warming, asks The Economist.