Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
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But the big news, Watson, is missing from our papers expanding sea-ice in Antarctica . Is this why southern Australia has had its chilliest July in almost two decades and first snow in Hobart since 1986?
???the annual mean temperature in the mid-thirteenth century was 0.9 degree C higher, the monthly mean January temperature was 0.6 degree C higher and the mean extreme minimum temperature was probably 3.5 degree C higher than at present??
Congress, Ready to Drive a Stake Through the Climate Vampire's Heart
CO2 has increased by 10% over the last 18 years, with no warming. This complete lack of correlation has convinced climate experts that CO2 is even more dangerous than they previously believed.
As Fox report, Chinas latest ploy is to ignore current emissions and focus on cumulative emissions since the start of the Industrial Revolution. China Daily , for instance, state:
Science is supposed to be about the pursuit of knowledge: challenging hypotheses, testing and validating new theories, and being skeptical until a theory can be validated or falsified. As Ted Koppel admonished Al Gore during an interview in the early "90s:
In keeping with the total and complete stubbornness of the paleoclimate community, they use the most famous series of Mann et al 2008: the contaminated Korttajarvi sediments, the problems with which are well known in skeptic blogs and which were reported in a comment at PNAS by Ross and I at the time. The original author, Mia Tiljander, warned against use of the modern portion of this data, as the sediments had been contaminated by modern bridgebuilding and farming. Although the defects of this series as a proxy are well known to readers of skeptical blogs, peer reviewers at Nature were obviously untroubled by the inclusion of this proxy in a temperature reconstruction.
Without tipping into hysteria? Here are two versions of the front cover of the book,
It should have been clear to experts that the scenario was pure nonsense, and not because so much icein this region could ever melt in just 25 years, but also because the Himalayan glacier area given in the IPCC report was completely false. It is only 33,000 square kilometers and not a grotesque 500,000.
AGU response implicitly supports Grijalva (D-Ariz.) A failure of leadership by Margaret Leinen President, AGU
Evidence for cosmic ray modulation in temperature records from the South Atlantic Magnetic Anomaly region
"Obesity is, in truth, among our least tractable public-health problems."
According to Greenwire (May 5, 2011), Rep. Glenn Thompson (R-Pennsylvania), chairman of the House Agriculture Committee's subcommittee on conservation, energy, and forestry, the Forest Service in engaging in "mission creep" by requiring the cataloguing of invertebrate species and incorporation climate change language in the planning rule. Thompson fears this will unleash litigation that will tie up the Forest Service for years.
Lord Christopher Monckton, Third Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, has been a leader of CFACT's delegations to numerous UN summits. He has held positions with the British press and in government, as a press officer at the Conservative Central Office and as Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's policy adviser. Monckton advised Thatcher on technical issues such as warship hydrodynamics, psephological modeling; embryological research, hydrogeology, public-service investment analysis, public welfare modeling, and epidemiological analysis. He is author of a detailed analysis and summary of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Changes's Fourth Assessment Report.
4. Rise in global temperature has not been induced by increase to anthropogenic emissions of carbon dioxide. More than 80% of the anthropogenic emissions of carbon dioxide has been since 1940, and the increase to the emissions has been at a compound rate of ~0.4% p.a. throughout that time. But that time has exhibited 40 years of cooling with only 28 years of warming, and global temperature is now similar to that of 1940.
China already the top consumer will drive two-thirds of the growth in global coal use this decade. Half of Chinas power generation capacity to be built between 2012 and 2020 will be coal-fired, said Woodmac.
Because the laws of thermodynamics and physics that govern our system says so.
But right now, the ordinary people of the world have greater liberty and more material benefits then they've ever had at any time since the beginning of civilization.
But whatever it is, Cap and Trade is not a jobs program. This should be obvious. If the Obama Administration argued that we should further complicate the tax code, so as to create more jobs for lawyers and accountants, they would be laughed out of the room. The fact that people must work harder to comply with new regulations is a cost of such policies, not a benefit.
For some issues, the Sanger and Mann books complement one another by offering different pieces of the
Since the experts made this warning, Antarctica sea ice area has steadily increased to record highs.
The Governor of the Windward Islands has now sent out an appeal to the neighboring islands stating the facts, and asking that roots, slips, and seeds of potatoes, cassava, yams, peas, and other economic plants be forwarded as soon as possible to enable cultivation to be restored. His Excellency declares in a brief but significant descriptive paragraph that the whole aspect of the landscape has been changed. Instead of the pervading green common to all tropical prospects, it is now a uniform dirty brown color, only relieved by long white polesthe decapitated columns of palm and cocoanut trees. Nothing in the way of vegetation escaped the sweep of the wind and the subsequent scouring out by the deluge of water, and the island is practically a desert.
Before long, Oslo had receded from memory, becoming part of the history that oppresses rather than liberates the Middle East.
Now that was either some really bad editing of the programme for the trailer (I sincerely hope so) or some really bad physics. (I sincerely hope not.) I will explain where the phases of the Moon come from later although most readers know the reason and most of those who don't have understood it from the picture above. But at this moment, let me mention that the unexpected answer wasn't due to bad editing. He did say it and the January 28th, 2012 trailer above actually wasn't the first time when he did. See a discussion at Swanson's blog .
Australias antarctic runway melting | Donnybrook-Bridgetown Mail
Do these dumb awards matter? They bring in new traffic, and help bloggers tick credibility boxes with the media and with donors. So yes. If you bother (I know its a chore) it is a way to say thanks and to put your favourite sites further up the rankings lists. Think of it as a way to alert more people to the sites you feel deserve more attention. Its free advertising for them. You might have a bit more sway if you also tick the box Id like to be on the panel of voters who choose the finalists.
"Two top Federal Reserve officials argued for further aggressive action by the central bank, with one saying the economy needs "much more" help and the other pointing to Japan's painful lessons."
"It's been almost a year since we discovered one of the surprises in ObamaCare that Nancy Pelosi promised we'd find once we passed the bill a new federal law requiring all restaurant chains of 20 or more locations to put calorie counts on its menus. The mandate will creates a huge cost burden for restaurants not just in testing and printing costs for initial compliance, but every time the restaurant wants to add a new item to its repertoire. The extra cost will be worth it, say many, because it will change American eating habits once the benighted consumers realize the high amount of calories they consume when eating outside the home."Economics:
Did Congress Intend for EPA to Regulate CO2 through the Clean Air Act?
In February of 1972 earth-orbiting artificial satellites revealed the existence of a greatlyincreased area of the snow and ice cover of the north polar cap as compared to all previous years of space age observations. Some scientists believe that this may have presaged the onset of the dramatic climate anomalies of 1972 that brought far-reaching adversities to the worlds peoples. Moreover, there is mounting evidence that the bad climate of 1972 may be the forerunner of a long series of less favorable agricultural crop years that lie aheadfor most world societies. Thus widespread food shortages threaten just at the same time that world populations are growing to new highs. Indeed, less favorable climate may be the new global norm. The Earth may have entered a new little ice age
The so-called Lochner-era decisions of the Supreme Court relied on just that distinction to enforce vigorously the antitrust laws against cartels while striking down mandatory collective bargaining and minimum wage laws for their manifestly anticompetitive efforts. The rejection of that earlier line of jurisprudence has led to the massive expansion of government regulation over labor markets in the form of the National Labor Relations Act and the Fair Labor Standards Act, which have had exactly the effect of creating monopoly institutions and imposing entry barriers at the bottom end of the labor market, hurting the workers with the most limited skills.
I also need to emphasize that there is no "inevitable" contradiction between quantum mechanics and special relativity. In fact, quantum field theory discussed above is the simplest class of theories or framework (string theory is the only other framework with this property that we know) that perfectly respects the principles of special relativity and perfectly respects the postulates of quantum mechanics, too.
""During the 20th century, Russia seriously suffered from another ideology that came from Europe.... Not only Russia, but the whole world suffered,' he said, referring to Marxism."
Alarmists are reluctant to admit that the global surface temperature has not increased for 16 years, despite CO2 emissions rising far more than predicted. They wave this inconvenient truth away with the non-sequitur that this decade is the hottest since records began, so the world is still warming. If you climb a hill and reach a flat plateau you are higher than before - but the plateau is flat, not rising. When cornered, global warming alarmists assert that the current pause is simply the result of unspecified 'natural variations'. That implies that the pronounced warming over the previous 25 years may have been amplified by 'natural variations' in the other direction. In which case, the likely temperature rise for a given increase in CO2 may be less than previously estimated or required to produce the threatened doom.
Again, we presented the modeled energy imbalances to show the similarities in the curves, but our primary focus is the modeled TOA energy imbalances in absolute form.
This scientific account generates the imperatives that we, in this perilous world, are supposed to respond to if we want to be ethical, that is. But, as Garvey goes on to point out, scientific facts are a necessary part of reflection on climate change, but they are nothing near the whole of it. The moral philosopher is on hand to help us navigate the awkward journey, beset by doom, catastrophe, and other unimaginable horrors, toward a future of mere survival
At this point, it seems like it is going to be difficult to make the case for a very active hurricane season.
"The Federal Trade Commission is reviewing social networking company Twitter and its dealings with at least one company that makes software designed to interact with the service, according to media reports."
Eugene Trisko, United Mine Workers Association.
As a cross check, I looked at the temperature records at four nearby sites, including one at Heathrow itself. All sites were within 7 miles of Heathrow, and they all showed highs of between 95.0 and 95.2F (35.0 and 35.1C), suggesting that the Heathrow temperature was both biased high by its siting and affected by an artificial spike.
The model simulations of outgoing longwave radiation in absolute form are shown in Figure 8. They too show a massive spread in simulated values. The 10 watts/m^2 difference during our base period indicates there is little agreement among the models on how much infrared radiation is presently being emitted by Earth to space.
Last summer, when Israeli and Palestinian leaders agreed to the Obama administration's plan to renew face-to-face negotiations without preconditions, most opinion makers reacted with deep skepticism. They and most Middle East experts quickly lined up to dub the negotiations a frivolous confrontation between an Israeli leader who wants no agreement and a Palestinian leader too weak to get one.
The polar bear population may be near the historic high at 20 to 25,000 animals. In the 1950s and 60s, the population may have been as low as 5,000. Sea-ice extent is cyclical. Bears have withstood many cycles of sea-ice shrinking and growing, including previous interglacials. The polar bear population is in no danger.
The slowdown in rising temperatures over the past 15 years goes from being unexplained to overexplained.
The annual trend of the departures as shown below indicates a flat or slightly cooling trend, and not global warming at all. Yes they fluctuate but that does not mean the trend is warming.
But consider a much larger issue. Whatever our individual political orientations or climate views, let?s all recognize that it is a very big deal indeed when key professionals entrusted with important science and reporting responsibilities betray our trust. Think about government policy impacts involving many billions of dollars that are influenced by false premises, including regulatory standards and budgets attached to energy, environmental, science and education programs. Try to imagine but a few of the sweeping impacts of bad science upon our national economy and daily lives.
no one thinks that, in the short term, a world cooled by engineering would be preferable to one cooled by a reduction in carbon dioxide levels. And no one thinks that, as yet, we know enough to embark on any sort of large-scale engineering. Models of geoengineering's benefits need to be a lot more accurate than models of the harm that will be done in its absence. As Caldeira puts it, if you can be no more precise about the chances of harm under the status quo than to give them as 50%, that's still something to worry about. But if a proposed intervention has a 50-50 chance of doing good or harm, that's something to avoid.
12 of the hottest years in recorded history came in the last 15 years a period when there has been no trend global warming.
I love my country, said Mr. Provini, chief executive of 10-employee Natcore Technology in Red Bank, N.J. It makes me crazy that Ive got countries that want to do things with us, but not here. Is this the best proof he has that we are losing 'green jobs' due to a country that has also 'failed to take action?'
Washington, D.C., February 2, 2005President Bush's State of the Union address tonight will expound his vision of an "Ownership Society," in which all Americans become invested in their own future success and prosperity. White House observers are familiar with the President's emphasis on tax and Social Security reform as a means of empowering average Americans.
FULL PUBLIC consultation on fracking shale gas is needed so the planning process can move forward in an open and transparent way, according to the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health for Northern Ireland.
The collapse of the global warming hoax has warmists running scared, and some are trying to play the ???uncertainty card?? . Busted:
People who fret over headlines such as "World's oil problems are only going to get worse" must be growing downright panicky over recent news reporting on oil reserves.
Yes, it would be premature to draw a conclusion (that global warming is not happening) based on current data (that global temps are lower today than in 1998). That??s what we foolish mortals do. Government scientists, and the functionaries and bureaucrats they serve, however, know better.
As I explain today on MasterResource.Org, the free-market energy blog, Train ignores the obvious:
The global temperature-monitoring network consists of 517 weather stations. But each reading is only a tiny dot on the big world map, and it has to be extrapolated to the entire region with the help of supercomputers. Besides, there are still many blind spots, the largest being the Arctic, where there are only about 20 measuring stations to cover a vast area. Climatologists refer to the problem as the "Arctic hole."
It is no secret that the global warming scare has become a cash cow for many groups and individuals. Green groups use the issue to convince contributors to give larger donations and scientists of many disciplines try to make their work relevant to global warming in order to get a share of the federal government's yearly $2 billion global warming giveaway.
This is precisely the kind of government-as-usual our nation can no longer afford: politicians and bureaucrats deciding which energy technologies, industries and companies win and which ones lose on the basis of politics, rather than science, economics, technology or common sense.
Every thinking person knows that these charts are bogus, using questionable data and compressing axes like crazy to get the graph that they want. After doctoring the data and its presentation, these latter-day charlatans sell their message of fear to the gullible.
The former wrote in Spain's leading paper, El Mundo, slamming the research paper. However, he did not critique the paper itself he agreed with its conclusion. He was furious only that the study was publicized. By revealing the truth about Spain's increasingly mythologized "green jobs" and renewable energy experience, the revealed study threatened the prospects for Spain's companies to be bailed out by the U.S. repeating these mistakes.
3. Loss of European export markets for African flowers and vegetables. This is a big stick wielded by the European market that bans imports of biotech vegetables. However, the earnings from bigger and more stable biotech crops promise to dwarf the earnings from the few flowers and vegetable imports the EU allows under their present restrictions.
Can you see the issue? When projected back to pre-industrial CO2 levels, these future forecasts imply that we should have seen 2,3,4 or more degrees of warming over the last century, and even the flawed surface temperature records we are discussing with a number of upwards biases and questionable adjustments only shows about 0.6C.
This joint lecture covered a lot of ground, but the high point or peak was the revelation, graphically documented by Professor Legates, that all major climate models both overestimate and underestimate rainfall by as much as 60 inches per year over huge portions of the globe. Rainfall affects the mass balance, energy balance, and water balance of the climate system. Rain (or the absence thereof) is what most people mean by "weather." If the models can't get rainfall right, why should we trust them to get anything else right?
But the climate scientists at CRU and elsewhere have denied McIntyre's information requests for yearsPhil Jones even emailed that he'd destroy the data rather than let McIntyre have it.
TransCanada Corp. (TRP)s Keystone XL pipeline, which would carry oil from landlocked Alberta to the U.S. Gulf Coast, is a no-brainer that would create jobs and bolster the economy, former President George W. Bush said.
We did not advance our argument about asymmetric polarization lightly. We had worked closely with members of both parties and are not unaware of the issues and divisions inside the Democratic Party. But we had seen the GOP go from a problem-solving center-right party to a problem-solving very conservative party and then evolve into an obstructionist party intent on appeasing extreme forces inside and outside Congress.
And 'now so' strange that even someone of his party openly defend him, which is no longer 'news to know that this or that policy of Blair did not bring the desired results, or that some ministers have made strong voice without being obsequious Toppo against those who guide the Labour for more than ten years .The only news that really interested and that Blair has announced to leave lincarico before the next elections (2009 and 2010), but has not stated exactly when, leaving his colleague / partner / rival Gordon Brown to bake a little longer in the office of Chancellor of the Exchequer, the British super minister for the economy and the Treasury.
Arctic Sea Ice Extent Unchanged For Several Days
As I discussed in my February 11 column, passage of the international Kyoto Protocol plus proposed carbon cap-and-trade legislation in the U.S. promised a windfall profit bonanza for renewable energy subsidy seekers and their offset credit trading cronies. Al Gore's famous and feverish 1988 congressional hearings trumpeting global warming danger, along with his frightening An Inconvenient Truth science fiction movie set the stage for a media thriller.
UPDATE: I forgot to mention, heres an analysis by Willis Eschenbach of the dubious techniques used in the paper:
breath of physical processes relevant to even a narrow area of focus.
Corals Seeking Shelter from the Storm of Acidification & Bleaching (14 January 2015)
Julia A. Seymour, Networks do 92 climate change stories; fail to mention lull in warming in all 92 times, mrc.org/bias, June 25, 2013
Climate change? Not only is global warming in some sort of pause ( though hardly an excuse for inaction), there are some exciting advances being made in zero carbon energy sources such as solar and nuclear. (Also would have like to have a heard a calm analysis of the threats from emerging technologies. And not a single word about zombies, c'mon!) Then again, maybe the doom-and-gloomers will be proven correct. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
"We believe a right to resist an unlawful police entry into a home is against public policy and is incompatible with modern Fourth Amendment jurisprudence," David said. "We also find that allowing resistance unnecessarily escalates the level of violence and therefore the risk of injuries to all parties involved without preventing the arrest."
Vikings built homes, grew crops and raised cattle in Greenland between 950 and 1300, before they were frozen out by the Little Ice Age and encroaching pack ice and glaciers. Many warm periods followed, marked by open seas and minimal southward extent of Arctic sea ice, as noted in ships logs and discussed in scientific papers by Torgny Vinje and other experts. But warm periods of 1690-1710, 1750-1780 and 1918-1940, for instance, were often preceded and followed by colder temperatures, severe ice conditions and maximum southward ice packs, as during 1630-1660 and 1790-1830.
Claiming that my comments were an intemperate response to his results posted 4 days later might, in some circles, also be considered unfair.
One of the interesting aspects of the current temperature standstill is that it persists despite several El Ninos and La Ninas .Since 2006 the influence of these events has been more pronounced in satellite data; El Ninos in 2007 and 2009-10, La Ninas in 2008, 20102012. These events have increased the noise of the global temperature data in recent years.
I think NASA is using this huge area of super-heated water to bolster its deceptive ???warmest year on record?? pronouncements.
Differences in vulnerability and exposure arise from non-climatic factors and from multidimensional inequalities often produced by uneven development processes.