Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
But Al Gore passionately wants Congress to enact punitive cap-and-trade legislation, because he detests the hydrocarbon fuels that provide 85% of the energy that powers America and because he stands to make hundreds of millions of dollars via carbon trading deals and subsidized renewable energy technologies.
A review article appearing in Climate Research (April 9, 1998) claims that this number is too high. Dr. Sherwood Idso, of the U.S. Water Conservation Laboratory, discusses some of the research he has conducted which downgrades considerably the amount of warming that may occur from an increase of anthropogenic CO2 emissions.
The ANPR outlinesseveral administrative remedies to shield small entities from PSD requirements, all of doubtfullegality.For example, the ANPR proposes to redefine major source as a source with a potential to emit10,000, 25,000, or even 100,000TPY even though the statute says 250 TPY. Under Chevron v. NRDC , EPA has considerable discretionary authority in interpreting the CAAwhere the statute is silent or ambiguous with respect to the specific issue. But there is nothing ambiguous about 250 TPY.
There is no statistical difference between the rate of warming over the 27 years from 1917-1944 and the 25 years from 1975/1976 to 2000:
Many "climate scientists" built their entire careers on this funding; and so it is not surprising that they became so completely reliant on this conditional lifeline, that they became single-mindedly focused on achieving the ends for which they were commissionedand viciously attacking any intruders who may threaten that lifeline.
That's because every Tesla Model S or X, which range in price from $66,000 to $150,000, qualifies for a $7,500 federal tax credit. And many states offer additional incentives for buying electric vehicles.
By May 1, snowpack levels in many basins were in uncharted territory, higher than any recorded during the SNOTELera, since the late 1970s. The Tower site near Steamboat Springs, which on average receives more snow than any other SNOTELsite in the Colorado River basin, reached a record 202 of snow on the ground at the end of April, containing a record-tying 71 of water equivalent (Figure 1). Incredibly, as of May 23, the SWEat Tower has increased to 79. In Utah, all three river basins in the Wasatch region (Bear, Weber, and Provo) had record snowpacksfor May 1, all at over 200% of average for the date. On May 23, the Snowbird, Utah SNOTELwas recording 75 of SWE, which is about 180% of the average SWE for that site, which usually occurs in late April.
Lift the ban on crude oil exports. The Department of Commerce should change the definition of allowable exports, and the President should determine that exports are in the national interest. Ultimately, Congress should end the ban by reforming the relevant provisions of the Mineral Leasing Act of 1920, the Energy Policy and Conservation Act of 1975, and the Export Administration Act of 1979.
Now wake up from this nightmare. Last week, the Virginia-based Science and Public Policy Institute released a report showing, in chart form, the above results of Big Green's dream scenario. The SPPI study sports a cover graphic of a flaming dollar sign and a long title beginning "Analysis of US and State-by-State Carbon Dioxide Emissions," but readers are already just calling it "The Futility Report."
The only relevant estimate of cap-and-trade legislation is that it would cause your energy prices to necessarily skyrocket .
In a speech in late 2012, BP's general manager for global energy markets, Mark Finley, praised the rapid growth of renewable energyclaiming it had increased by 18% over last year, "the tenth year in a row for double-digit growth." However, he acknowledged "renewables make up such a small slice of the world's energy portfolio nowonly about 2%that even at such a blistering growth rate they are unlikely to significantly displace fossil fuels in the next two decades."
When I noticed from the hydrographic data that the Pacific Ocean heat content has been decreasing since 2003 or so, I was very surprised and puzzled, Lee told Eos . And when I found a large heat increase in the Indian Ocean, I was almost convinced that there was something wrong with the hydrographic data.
In the Pew Research Center's annual policy priorities survey, just 28% say dealing with global warming is a top priority for the President and Congress this year. In fact, the President's own research shows that his favorability rating "plummeted" with focus groups when he vowed to attack climate changeyet, promising to use executive action, he's pushed forward with plans he knows couldn't get through Congress.
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Using more realistic assumptions CRA believes that permit costs of $170 are plausible "even if there is a restricted form of international emissions trading." This could lead to GDP losses 10 times greater than Administration estimates, increased household energy bills of $850 per year, and a rise in gasoline prices of $.50 per gallon.
(the following is a version of a letter recently sent by Walter Starck to PNAS; republished with the authors consent)
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Obamas climate policy is practically worthless, says Dr. James Hansen
Ive used a handheld IR thermometer to directly measure its effect (the temperature of the surface of a thermopile in the device increases as you scan from pointing straight up in a clear sky to pointing at an angle voila! Downwelling sky radiation changing surface temperature!). But, no, thats not enough.
Update: Eli Rabett observed that another description of the adjustments, additional to the link that I provided above, is here and states that:
Trying to push China and India into going much beyond their current no-regrets policies will almost certainly prove futile, and it might well be counter-productive. On the one hand, it is possible that Chinese and Indian societies are destined to evolve in ways that will awaken internal demands for GHG controls. If they are, U.S. incentives could easily delay that progress. Sanctions could provoke resentment; bribes could induce a sense of entitlement and incentives for strategic behavior. On the other hand, if China and India are not destined to develop an indigenous demand for GHG controls, or if they will do so only very slowly, the U.S. can do even less to change the course of events. Climate is clearly an instance to which the president's call for a more humble U.S. foreign policy should be taken to heart.
President Obama's recently proposed policies will do little to combat climate change but they will do much for his political and economic objectives.
More worryingly for Australias sovereignty, governance and parliamentary democracy, your false claims raise questions as to your sincerity and allegiance. Your position on climate was established and stated in my previous correspondence as unfounded and contradicting science. Your repeated failure to present empirical scientific evidence and especially your repeated failure to specify any errors in my work when combined with your continued pushing of unscientific policy reveals more worrying concerns.
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If these actions were committed by a private corporation, EPA and Justice Department SWAT teams would come after its executives, with no intent, negligence or knowledge required. But Ms. McCarthy and her staff have not been held to any such Park Doctrine standards at least not yet.
Making dire predictions is what environmental groups do for a living, and its a competitive market, so they exaggerate. Virtually every environmental threat of the past few decades has been greatly exaggerated at some point. Pesticides were not causing a cancer epidemic, as Rachel Carson claimed in her 1962 book Silent Spring; acid rain was not devastating German forests, as the Green Party in that country said in the 1980s; the ozone hole was not making rabbits and salmon blind, as Al Gore warned in the 1990s. Yet taking precautionary action against pesticides, acid rain and ozone thinning proved manageable, so maybe not much harm was done.
Tobacco Settlement Seen as No Windfall for Colleges The Harvest From Tobacco Lawsuits: Payments Due to the States Over 25 Years:
The Federal Trade Commission takes on Intel over allegedly anticompetitive practices.
Hansen kind of got the ball rolling in 1988 with his publication of a climate model that predicted dire global warming over the next 20 years if mankind did not stop burning fossil fuels Hansen et al. 1988.
Tonight's amusement en route to the tips features some archival footage of what was almost certainly the most hotly-contested Presidential campaign in US history. The year was 1956, and Popeye, who was running under the banner of the Spinach Party, was neck and neck with Bluto, the head of the Blutocratic Party. Well into the election day vote count, while the respective candidates were still campaigning furiously, a scrolling news ticker on the side of a building brought a shocking and highly dramatic piece of news: Votes tied for Popeye and Bluto - no ballot yet from Miss Olive Oyl - only resident of Green Country - her vote will decide election. For amateur historians interested in campaign strategy and the politics of personality, it doesn't get any better than the riveting short film Popeye For President . The comments are open for your Reader Tips.
The issue of what to do with vacant Senate seats exploded on the national scene in January, when there were five vacancies in the Senatethe seats of Barack Obama (D-Ill.) and Joseph Biden (D-Del.), along with two Senators, Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) and Ken Salazar (D-Colo.), who resigned to take Cabinet posts in the incoming Obama administration, and the deadlocked seat in Minnesota eventually filled by Al Franken (D). With 95 Senators, the bar for cloture to block a filibuster fell from 60 to 57but because all five were Democrats, the ability to overcome the filibuster dropped dramatically.
We shouldn't, of course, forget the other side of the coin. There are always cranks and conspiracy theorists. No matter how well founded a scientific consensus, there's someone somewhereeasily accessible onlinethat thinks it's all hokum. Sometimes these folks turn out to be right. But often, they're just cranks whose counsel is best disregarded.
Even if Australia stopped emitting all carbon dioxide tomorrow, completely shut up shop and went back to the stone age, according to the official government climate models it would be cooler in 2050 by about 0.015 degrees. But their models exaggerate tenfold in fact our sacrifices would make the planet in 2050 a mere 0.0015 degrees cooler!
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"The anti-crisis measures that have been proposed and already partly implemented follow from the assumption that the crisis was a failure of markets and that the right way out is more regulation of markets," he said.
I then received the following somewhat cryptic response from May.
Less radical versions of the de-carbonization agenda (Waxman-Markey, Obamas Clean Energy Standard, Kyoto-Copenhagen) would be less destructive. Nonetheless, those policieswould place substantial burdens on our ailing economy , impeding progress to a better world.
It is hard to avoid the conclusion that Hillary has not the slightest idea what she is talking about, and is simply repeating the crap that has been fed to her.
Ann McElhinney has given a nice talk explaining that Avatar is a beautiful movie but it is complete rubbish created by a total idiot named James Cameron. ;-)
In the words of the authors, 'two distinct cold periods, following the 1809 'unidentified' volcanic eruption and the eruption of Tambora in 1815, the 1810s the coldest decade on record.' The warmest period, however, was not the last quarter century, when climate alarmists claim the earth experienced a warming that was unprecedented over the past two millennia. Rather, as Vinther et al . report, 'the warmest year in the extended Greenland temperature record 1941, while the 1930s and 1940s the warmest decades.' In fact, their newly-lengthened record reveals there has been no net warming of the region over the last 75 years! What it means
Global sea ice area is second highest on record for the date after 1988, and closing in the #1 spot. Antarctic ice is melting very slowly this summer, due to record cold Antarctic temperatures.
1) Arctic temperatures are only slightly higher now than they were in the late 1930s.
Ethanol will not bring us energy security, and it may well make us less secure because of the significant volatility in crop productivity from year to year.
A decision on the monument designation is expected in early 2016. Entering his last year in office, and determined to leave behind an environmental "legacy" to augment his unilateral, anti-fossil fuel action on climate change, Obama can be counted on to give NOAA the go ahead to designate the Atlantic Marine Monument.
This summer we have had confirmation that Arctic ice behaviour has everything to do with wind. During June, winds were circulating clockwise in an inwards spiral, which caused ice extent to diminish and ice concentration to remain high. Around July 1, the patterns reversed and we have seen counterclockwise winds pushing ice away from the pole. As a result, ice area/extent has scarcely changed and instead we see a gradual decline in average ice thickness. The video below shows June/July ice movement and thickness.
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It bears repeating, though I know I mention this every time, that this is precisely what President Obama said he would do. He is systematically destroying the coal industry, and the toll on American jobs is extremely high.
The working group, part of the UNFCCC process, is pulling together international positions to develop a consensus starting point for the Paris treaty negotiations, which will supposedly be unveiled at a meeting in Lima, Peru, in December. The Chinese paper, however, went to an earlier preparatory meeting slated to begin in Bonn on October 25.
With direct light, the cooling caused by clouds was weakest on the violet end of the spectrum and strongest at infrared. With scattered light, warming caused by clouds was also weakest at violet and the strongest at infrared. Overall, the least cooling and warming occurred at violet, and the most cooling and warming occurred at infrared.
The Sun reports in Smart meters 101: Five things you need to know :
The scientific method dictates that when the models aren?t working, it?s time to rework the models and assumptions, not double down by invoking unicorns and leprechauns to explain why up is really down. Instead, if we follow the logic of the scientists that ?cooling is really warning? to its conclusion, then the next ice age will be the definitive conclusion of decades of global warming.
3. Pollution Control and Prevention Projects. Modifications that result in a net overall reduction in air pollutants, including when an emitter switches to a cleaner-burning fuel, would be excluded from NSR, subject to certain conditions. Currently, only modifications done for the purpose of reducing emissions are granted such an exclusion. Caps on emissions under the National Ambient Air Quality Standards program and other programs would remain in place.
Regular readers of CO 2 Science will recognize the significance we attach to documenting the existence of the Medieval Warm Period, Little Ice Age and Little Medieval Warm Period throughout the world, the reality of which periods of thermal extremes is typically denied by the world's climate alarmists. Strangely enough, however, evidence for these distinctive warm and cold periods continues to be discovered almost weekly , and at a variety of places around the globe , supporting our thesis that the Current Warm Period is more a product of planet-wide natural forces (which have been operating with regularity throughout the Holocene and beyond), than of accelerating CO 2 -induced global warming. Reviewed 22 February 2006
Americans stand to benefit from the increased economic activity. Chart 5 depicts this growth in terms of personal income for a family of four. As Chart 5 illustrates, annual income rises by thousands of dollars per family as a result of improved energy policy. In particular, by 2035, the average American family would enjoy a total gain of more than $40,000 in personal income. In terms of aggregate GDP, these gains translate into almost $3.7 trillion of increased aggregate GDP through 2035.
Increasing food prices are, to some extent, caused by the fact that 40% of the American corn crop is being used for biofuels. This has jacked up the price of food grain all over the world. Your friends support biofuels, even though it has been shown that they do not result in any reduction in carbon dioxide emissions compared with fossil fuels.
On the campaign trail in May of last year, Barack Obama chastised Americans for failing to make sacrifices to address global warming. Upon entering the White House, however, the new president seems to have forgotten about leading by example."We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times ... and then just expect that other countries are going to say "OK.' ... That's not leadership," Obama said last May.According to The New York Times, Obama now has cranked up the White House thermostat, and staffers have jettisoned their suit coats."He's from Hawaii, O.K.?" Obama's senior advisor, David Axelrod, told the Times. "He likes it warm. You could grow orchids in there." James M. Taylor
The global temperature has been rising at a steady trend rate of 0.5C per century since the depths of the little ice age in the 1700s (when the Thames River would freeze over every winter; the last time it froze over was 1804). On top of the trend are oscillations that last about thirty years in each direction:
Information Technology: The Unsung Hero of Market-Based Environmental Policies
According to the GAO, stage 1 "lacks a quantitative goal for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, does not have a specific performance plan, and contains incomplete information on expected outcomes and links to the protocol's target." Therefore, "stage 1 may not provide a firm foundation for stages 2 and 3."
Environmentalism is a proselytizing religion. Skeptics are not merely people unconvinced by the evidence: They are treated as evil sinners. I probably would not write this article if I did not have tenure.
As youll recall, Earths energy imbalance is determined by subtracting the outgoing shortwave radiation (reflected sunlight) and the outgoing longwave radiation (emitted infrared radiation) from the incident shortwave radiation (incoming sunlight). In other words, for the climate models, were basically subtracting two computer-calculated values from a computer input.
John: A certified idiot Brian. And as of late, a highly respected and very well credentialed traveler on the gravy train as well.
mutations aren't random but often planned; natural selection is meant to be a process that selects the preferred mutations while the process of mutation itself didn't anticipate or plan its consequences
"Former Gov. Gerald L. Baliles says it's time for Virginia to act on reforms his blue-ribbon panel recommended for a state commission that was defrauded of $4 million in tobacco-settlement money meant to improve education in the state's struggling tobacco belt."
Democrats are willing to trim up to $5 billion from the $3.8 trillion 2011 federal budget (0.15%), while Republicans insist that $57 billion (1.5%) should be "slashed." As to reducing the deficit by increasing revenues, most of that discussion still centers on raising taxes on whatever "rich" people are still out there. On the energy front, things are truly disconnected from reality.
Your dad has lost his way, and you might be the only person in the world who can help him find it again. So talk to him.
The original paper is available here as an Adobe Acrobat PDF.
The prospect of the pipeline was rejected by the Sierra Club. Friends of the Earth announced that it would join with the Rainforest Action Network, the Sierra Club, and other radical Green groups to hold vigils around the nation Monday to protest its possible approval and construction.
Had he wished to be objective, he would have noted that, while there was indeed a modest increase in mean global temperature (of about half a degree Centigrade) during the last quarter of the 20th century, so far this century both the UK Met Office and the World Meteorological Office confirm that there has been no further global warming at all.
By Craig Idso, Cato, Aug 14, 2015
Figure 1. Projected global temperature rise from the IPCC?s business-as-usual (A1B) scenario (black curve) and the Kerry-Lieberman emissions scenario (red curve).
Curiously, while Meehl et al (2013) depends on El Nio and La Nia processes, they never use the terms El Nio or La Nia in the paper. They elected to present the effects of ENSO on the Pacific basin in an abstract form, the Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation.The problem with that:If the climate models show no skill at being able to simulate the processes of ENSO on short-term bases, theres no reason to believe they perform any better on decadal or multidecadal bases.
This Tellus trio of articles tells us that tropical cyclones could become less frequent in the future and the jury is still very much out on the question of whether more intense storms will develop in the decades to come. All told, there is still a lot of work to be done, and the debate is anything but over!
The 1990 IPCC report hadsatellite data going back to the early 1970s, which shows that1979 was right at the peak, andtwo million km higher than 1974- meaning that current ice extent is about the same as 1974
President Obamas business tax reform plan released today says:
Warmists were blessed for a second consecutive week when Profiteer Prophet Al Gore blogged . I know that posting on a blog isnt as dramatic as appearing on a mountain top with an armload of stones, but its greener, right? Anyways, back to the Goreacles post, which recommendeth the Grist:
The ethanol industry is booming. . . . There are now ninety-seven ethanol refineries in our country, and nine of those are expanding, and thirty-five more are under construction. . . . But what's really interesting, there are new plants springing up in unexpected areas, like the Central Valley of California, or Arizona, or, of course, in the sugar fields of Hawaii.
Obama's political shot at his predecessors vowing that "the days of science taking a backseat to ideology are over" has missed the mark by a mile. So has his commitment to create an unprecedented level of transparent openness in Government.
By David Whitehouse, GWPF, Aug 14, 2015
According to McKintyre, there was no response, but within about an hour, GISS pulled down the erroneous data, citing a mishap and pointing the finger of blame upstream to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminstration (NOAA). NOAAs Deputy Director of Communications, Scott Smullens, tells DailyTech that NOAA is responsible only for temperature readings in the US, not those in other nations.The error not only affected October data, but due to the complex algorithm GISS uses to convert actual temperature readings into their output results, altered the previously published values for several other months as well. The values for August 2008, for instance, changed by 0.11C and the global anomaly as far back as 2005 increased by a hundredth of a degree.
CAFE legislation, passed by Congress in 1975, has contributed to about half of the thousand pound decrease in the average weight of cars over the last twenty years, decreasing crashworthiness.
Coaxing Nature to Reveal 1,000 Years of Earth's Climate