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Another drawback is range.Except forthe Tesla Model S, with an EPA-estimated range of 265 miles, most battery-electric vehicles (BEVs) have EPA-estimated ranges of 62 to 99.8 miles ??? although motorists may go farther under actual driving conditions, Edmunds.Com reports. These range limitations diminish the utility and, thus,value ofBEVs for many consumers, and may induce ???range anxiety?? ??? fear of being stranded between where you are and where you have to go. The Tesla Model S has an impressive range but, with a manufacturer??s recommended sale price of $69,900 ,most households cannot affordto buy oneevenwith generous federal and state tax rebates.
Although elevated CO 2 increased the total number of bacteria and respiring bacteria in the bulk soil beneath white clover by 40 and 70%, respectively, it had no significant impact on bulk-soil bacterial numbers beneath perennial ryegrass. When the total bacterial numbers in rhizosphere soil were expressed on a per unit land area basis, however, it was found that elevated CO 2 increased the total number of bacteria and respiring bacteria beneath white clover by about 100 and 250%, respectively, while it increased the total number of bacteria and respiring bacteria beneath perennial ryegrass by approximately 85 and 125%, respectively. What it means
To reduce the interpretation of the causality of all kinds of climate changes and of global warming to one variable, CO2, or to a small proportion of one variable ? human-induced CO2 ? is impossible to accept. Elementary rationality and my decades-long experience with econometric modeling and statistical testing of scientific hypotheses tell me that it is impossible to make strong conclusions based on mere correlation of two (or more) time series. In addition to this, it is relevant that in this case such a simple correlation does not exist. The rise of global temperature started approximately 150 years ago but man-made CO2 emissions did not start to grow visibly before the 1940s. Temperature changes also repeatedly moved in the opposite direction than the CO2emissions trend suggests.
Following the humiliation of the EU and its supporters (including Australia) at Copenhagen last December, the whole Anthropogenic Global Warming structure is now falling down, as one key structural element collapses after another. Even the Royal Society of London, for years a rock-solid player in this fraud, has announced the establishment of a committee to inquire into the Society?s role and conduct in this debate.
The former vice president, who has devoted his post-electoral career to climate change fanaticism, this week gave the former Massachusetts governor kudos on the issue closest to Gore's heart.
Well, I wasn??t going to mention this paper, but it seems to be getting some play in the blogosphere. Our friend Nicola Scafetta is back again, this time with a paper called ???Solar and planetary oscillation control on climate change: hind-cast, forecast and a comparison with the CMIP5 GCMs?? . He??s posted it up over at Tallbloke??s Talkshop. Since I??m banned over at Tallbloke??s, I thought I??d discuss it here. The paper itself is here , take your Dramamine before jumping on board. Dr. Scafetta has posted here on WUWT several times before, each time with his latest, greatest, new improved model. Here??s how well Scafetta??s even more latester, greatester new model hindcasts, as well as what it predicts, compared with HadCRUT4:
That Heartland is losing the battle is discussed by several recent articles in the Guardian:
The world stopped getting warmer almost 16 years ago, according to new data released last week.
As these figures demonstrate, lower tropospheric temperatures (the part of the atmosphere where weather is generated) have reverted to the levels of 11 years ago after a period of rapid cooling over the last year and a half. In addition to RSS, the other three measures of world temperatures reveal the same cooling pattern: http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/hadcrut3vgl/from:1997/to:2009/offset:-0.146/plot/gistemp/from:1997/to:2009/offset:-0.238/plot/uah/from:1997/to:2009/plot/rss/from:1997/to:2009 . As Dr. Roger Pielke Sr. has previously discussed, the oceans (the more important indicator of global temperature change) have not been warming in recent years and have actually cooled slightly. The ???warming?? conditions explict in the EDF claim and implicit in the NOAA release do not exist.
But, it is often unreported that we??ve had sea level rise all through American history. Of all the talk about sea level rise, it is interesting to point out that at least in Boston, man has easily outraced the sea. The worry about sea level is real, but the ability of man to adapt is clearly illustrated in the comparative maps. See here: The rubbish is coming! One if by land, two if bysea
It involved the crews of Mercury and Apollo and the space shuttle's 135 missions and the engineers of a thousand companies who made those things fly and gave us personal computers, cellphones and GPS along the way.
Similarly, relatively large warming and cooling radiative forcings (e.g., well-mixed greenhouse gases and the indirect effect of aerosols) could be in near balance at present, suggesting that sudden climate changes could occur if one of these forcings becomes dominant. On the other hand, a loss of space to a large portion of the increased radiative fluxes, as the atmosphere adjusts, such as through a change in cloud cover (e.g., Lindzen et al. 2001), would suggest that the climate system is relatively more resilient to continued anthropogenic heating effects than conventionally assumed.
Seven power plants in Pennsylvania are under attack by the Sierra Club and EarthJustice which have filed a federal lawsuit. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has exposed this common practice by environmental groups to ?sue and settle.?
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Foxnews argues that astronomers have been deaf so far but with LIGO and LISA, they may detect the songs sung by cosmic superstrings: :-) Cosmic superstrings might 'sing' in gravity waves The expected music is 10-20 octaves below the usual pop-music hits. Fair and balanced. We report, you decide. :-) There are interesting people mentioned in the article but let me still recommend this 2004 review by Polchinski: Introduction to cosmic F- and D-strings Unlike our friends in Foxnews, Joe Polchinski doesn't confuse cosmic superstrings with more general cosmic strings - thin tubes filled with the primordial vacuum. ;-)
The Iceberg Lake, Alaska series has profound inhomogeneities, especially in its 20th century portion. A major inhomogeneity is that varve thickness is related to distance to the inlet, an observation first made in comments at Climate Audit in comments on Loso 2006. Loso 2009 conceded this point (without mentioning Climate AUdit though it did acknowledge WIllis Eschenbach who corresponded with Loso on a different point) but its remedy (taking logarithms) was hopelessly inadequate to the problem. Dietrich and Loso 2012 acknowledges that inhomogeneities impact their reconstruction, but did not amend or withdraw the earlier series. Interestingly, Dietrich and Loso report glacier advance in Alaska commencing around 1250AD, almost exactly contemporaneous with the well-dated Hvitarvatn advance. The Iceberg Lake series, as used, has a late 20th century uptick coinciding with a major inhomogeneity, the effect of which cannot be separated under any plausible technique known to me.
An extremely cold period commonly known in Kuwait as Izairig will continue until the end of the month, says astronomer Adel Al-Saadoun.
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In answer to this question, the Canadian and French scientists note that the studies of McKenney et al. (2011) and Terrier et al. (2013) suggest that "future climate warming will lead to increases in the proportion of hardwood forests in both southern and northern boreal landscapes." And they say that this change in landscapes likely will have other benefits as well, such as "the higher albedo and summer evapotranspiration from deciduous trees, which would cool and counteract regional warming (Rogers et al., 2013), and the increase in the resilience of forests to climatic changes (Drobyshev et al., 2013)."
Whatever it does produce is constantly changing, moment-to-moment; no one can predict what it will produce at any future time. Winds performance history also shows that wind plants generally produce most at the times of least demandand least at the times of peak demand.
Here?s a break down of just a handful of the states affected by these regulations:
The CFACT workshop on "How to Think and Talk about Climate and Energy Issues" was held as part of the 41st annual national meeting of the American Legislative Exchange Council, or ALEC an outstanding organization that helps state legislators promote limited government, free markets, and federalism.
These anti-hydrocarbon policies also mean the U.S. Treasury will be deprived of hundreds of billions of dollars in lease bonuses, royalties, taxes and other revenues that it would realize from the development of our nation's vast oil, natural gas and coal deposits. Instead, the United States will be forced to pay billions more for imported oil, often from unethical, environmentally reckless countries.
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So, both current temperatures and 10-Year averages are actually slightly lower than 2002-11. With just three years to go, it seems unlikely that the 2007-16 will alter this position drastically.
NRO's Manzi Mischaracterizes Global Warming Debate
Now, thanks to Kennedy, Massachusetts can be a model for the rest of the states.
41 Javier Solana, "Mars and Venus Reconciled: A New Era for Transatlantic Relations," Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University (April 7, 2003).
Agreement signed at San Jose September 13, 2007; entered into force September 13, 2007. And agreement amending the agreement signed at San Jose September 25 and 26, 2007; entered into force September 26, 2007.
"The idea that CO2 is the tail that wags the dog is no longer scientifically tenable," said Marc Morano of ClimateDepot.com, a website devoted to countering the prevailing acceptance of man-made global warming.
In the end expect hundreds of thousands of euros more to be spent on proper ventilation and climate control, and expect much more than the ballyhooed 15 kwh/m/year to be consumed. Or, in the worst case, expect the place to be taken over by the weeds soon.
Some of the areas where organisms would need to relocate the fastest are important biodiversity hot spots, such as the coral triangle region in southeastern Asia, says lead author Mike Burrows of the Scottish Association of Marine Science.
Also we have applied a completely artificial adjustment to the data after 1960, so they look closer to observed temperatures than the tree-ring data actually were Dr. Tim Osborn, Climatic Research Unit, disclosed Climategate e-mail, Dec. 20, 2006
(gales, storms, hurricanes, tornadoes etc) there seems to be little robust
The Overstatement Of Certainty In The Levitus Et Al 2012 Paper
As a token gesture towards those of us who dislike State-funded propaganda that is also wasteful and prodigiously carbon-emitting, in one of Copenhagen?s squares a giant Christmas tree covered in white lights (colored Christmas decorations are regarded as vulgar in Denmark) is surrounded by a couple of dozen fixed bicycles attached to generators, so that the eco-Fascists can feel good about the environment as they pedal like mad to keep the Christmas-tree lights on.
China Demand $100 Billion While They Continue To Increase Emissions
This time power will be met by a commercial generation market where the government, until around 2020, will set the required amount and price for low-carbon power according to technology and leave delivery to the market. (The CEGB in addition owned the power plants, in a fully nationalised model).
Then we will watch our nation's economy expand with more jobs and more revenue.
Freely distributed allowances to firms tend to be very regressive. Higher-income households may actually gain at the expense of lower-income households under this policy. This is because the asset value of the allowances flows to households in the form of increased stock values or capital gains, which are concentrated in higher-income households.
On Tuesday November 17th, a little sanity came to the Parliament of Canada. The Canadian Senate killed the NDP sponsored Bill C-311, "The Climate Change Accountability Act."
A paper published today in the Journal of Geophysical Research finds that current global climate models make "very large" errors in determining solar radiation at the surface of the Earth "due to ignoring the effects of clouds." According to the authors, these very large errors can exceed 800 Watts per meter squared, which by comparison is about 216 times more than the alleged effect of doubling CO2 concentrations .
Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman, who supports the pipeline if it avoids the Sand Hills, signed legislation last month allowing his state to restart a review of the project. So its probably only a matter of time before the ball lands squarely in the federal governments court with a final decision coming after November.
The Obama vision has been an unmitigated disaster. Countless failures, bankruptcies and layoffs are matched by a need for perpetual subsidies taken from hard-working, productive people and businesses, and given by unaccountable bureaucrats to failed technologies and companies, run by crony-corporatists who return the favor by contributing substantial portions of our compulsory taxpayer largesse to the reelection campaigns of cooperative politicians.
In her sworn testimony, Dr. Curry stated, The information cascade of climate change as apocalypse is impeding our ability to think rationally about how we should respond to climate change.
Professor Stephan Lewandowsky may not understand much about the climate, but he is a professor of psychology so satire, humor, and hoaxes ought to be right up his alley, right? Hes realized he fell for the brilliant Alene Composta (a master satirist) replying to her and even sending her fake request for advice to fellow blogger John Cook ( who fell for it too ).
Some will argue that, with 50,000 troops present in three continents today, NATO is in essence already global. Others will counter that the story of this halfhearted, haphazard globalization reads at times like a tale told by an idiot, full of rhetorical fog and bureaucratic friction, and signifying nothing more than "flight forward" or "muddling through." In fact, in the post-Cold War period, NATO's desire to have its cake (collective defense) and eat it too (collective security) has created a certain conceptual confusion.2
There have only been three recorded hurricanes during May in the Atlantic Basin. They occurred in 1908, 1951 and 1970, including this hurricane which struck the US during the last week of May, 1908
According to the authors, their research revealed "a general long-term cooling trend," but that "superimposed on this overall trend" were "partly higher temperatures and salinities from 180 to 560 AD and 750-1160 AD," which they say "may be ascribed to the Roman and Medieval Warm Periods , respectively," the latter of which was followed by the Little Ice Age (LIA) and what they describe as the "post-LIA recovery and, possibly, (late) 20th century anthropogenic warming."
Let me emphasize again: The catastrophe results not from greenhouse gas theory, but from the theory of extreme climactic positive feedback. In a large sense, all the debate in the media is about the wrong thing! When was the last time you saw the words "positive feedback" in a media article about climate?
To put it another way, the reason that polar bears in some areas easily survive an onshore fast of 4 months or more over the late summer/early fall is that they would get very little to eat (if anything) even if they stayed out on the ice. It??s the fat put on in spring/early summer (from gorging on baby seals) that carries them over the summer, no matter where they spend it.
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and rainfall variability are also presented. Regions of Africa where seasonal
Montral, Quebec, December 9, 2005Former U.S. President Bill Clinton will address the United Nations climate conference in Montral this afternoon, and is expected to urge the United States to change course and adopt the energy-use restrictions of the Kyoto Protocol. Clinton's current enthusiasm for the treaty is in sharp contrast to his position while President and the conditions he demanded be met prior to U.S. approval.
3) Hydro is obviously pretty much fixed, and the general impression is that there is little scope for much more onshore wind, so I have assumed an increase in capacity from the current 8GW to 10GW.
Over the past decade, GISS has continued to show an increase in global temperatures, while HadCRUT has decreased. They have been diverging at a rate of about 1C per century, which is pretty dramatic considering that they report 0.01C precision.
As tallied up at JunkScience.com courtesy of the global warmers' own data, Kyoto is estimated to have cost about $150 billion so far, while only hypothetically reducing the average global temperature by 0.0015 degrees Centigrade.
Just look at some of the other postings on this site. Bossy, hand-wringing, whingeing demands that the economies of the West should be selectively shut down, because otherwise the polar ice will melt, the sea will rise, coral islands will drown, tempests will roar, plagues, famines, droughts and floods will stalk the Earth, and there will be Horsemen of the Apocalypse all over the place.
While Chinas program has been primarily driven by a desire to build globally competitive electric vehicles, air pollution, especially in the cities, has become a national imperative. Yet, if coal-fired power is used to meet electric vehicle electricity demand, the absence of tail pipe emissions will likely be entirely offset by incremental power generation.
There is very little exchange of air between the northern and southern hemispheres, and basic climate science shows that most sulfates from China will rain out before they get across the thermal equator. In fact, there is a great deal of literature out there published by luminaries like the Department of Energy?s Ben Santer and NASA?s James Hansen claiming relative cooling of the northern hemisphere from sulfates, compared to the southern.
This dull looking open access paper hides gems.
As far as his professed fear and trembling over CO2 being higher than any time in recorded history, first, its not true. There were times in the 19th century that atmospheric CO2 was measured at over 400 ppm. And, second, recorded history is a cute way to avoid looking at all the other ways that atmospheric CO2 concentrations are measured for times before recorded history. Again, he either lacks perspective or is deliberately failing to provide it. In the geological time frame, the current amount of atmospheric CO2 is near an all time low, vying with the Carboniferous and Permian Periods for the lowest atmospheric CO2 in over 500 million years. Its decline over the past 150 million years has been almost linear and completely unconnected with any sort of human activity, as was its abrupt increase at the end of the Permian period from about where it is now, just barely enough to sustain life, to over 2500 ppm.
Its political might has also made 1199 into a talent farm for the Democratic Party's liberal wing. Take the impressive career of Jennifer Cunningham, a well-connected advisor in Democratic circles, once described by the New York Post as "the most powerful woman in Albany." She joined 1199 after earning her spurs in the political-affairs office of Victor Gotbaum's AFSCME District Council 37, the largest pure government union in New York City.
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But the memo reveals that when the film was shown to a group of Cuban doctors, some became so " disturbed at the blatant misrepresentation of healthcare in Cuba that they left the room".
Now consider the Apocalypse Delayed? posting of March 28th. Referring to an Economist article, it says that a number of empirical studies show that climate sensitivity is much lower than the climate models assume. Therefore, moving into the net cost range seems much less likely.
Acronym translation: OMB is the Office of Management and Budget, DPC is the Domestic Policy Council, NEC is the National Economic Council and OLA is the Office of Legal Affairs.
And now the Vatican is adopting the same secretive, agenda-driven, inquisition tactics.
To paraphrase Mario Cuomo's dictum about political campaigns, we debate foreign policy in poetry and
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Climate researchers have discovered that NASA researchers improperly manipulated data in order to claim 2005 as "the warmest year on record."
Climate scientists say it will take at least ten years of continuing observation and theoretical studies to decide whether increasing CO2 levels are likely to cause significant global warming. T. P. Barnett, co-reviewer of the 1995 IPCC report, states, "The next 10 years will tell; we're going to have to wait that long to really see."37 K. Hasselmann of Germany's Max Planck Institute for Meteorology concurs, "It will take another decade or so to work up out of the noise." 38
The Daily Show. Jon Stewart, who hosts the popular Daily Show, recently introduced his viewers to the idea of geoengineering as a solution to climate change, using AEI's own Sam Thernstrom as an expert. In typical Daily Show hyperbole, the producers titled the segment "Our Dead Planet."
So far the U.S. has been nearly alone in its skepticism of global warming claims and the need to spend billions of dollars to prevent it. The Canadians, however, are becoming more and more squeamish about the Kyoto Protocol and its implications.
But don't get me wrong: I was convinced by the reigning consensus on global warming a long time ago, have accepted that human use of fossil fuels has caused it and am very glad so many European politicians take the scientists' words seriously. The question now is whether these same Europeans will start taking the solutions seriously. If so, they must begin by abandoning the bankrupt Kyoto treaty on climate change and encouraging the United States to do so, too.
It was eight years ago this month that the United Nations said we had eight years to do something about global warming. If not, the planet would be in trouble . Well, here we are, and no climate disaster has befallen Earth. And none is on the horizon.
environmental pressure groups, renewable energy companies and some public officials who keep each other well supplied with lavish funds, scare stories and green tape.
The delegates, if they could, would impose carbon taxes nation-by-nation and globally, but Chip Knappenberger, a leading skeptic, writing in MasterSource.org, asked How much global warming will result from U.S. emissions over the course of this century and how much of that could be prevented by a carbon tax? These two questions have the same simple answervirtually none. One or two tenths of a degree a century with or without a carbon tax makes the whole climate debate a peculiar exercise.