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December 16, 2015 | Commentary on Energy and Environment, Sovereignty
Hethen set about rebuilding it and then filling it with the most amazing, idiosyncratic, eclectic collection of objects that one could ever imagine tripled. For example, we walked into one room to find an antique tripod-mounted (and doubtless inactivated) Vickers machine gun mixed in with a variety of medieval weapons. Bizarre. Inside and outside the castle you can find well everything and anything. For example, there are two cannons in the courtyard that Sir Humphry saidwere stamped with the markings of Nelsons favourite flagship, the Foudroyant, captured from the French in the 18th century with the name retained to add gall to subsequent attack.
Dear Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon, We, the People of the Earth, request You to act judiciously and expeditiously to protect the Earth from anthropogenic climate change. Respectfully, People of the Earth.
Paleo-Climate Scientist Examines Recent Peer-Research, Determines All N. Hemisphere Regions Had Large Medieval Warming
Gia Dvali argues that if you have "N" stable particle species that are conserved because of "N" $Z 2$ symmetries or something similar, they can't be heavier than
It's the ocean : He says that "oceans have been warming" which completely misses the point of the sentence "it's the ocean". The sentence "it's the ocean" clearly meant that the internal dynamics of the oceans, similar to the turbulent dynamics that he believes to be responsible for climate change on Jupiter in point 48, is responsible for the changes of the Earth. He has given us no counter-argument against this point whatsoever.
Spencer tells OneNewsNow, however, that you can't have it both ways.
it's gotten a little colder). Theories that do not retrospectively explain
As country after country abandons, curtails or reneges on once-generous support for renewable energy, Europe is beginning to realise that its green energy strategy is dying on the vine. Green dreams are giving way to hard economic realities.
Significantly, ?the President offers no suitable replacement for the lost generating capacity beyond pointing toward wind and solar which is not up to the task.? When Obama took office, coal-fired plants provided 50% of U.S. electricity. It is now down to 40% and headed lower if Obama has his way.
July 29 - August 7, Aspen, CO. Meeting at the Aspen Global Change Institute to assess national impacts of climate change.
So alarmists began talking about climate change, blaming extreme weather events on human emissions and manipulating temperature data . They say terrible things are happening at unprecedented levels, when they are not.
Global warming and climate change are the biggest scam of all. This continues despite disclosures about the falsity of the science, corruption of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the manipulations of the people at the Climatic Research Unit (CRU). Now we have another fiasco presented as an attempt to show the official science has legitimacy.
This new book is the finest history of the Great Depression ever written. Hold onthis is supposed to be a review, not a dust-jacket blurb; but it can't be helped. Although there are several fine revisionist works about the Great Depression and the New Deal, Shlaes's achievement stands out for the devastating effect of its understated prose and for its wide sweep of characters and themes. It deserves to become the preeminent revisionist history for general readers.
The scientific work on which the last IPCC report rests is now more than three years old, and in the intervening period several significant research reports have appeared that cast serious doubt on its conclusions.
One of the energy firms hoping to exploit the UKs resources of shale gas says it may be sitting on significantly more gas than previously thought.
A carbon tax, whether imposed by the United States unilaterally or by the industrialized world, would have virtually no effect on temperatures over the course of this century.
As U.S. NATO Ambassador Victoria Nuland argued, "if the divisive debate over Iraq taught us one thing, it is that NATO must be the place where we talk about all the issues affecting our future the Middle East, Iraq, North Korea, China, Iran, just to name a few." The North Atlantic Council has recently broadened its range of consultations to include global issues ranging from energy security to transnational terrorism. But increased consultation, in and of itself, will not mechanically lead to better conceptualization. Enhancing the strategic literacy of NATO's stakeholders should be the logical prerequisite to a debate about the future NATO strategic concept.
Two weeks ago, McKitten blamed the lack of storms on global warming. Now he blames thesuperstormonglobalwarming.
The purchases will help accommodate growing travel demand by congressional officials. The planes augment a fleet of about two dozen passenger jets maintained by the Air Force for lawmakers, administration officials and military chiefs to fly on government trips in the U.S. and abroad.
One wonders how familiar the 240 authors of the 2013 draft National Assessment are with Karl Popper's famous essay on the nature of science and its distinction from "pseudoscience." The essential difference is that science only explains some things and that its hypotheses forbid others, while a theory that is not refutable by any conceivable event i.e., one that is universally and comprehensively explanatory is pseudoscience. For Popper, science is characterized by risky predictions (such as gravitational lensing of light in relativity), while pseudoscience does not lend itself to such testing. His favorite examples of pseudoscience were Marxism and Freudian psychology.
On Saturday (September 3, 2016), Obama deposited with the United Nations the U.S. "instrument of acceptance" of the Paris Agreement. All 25 other nations that have formally decided to become parties to the agreement have deposited "instruments of ratification." They fear not the R word (ratification) because they fear not the T word (treaty).
After conducting their several analyses, Lauer and Hamilton concluded that "the simulated cloud climate feedbacks activated in global warming projections differ enormously among state-of-the-art models," informing us that "this large degree of disagreement has been a constant feature documented for successive generations of GCMs from the time of the first Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change assessment through the CMIP3 generation models used in the fourth IPCC assessment." And they add that "even the model-simulated cloud climatologies for present-day conditions are known to depart significantly from observations and, once again, the variation among models is quite remarkable (e.g., Weare, 2004; Zhang et al ., 2005; Waliser et al ., 2007, 2009; Lauer et al ., 2010; Chen et al ., 2011)."
As a conference participant, I would like to comment about two of the guest speakers. One of them, James Delingpole, was the only non-scientist in the group of seventy three. He is an author, broadcaster, and blogger who helped break the Climategate story in the United Kingdom. Having earned an English degree from Oxford University, Delingpole "felt like a shepherd boy who had been transported to Mt. Olympus."
PHILIP: There are none so blind as those who wont listen.
"Excluding Commercial Fishing Activity from Certain Segments of the Ocean"
With almost 50% of the bay still covered in ice , Hudson Bay has the third highest coverage this week since 1992 (after 2009 and 2004); Davis Strait has the highest coverage since 1992; and Foxe Basin and Baffin Bay have the highest coverage since 1998.
5. More Objective Definition of the RMR&R; Exclusion. EPA proposes to set cost-based thresholds below which projects would automatically qualify for the RMR&R; exclusion. The thresholds would be set on an industry-by-industry basis and would exclude costs incurred for installing and maintaining pollution control technology. EPA would also attempt to codify activities that qualify for the RMR&R; exclusion, possibly relying on industry groups for advice on what activities are common practice. The agency proposes to consider energy efficiency improvements "routine" and eligible for the RMR&R; exclusion.
Many empirical relationships have been reported between GCR or cosmogenic isotope archives and some aspects of the climate system (e.g., Bond et al., 2001; Dengel et al., 2009; Ram and Stolz, 1999). The forcing from changes in total solar irradiance alone does not seem to account for these observations, implying the existence of an amplifying mechanism such as the hypothesized GCR-cloud link.
How can it be that PM2.5 particulates are dangerous or lethal for Americans in general, every time they step outside but harmless to human guinea pigs who were intentionally administered pollution dozens of times worse than what they would encounter outdoors? How can it be, as EPA-funded researchers now assert, that "acute, transient responses seen in clinical studies cannot necessarily be used to predict health effects of chronic or repeated exposure" when that is precisely what EPA claims they can and do show?
Hundreds of people registered to vote out of their law offices, medical offices, accounting offices, and Government of Canada offices - in some cases these may be genuine errors, but in other cases, entire families are registered to vote out of high rise office space
The fallacious recommendation that emanates from the incomplete data is that the U.S. has no chance to remain a viable society and economy if we continue to rely on all this foreign (onshore, Alaska, ethanol, Saudi Arabia, Russia, what??s the difference?) and offshore supply. ???Therefore, we have no alternativebut to turn to . . . wind, solar, biomass??? The agenda pushers never want to let a good crisis go to waste. But very quietly, mostly out of sight of the energy policy crowd in Washington, we have seen the emergence of major new sources of domestic energy production ??? natural gas from coalbeds and shale formations. So great has been the rise in domestic gas production that it has weakened gas prices worldwide, benefitting users in homes and industry.
His original video found here while I links to the Pierre Gosselin blog from Heartland presentation.
But the reality is that having personally committed to this policy, Clintons massive spending commitment and illegal use of presidential power will have outraged all those Americans who might not have cared much about the climate and might have just turned a deaf ear to sceptics thinking to themselves we should help the environment. Now, these people can see the real cost, they can see that the Democrats are hell bent on this political power grab . Clinton and Obama will just galvanised the Republicans and many of their own (previous) supporters to fight against them. Complete disaster politically!
Fair enough! To test how the red king crabs respond to various water temperatures, Stoner et al. reared red king crabs for 60 days with water temperatures ranging from 1.5C to 12C. Some of the crabs were cultured in populations while others were grown in isolated cells. The key figure below tells much of the story the red king crabs grow best in warm water the warmer the better from their perspective! Not only are the growth rates in terms of size impressive at high temperatures, but the growth rates in terms of weight are just as impressive. Weights for red king crabs at 12C averaged nearly seven times more than the weights for the crabs reared at 1.5C.
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This would allow public involvement through judicial review but hold opponents accountable. This might lead to a more responsible form of environmentalism.
It's worth noting that, when Obama took office, 50% of America's electrical energy was supplied by coal-fired plants and, just 6 years later, that has been reduced by 10%. What kind of President would deliberately reduce American's access to affordable power?
When the Sun is approximately on the opposite side from the Earth than the Moon and if we can see the Moon, we can see "our side" of the Moon (it's night right now because the Sun is beneath the horizon) which is the same side that is illuminated by the Sun, too. We see the full moon; the whole Moon is a bright disk. As the Moon keeps on orbiting around the Earth (and the Earth plus Moon revolve around the Sun, but the latter motion is slower than the lunar motion), the lunar phases alternate. So we may also see something in between a "C" and a new moon, i.e. a thin banana, and so on.
Unfortunately for the EPA, a major pillar of support of the Endangerment Findingthat "most" of the "observed warming" since the mid-20th century is from greenhouse gas emissions from human activitieshas been shown by recent scientific research in major peer-reviewed scientific journals to be largely in doubt.
PUPAGANDA: Hunting, not global warming, affected polar bear population Dr. Mitch Taylor, a Canadian polar bear expert who tracks polar bear populations, says bear populations will show increases, not decreases, in the 2009 census now underway.
Theres nothing like a devastating Hurricane Sandy and a follow-up noreaster to get people thinking that climate is changing, but the simple unadorned fact is that the Earth has been in a cooling cycle since 1998. Its getting colder all over the world.
For "well-paying," read "union jobs." With over 14 million Americans unemployed, and an unemployment rate of 9.7%, organized labor, one of Mr. Obama's most important constituencies, is getting restive. Furthermore, Congress has yet to pass the Employee Free Choice Act, top on unions' wish list. The election of Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown, a Republican, to the seat of former Democratic Senator Edward Kennedy has made it even less likely that the union-favored bill will make it into law.
One of the successes of US law vs. European is that we have generally maintained the inventive to work -- in other words, we have been able to relieve economic hardship while still making unemployment uncomfortable enough to provide incentives to find work.
In the left panel, Ive showed the implied temperatures (pressures) using the half-time Non-Logo measurements. In the right panel, Ive shown the implied temperatures (pressures) after applying the hypothesized deflation (inflation) shown for each ellipse in the left panel. In each case, Ive guessed the amount of deflation/inflation to apply. Algorithms for many inverse problems begin with a guess, so this is not quite as ad hoc as it looks.
to prevent reciprocal cooperation (or "pal review"): I'll be nice
Neither of these interventions seems to have stopped the flood of speculation on whether adherence to the protocol is wise. The influential UNICE business group said in a letter to the presidency that member state environment ministers should ask the European Commission to launch a review of climate change policies for 2008-2012.
The Day After Tomorrow is being released by Twentieth Century Fox, a division of the News Corporation -- yes, that News Corporation, headed by Rupert Murdoch, the conservative Australian-American media magnate who serves as poster boy for scolds who warn about the dangers of the Federal Communications Commission liberalizing media ownership rules.
One of the first things I did was to install other browsers. Generally I use Firefox or Opera. I avoid Chrome due to the tendency for Google to suck up all possible information about you and what you do, and sell it to folks or use it against your privacy. Internet Explorer gets used when some web site writes bad code that depends on I.E.isms to work. Other than that, I avoid it. At this point, Im not even going to use it for that
The even bigger problem is that lowering U.S. emissions is, itself, far from risk-free, and Mr. Paulson's plea for a carbon tax exemplifies the problem. The Paulson piece never explicitly acknowledges that a carbon tax entails an economic cost. But by substituting more costly resources for cheaper fossil fuels, a tax would lower U.S. productivity. Instead, he throws up a cloud of rhetoric promising that a tax will lead to great innovation, and of course "jobs."
It is snowing and minus 9.5 degrees C at Casey this morning ?
As for the party leaders, consider some of the things that are now part of the official Texas Republican Party platform, as highlighted by The New Yorker's Hendrik Hertzberg:
Overarching the 12 modules is the Integrating Module, which consistently cycles, iteratively executing and allowing these various modules to interact with each other. Unknown variables that are related, such as a component of a particular module, are grouped together, and a pertinent subsystem of equations and inequalities corresponding to each group is solved via a variety of commonly used numerical analytic techniques, using approximate values for the other unknowns. Once a group's values are computed, the next group is solved similarly, and the process iterates. Convergence checks are performed for each price and quantity statistic to determine whether subsequent changes in that particular statistic fall within a given tolerance. After all group values for the current cycle are determined, the next cycle begins. HEM provides a number of diagnostic measures, based on differences between cycles, to indicate whether a stable solution has been achieved.
With the CO 2 content of the air increasing on the planetary scale, we take these findings to suggest that the aerial fertilization effect of the ongoing rise in atmospheric CO 2 concentration is providing a very real impetus for increased net primary production everywhere on earth and, hence, an increased impetus for preserving - and even enhancing - the species richness of both plants and animals over the entire globe. This conclusion further suggests that we not attempt to restrict anthropogenic CO 2 emissions via Kyoto-style interventions (see our Editorial Biodiversity, Productivity and CO 2 ); for with all of the other assaults on the biosphere produced by the activities of our burgeoning population, earth's plants and animals are going to need all the help they can get to maintain enough "critical biomass" to preserve their unique identities in the days and years ahead.
Drought has for the most part, become shorter, less frequent, and cover a smaller portion of the U. S. over the last century. Globally, there has been little change in drought over the past 60 years.
When the renewable energy bubble bursts, the global industry leader will be the biggest loser. With that in mind, the supposed race with China for green technological supremacy is one the U.S. would be wise to forfeit.
Weather Channel : UK Summer To Be A Scorcher Especially The First Half
The two parties became more internally homogeneous and distinct from each other. Partisan identities adjusted to reflect these changes. People became more comfortable living and socializing with those sharing similar values and group identities. Parties in government became more unified and strategic in the legislative arena.
Jack Dunavant, head of the Southside Concerned Citizens in nearby Halifax County, is another outspoken critic. He paints a picture of environmental apocalypse. "There will be a dead zone within a 30 mile radius of the mine," he says with a courtly drawl. "Nothing will grow. Animals will die. The radiation genetically alters tissue. Animals will not be able to reproduce. We'll see malformed fetuses."
Tenure is an amazing privilege for academics. And now we see in the Mann/UVa case, that the establishment academics are worried about fear of embarrassment by public disclosure and fear that those who dislike their findings will conduct invasive fishing expeditions in search of a pretext to discredit them. Come on, big boy pants please. We are talking about publicly funded research, and a primary concern is supposed to be avoiding embarrassing the scientists?
We have concluded that the Greenland and West Antarctica ice caps are melting at approximately half the speed originally predicted.The average rise in sea levels as a result of the melting ice caps is also lower.
And that makes this all the more interesting: "I present four reasons below that document why this temperature fails to accurately diagnose global warming."
Moser explains: "Manufacturing has the highest multiplier effect among the major sectors. Every job created in manufacturing creates additional jobs in other sectors that supply, support and service manufacturers."
Once more, the relationship in Figure 3 illustrates that multidecadal variations in the frequency and magnitude of El Nio and La Nia events cause the multidecadal changes in SST anomalies. But how do I verify that this is the case, and how do I illustrate it for those without science backgrounds? Again, for those who need to brush up on El Nio and La Nina events, refer to the post An Introduction To ENSO, AMO, and PDO Part 1 .
Global governance, the next new thing in trendy international thought, has been typically portrayed as the nearly inevitable evolution upward from the primitive nation-state and its antiquated notions of constitutionalism and popular sovereignty.
Data from the Energy Information Administration (EIA) show the United States reduced its carbon dioxide emissions by 12 percent between 2005 and 2015. Switching from coal to natural gas in the power sector was responsible for 68 percent of the total energy-related CO2 reductions during that period. Burning larger quantities of natural gas for electricity generation is the main reason the United States has reduced its CO2 emissions more than any other country in the world since 2005.
Lomborg is a statistician and was challenging the misapplication and misuse of statistics. He knew little about climate as evidenced in his book. In fact, Lomborg?s book was little different than Wildavsky?s because he proved that nothing in science, and especially environmental science, bears examination. He added the attention grabbing point that better priorities could be made and money better spent if research and analysis were improved.
Ive always wanted my photo in an ad all over the city, but I was hoping it would be for a TV show or something, not this, Mr. Berry said.
Johnathon Nott studied storm surges in North Queensland over the last 5,000 years and found that things have been fairly quiet for the last 200 years compared to the past.
Dalai LamaBuddhist mystical pantheistgot to go green with Red Popey
"Today's paradigm is that human emissions of greenhouse gases, especially carbon dioxide, will produce dangerous warming of the globe....When tested against empirical evidence this hypothesis fails." link
49 former NASA scientists and astronauts sent a letter to NASA Administrator Charles Bolden last week admonishing the agency for its role in advocating a high degree of certainty that man-made CO2 is a major cause of climate change while neglecting empirical evidence that calls the theory into question.
Ben Santer, the scientist who rewrote the main conclusions of the UN's 1995 Climate Assessment Report so as to change them from a statement that humanity was having no measurable effect on global temperature to a statement that humanity was affecting temperature.