Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
Their "work" is all about imposing a meaninglessly contrived language upon people. Moreover, Ms Marletto's understanding of energy dominated by the question whether it can be obtained for free is exactly the same childish misunderstanding of the concept that Feynman would humiliate in his text Judging Books By Their Covers . "Energy makes it go" was written as an answer to all questions in the book. Feynman pointed out that the children wouldn't learn a damn thing. They could have written "Wakalixes make it go" just as well. Moreover, the statements aren't really true because energy isn't what makes things go. It's just being converted from one form to another etc.
Levi, Ebinger and most recently the DOE addressed Markey's dubious thesis that expanding LNG exports would increase our dependence on foreign supplies. They concluded much the oppositea growing export market would increase energy security by expanding overall supply while also providing invaluable geopolitical chips to support US foreign policy goals, all with only minor impact on domestic prices.
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IT?S a prediction that means this may be time to dig out the snow chains and thermal underwear.
In America, it is harder to balance the electricity wind provides to the grid. Hydropower only supplies 6 percent of the electricity in the United States. In some markets, such as the Pacific Northwest, hydroelectric power is plentiful. But the fickle nature of electricity from wind means that even in the Pacific Northwest it is difficult to balance the electrical load and the Bonneville Power Administration is increasing rates for wind operators by 90 percent (down from a proposed 300 percent increase).
The observed reduction in warming trend over the period 1998-2012 as compared to the period 1951- 2 2012, is due in roughly equal measure to a cooling contribution from internal variability and a reduced trend in radiative forcing (medium confidence). The reduced trend in radiative forcing is primarily due to volcanic eruptions and the downward phase of the current solar cycle. However, there is low confidence in quantifying the role of changes in radiative forcing in causing this reduced warming trend. {Box 9.2; 10.3.1; Box 10.2}
If you were to take that argument to the nth degree, we should all be driving 18-wheelers. And the trend in society today is just the opposite, said Dave Schembri, president of Smart USA.
He oversaw the first orbital flight in 1981, just nine years after the program began. Then, after the Challenger disaster took the lives of McAuliffe and six other shuttle crew members on Jan. 28, 1986, he insisted that the program continue.
Sandra Brown, professor of forestry at U. of Illinois and Ariel Lugo, project leader at the U.S. Forest Service's Institute of Tropical Forestry in Puerto Rico also studied available data and "concluded the `dangerous' misinterpretation and exaggeration of the rate of deforestation has become common."
In 1908, a hurricane formed on March 6, the earliest on record. Ah, for the good old days of early spring hurricanes..
Junk Science: An Epidemic that Hurts Us All: an exclusive interview with Steven J. Milloy
Some might counter that the House bill touts complex tax credits for wind and solar development. However, when the wind isn??t blowing and the sun isn??t shining, those two alternatives don??t provide a watt of energy ??? they??re simply enhancements, not baseload providers. Additionally, the Kerry-Lieberman loan giveaway for the construction of nuclear plants ??? which do not generate carbon emissions ??? is simply a lure to entice gullible Republicans to bite, because the White House is not a fan of nuclear power.
The Church held sway over what is right and wrong for long after the Enlightenment, but it has been losing terrain. Others have stepped in to fill the moral vacuum. The environmental movement is one. There sure are environmental problems that should be solved, but some environmental organizations take it one step further. On offer are guidance how to live your life, a tribe to belong to, a feeling of superiority over outsiders, and even a looming Armageddon, lest we atone for our sins, in the shape of climate change.
Methods, brands, and models that work should be multiplied, those that don't work should be suppressed. Salaries in parts of the company that produce "too much" profit should be raised, relatively speaking, while those in the loss-making parts should be lowered. And the brands and the emotional attitude that various people have towards various brands should be just tools to achieve the actual goals higher profits and their growth and sustainability and not the ultimate goal of the decisions.
"This was a Soviet Union at the height of its global power and influence, both in its own view and in the view of the rest of the world." Leon Aron
Luciers attack on Seitz fits into a broader effort to squelch scientific debate on global warming. Last year, Vice President Al Gore and his minions claimed that a consensus of 2,500 scientists supported the theory that man-made emissions of greenhouse gases were disrupting Earths climate.
Having read too many Gore, Pachauri, Quinn and other Deep Ecology treatises, LunaBomber James Lee held Discovery Channel employees hostage and denounced the TV station for its support of "parasitic human infants," before being shot by police. His website and actions underscore how demented some Earth Liberation and global warming fanatics have become.
(f) I am not surprised or disappointed that you and other bloggers disapprove of our tactics. It is simply not your role in the controversy to be aggressive or controversial. But it is ours.
Elevated CO 2 increased rates of net photosynthesis in 74% of the reviewed studies. Some of the non-responsive observations were made late in the growing season when senescence was occurring. The CO 2 -induced increases in photosynthesis led to increases in total biomass ranging from 22 to 90% and averaging 33%, in spite of the fact that several of the studies were performed when environmental stresses and resource limitations made growing conditions less-than-optimal for this genus. In addition, elevated CO 2 reduced stomatal conductance and water loss in the majority of studies. What it means
Hmm. No lepers bell there. But perhaps Tim Flannery , then, is introduced as a paleontologist and mammalogist, not a climatologist who by definition works closely with people who pay him to scare us about global warming:
This comes on the heels of a review of the ICESat satellite data from 1992 to 2008, which showed a net gain in ice mass in Antarctica.
We are dealing here with something more like religion and less like science.
First, standard climate alarmism claims that manmade emissions of greenhouse gases are warming surface temperatures. But not only is such warming not being observed in Antarctica, its actually getting cooler in western Antarctica, according to surface temperature analysis from each of eight NASA stations located there.
Because the press hounds followed this red herring so eagerly, activists followed up through intimidating letters from congressman to university and corporate officials, naming skeptical scientists, implying that questioning climate dogma can have serious personal repercussions. Disturbing and threatening as the revealed totalitarian impulses of this activism is, it reinforces the lesson of the climategate scandal: popular climate discourse is actually a dogma posing as science. Not only does this undermine the credibility of science, but also it destroys the collegiality needed for scientists to question each other about their works in order to move human knowledge ahead. Science has been set back a generation by the red herrings of climate activism. Its time for it to end.
THE SOI INDICATES NO EL NINO EVENT IN 1943 OR 1944
Sen. McConnell warned, ?Considering that two-thirds of the U.S. Federal government hasn?t even signed off on the Clean Power Plan and 13 states have already pledged to fight it, our international partners should proceed with caution before entering into a binding, unattainable deal.
There were 124 separate occasions from November 2008 till December 2010 when total generation from the windfarms metered by the National Grid was less than 20MW (average capacity over the period was in excess of 1600MW).
Clearly, sea levels have actually been falling in the last decade, after very little change in the 1990s.
Phew! That took rather longer than originally expected. I'm finally back in the saddle, and bear the scars of a rather traumatic house move and a complete absence from the blogosphere for three weeks. I spent the first ten days like a lost sheep, wandering around aimlessly, unable to understand how any question, even the most simple, could be answered without a 2Mb broadband connection and the assistance of Mr Google. It's nice to be back. Lots of reading to catch up on though. Posting will resume in due course. Thanks for your patience.
The climate record indicates a solar effect of this kind. One example is the record of the sun's magnetism and reconstructed land temperatures of the Northern Hemisphere over 240 years (Figure 3).13 If changes in the sun's magnetism track changes in the sun's brightness, over these long time scales, they might explain the high correlation of solar magnetism with terrestrial temperature change. Climate models suggest that changes of roughly 0.5% in the sun's brightness would produce global average temperature changes of about 0.5 C over a century or so.14
The recent hype in Nature notwithstanding, Greenland has been cooling for the better part of two generations.
In one corner are William Galston and Elaine Kamarck, Democrats who held top jobs in the Clinton White House, writing in the Washington Post.
3 W.S.Broecker and G.H. Denon: What Drives Glacial Cycles ? Scientific American, Jan.1990
"..., this committee recommends an increased effort in research on the natural causes of climate change, in particular the activity variations of the sun, the mechanism of cloud formation, and the multi-decadal variations in ocean current systems."
When global warming alarmists claim winters will become warmer and free of snow, yet their predictions are proven false for 20 years in a row, at some point logical people come to realize that global warming alarmists are selling snake oil.
Local newspaper boasts ultimate passive-aggressive paywall policy:
A new Iowa state law to curb junk food consumption may make it much harder for school cafeterias to feed students. "Based on a strict interpretation of these new guidelines, six of our top revenue-producing food items would be eliminated," Dianne Duncan-Goldsmith, director of food service for the Iowa City school district, told The Daily Iowan. That would amount to nearly $200,000 in lost profits at a time when budgets everywhere are tight.
The result? Nothing, aside from promises by various countries to get serious "really serious "about carbon emissions sometime soon.
"An international group of scientists are aiming to create a simulator that can replicate everything happening on Earth - from global weather patterns and the spread of diseases to international financial transactions or congestion on Milton Keynes' roads."
The Chicago River is largely frozen over this morning, as a historically cold air mass plunges most of the nation into a deep freeze.The temperature at Chicago's O'Hare airport was 16 degrees below zero this morning, shattering the previous January 6 low temperature record of 14 degrees below zero set in 1884 and 1988.Temperatures at the South Pole were 11 degrees below zero five degrees warmer than Chicago at the time Chicago set its low temperature record..Meteorologists at Weather Bell reported the average temperature in the United States registered merely 14.8 degrees Fahrenheit this morning, with strong Arctic cold extending into South Texas and Florida.Global warming activists and their media allies have already begun blaming global warming for the record cold.The accompanying photo was taken this morning by Heartland Institute communications director Jim Lakely.
A Compelling Description of Water Resources and Global Water Policies
During the last interglacial, sea levels were 31 feet higher than the present, sea ice extent much less than the present, and Greenland was 8C warmer than the present , all with "safe" levels of CO2. There is no evidence the current interglacial is any different.
Working Group I depends entirely on climate models and 98% of them didnt predict the pause.
Let's cool it in heat of great debate
I can?t overstate the HUGE amount of political interest in the project as a
Furthermore, there has been no ???global warming??, in any statistically-significant sense, for 15 years. Indeed, there has been global cooling for nine years. In general, there was less warming in the southern hemisphere than in the northern hemisphere anyway. So the likelihood that manmade ???global warming?? had or has any measurable impact on the glaciers of the Andes is very small indeed. But that will not stop the likes of Al Gore and the New York Times (with which he works closely) suggesting otherwise.
Let us next consider the erroneous discussion by the authors of statistical significance of verification scores. The authors state the following: The nonsense predictor mentioned above (number of available grid points) scores RE=46% (and CE=-23%), which is more than any of the flavors ever approaches in the 100 random samples. And it is not unlikely that other nonsense predictors score even higher. On this background, the originally reported 57% of verification are hardly significant. This has already been claimed by McIntyre and McKitrick 2005b in a slightly different context.
I too don?t see why the schemes should be symmetrical. The temperature ones
The over-reaction was typified by Robert Watson, former head of the IPCC, who waxed lyrical to the Observer about what this could mean for the administration: "It's hugely embarrassing.... If climate change is a threat to national security and the economy, then has to act. There are two groups the Bush Administration tends to listen to, the oil lobby and the Pentagon."
that there are lessons to be learned - data should be available to the wider public
ethanol last year, yet it provided only one per cent of the countrys
The1899 San Ciriaco hurricane was the longest lasting storm on record, and killed more than 3,000 people.
At the same time that the President was announcing the Californication of the country's automobile fleet, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman (D-Beverly Hills) is pushing through an anti-energy bill designed to export the Golden State's failed energy model to the rest of the country. The bill, the Clean Energy and Security Act, borrows liberally from California's climate initiatives, including a cap-and-trade scheme, a renewable energy requirement, and a low-carbon standard.
There was just one problem. The CAA is a highly interconnected statute. As Attorney Peter Glaser cautioned in congressional testimonies , once you start regulating CO 2 under oneprovision of the Act, you end up having to regulate CO 2 undermultiple provisions. The endangerment finding wouldinitiate a regulatory cascadethat couldgive thegreenhouse lobby everything it had ever demandedand more.Bushs EPA could tee up Al Gores regulatory agenda on steroids but without any of Gores allies on the Hill voting for it or taking responsibility for the compliance burdens and economic fallout, energy realists warned .
Dumping them all into the public domain would be the last resort. Majority of the emails are irrelevant, some of them probably sensitive and socially damaging.
liquid ocean, whose heat capacity and mass/energy transport with the atmosphere dominate the earth's weather.
The errors in the record exceed by a wide margin the purported rise in temperatures of 0.7 degrees C (about 1.2 degrees F) during the twentieth century, Watts said. See for yourself at Surfacestations.org
And an ideal carbon tax can be shown to have only modest damage to the economy .
The march was an excuse for those who are perpetually angry that the top 50% have so much more than the bottom 50%. Arguably, the environmental movement has been hijacked by anti-capitalists who think everyone can live in peace, harmony, and prosperity without anyone having to work hard.
Charlie Crist: The Florida governor's presence would spark the age-old debate between GOP conservatives and moderates. Crist might want to talk to Rudy Giuliani, who spent nearly $50 million on his presidential effort and secured all of one delegate.
A better way to look at this is in cross plots of the corresponding CO2-temperature data as shown below. If there is 95% certainty that global warming is predominately caused by manmade activities the relationship should be easily discernible including by the naked eye. In fact the cross plot below covering over the period mentioned there were two hiatuses totaling 35 years out of the total 56 years (nearly two-thirds of the time), exhibiting no or very little correlation between CO2 and global mean temperature. So how can the IPCC in AR5 increase the probability (to 95%) of manmade causes being the overwhelming predominant and by implication the only important forcing of global warming? (my question).
"here is potential for positive foreign policy impacts from US entry in the global gas market, through both increased supply diversity for strategic gas-importing allies, and as a contributory factor in weakening the oil linked contract pricing structure that works to the advantage of rent-seeking energy suppliers," Ebinger and colleagues concluded in their Brookings analysis.
Ive finished reading Donna Laframboises book The Delinquent Teenager Who Was Mistaken for the Worlds Top Climate Expert: An Expose of the IPCC .
Swissvale man accused in casino thefts arrested by federal agents:
The Californian company bankrolls businesses hoping to profit from technology that helps reduce global warming and carbon emissions.
They state: "we have shown that bad weather may affect electoral outcomes by significantly decreasing Democratic presidential vote share, to the benefit of Republicans". And they make a compelling case that weather has decided some presidential elections.
I was reading through the latest State of the Climate in 2006 put out by AMS, and was kind of puzzled by their discussion of Antarctic Sea Ice on page S74. while there was considerable discussion of the reduction of sea ice in the Arctic, there was no discussion of the rising trend of March sea ice as shown on the lower left of Fig 5.22. In fact, after reading through the discussion, I at least, was left with impression that negative ice cover trends and locations where they took place were more important than the overall positive trend as shown in the figure.
Russian President Proposes Creative Commons-Style Rules Baked Directly Into Copyright:
Rick Piltz at Climate Science Watch reports that the U.S. House of Representatives votes 244-179 to kill funding for the UN IPCC.
Great way to cap off a less than perfect year for the warmist camp, says Allan.
Witch trials were completely legal and were administered by highly educated upper level social strata.
Frank Pallone (D- N.J.) will introduce a bill that would create an emission trading system amongst electric power plants with caps on emissions. According to the BNA Daily Environment Report (July 2, 1999) the "bill would impose a cap and allow trading of nitrogen oxides, sulfur dioxide, and carbon dioxide emission allowances." Also, it "would amend the Federal Power Act and require the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to set standards for those pollutants' cap levels."
You can read the whole paper "Carbon cycle modelling and the residence time of natural and anthropogenic atmospheric CO2: on the construction of the "Greenhouse Effect Global Warming' dogma" by Tom V. Segalstad, one of the chapters in the book Bate, R. (Ed.): "Global Warming: The Continuing Debate", European Science and Environment Forum (ESEF), Cambridge, England (ISBN 0-9527734-2-2), pages 184-219, 1998.
To fully understand the context of Vilsack's actions, some background is essential.
Here we see that while warming was most rapid in the N. Hemisphere during this period, it was also present in the tropics in southern hemisphere. The contradicts Trenberth??s assertion that the early warming period was not globally distributed.
6. No Global Warming for 15 Years: David Whitehouse. http://jennifermarohasy.com/2012/04/no-global-warming-for-15-years-david-whitehouse/
"Last week, as President Obama delivered his economic speech deriding the so-called 'trickle-down' economic policies that created 16 million jobs under President Reagan, his Energy Department was preparing to announce the next stage of a policy that may never create any. Why Obama is doubling and tripling down on one of his worst and most embarrassing policy mistakes is anybody's guess. Maybe it's change that only he and global warming diehards can believe in."
There has been a technological revolution in the natural gas industry over the last decade. In that time, a drilling process known as hydraulic fracturing , or ???fracking,?? has become economically viable, thereby allowing for the exploitation of huge natural gas reserves that had been too expensive to recover. As a result, America??s natural gas supply has roughly doubled.
Given the intense interest in Arctic Sea Ice this year, since it appears we have a potential for recovery again, I??ve decided to put all the sea ice graphs and imagery in one handy place for easy nail biting reference.
The proposed EPA plan will chase away more American industry
The definition of fully consistent is that they are on a mission and have little or no evidence. The fall in temperatures after 1950 was fully consistent withenteringan ice age.
Despite claims that it continues to get warmer and warmer, this table from NOAA/NCDC indicates that 2011 was in the middle of the pack, going all the way back to 1980 (the start of the global warming era). Such remote years as 1981, 1986, 1987, and 1990 were hotter.
New York Times Columnist Tom Friedman Hails China's One-Party Autocracy
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A Dark Victory: How vested interests defeated climate science
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The climate change fraud that is now unravelling is unprecedented in its deceit, unmatched in scopeand for the liberal elite, akin to 9 on the Richter scale. Never have so few fooled so many for so long, ever.
Do you understand that the correct null hypothesis is that gentle warmings, such as that which occurred between 1979 and 1998, and equivalent coolings, are to be viewed as due to natural causes unless and until evidence indicates otherwise. Gentlemen, where is that evidence, and why is it not presented in the voluminous reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that you and the government so often refer to?
Dalton McGuinty??s Green Energy Act is already destroying jobs as energy costs rise and the opposition has targeted the province??s impossible green energy math as an election issue.
The President says that, America cannot resist this transition; we must lead it.We cannot cede to other nations the technology that will power new jobs and new industries we must claim its promise. But thats just it how does he know, despite the Solyndra and other failures, the tiny market shares of politically-correct renewables, and the intractable dependence of renewables on policy privileges thatwind and solar power are the future?What information does he have that tens of thousands of savvy investors dont?
People haveresponded to Osbornes Budget with protests up and down the country, and leading figures from the Green Parties were fast to criticise the measures included in theBudget. In her response to theBudget, Green MP Caroline Lucas said it was cruel and counterproductive and a serious blow for the fight against climate change. -- Bright Green, 8 July 2015