Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
The frequency of extreme floods also increased during the early and middle portions of the first millennium AD, many of which coincided "with glacial advances and cool, moist conditions both in the western U.S. and globally." Then came a "sharp drop in the frequency of large floods in the southwest from AD 1100-1300," which corresponded, in her words, "to the widespread Medieval Warm Period, which was first noted in European historical records." With the advent of the Little Ice Age, however, there was another "substantial jump in the number of floods in the southwestern U.S.," which was "associated with a switch to glacial advances, high lake levels, and cooler, wetter conditions."
All 16 models examined have the same fatal flaw: They predict rain too easily, by artificially elevating air and water masses in the atmosphere.
I'm less convinced that we know enough to quantify how much humans have contributed to the warming, via which activities, or how much change we could avert by modifying those activities.
In its Report to the President, EPA "concludes that concern about the scope of the routine maintenance exclusion is having an adverse impact on projects that affect availability, reliability, efficiency, and safety."27 Concerning nonutility companies, EPA says "concern about the scope of the routine maintenance exclusion is having an adverse impact on industries outside the energy sector. It also is credible to conclude that projects have been discouraged that might have been economically and/or environmentally beneficial without increasing actual emissions."28
Hansen is the politicized NASA climate scientist who virtually invented the global warming issue in the broiling summer of 1988 when he was the star doomsayer at Senate hearings called by Al Gore.
But Michael Mann has been a voluntary public figure since at least 1998. He first volunteered to be a public figure as early as April 22, 1998 when he appeared on NBC Nightly News to discuss his hokey stick study.
A quote from an IPCC participant: After being several times, I still have no idea how I was selected. This is unacceptable.
Britain has recorded its hottest day ever as the temperature soared to 38.1C (100.6F) in Gravesend, Kent.
The document, an update on Solyndras $535 million Energy Department (DOE) loan guarantee, notes that $527 million had been disbursed and that DOE believed no more funds should be alloted.
Environmentalists campaigned to include these "indirect" emissions in the Environmental Protection Agency's calculation of ethanol's "lifecycle emissions." It's an important distinction, because in 2007, Congress also imposed a requirement that most new ethanol production should produce 20 percent less "lifecycle" greenhouse gas emissions than gasoline.
If there is no tropical upper troposphere hotspot, then there is no positive feedback, and thus, no climate change crisis as predicted by the IPCC. If there is no hotspot, then the IPCC hypothesis of CO2 caused global warming (AGW) is essentially proven false.
Yet data of observed reality collected from the U.N.s International Panel on Climate Change and the U.S. National Climate Data Center does not show increasing frequency of extreme weather across the globe, whether you look at hurricanes, tornadoes, droughts, or floods.
(click to enlarge) Source: Svend Erik Hendriksen, Greenland Art Review, Greenland
There are a number of ways to present the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation. The NOAA ESRL simply detrends the North Atlantic sea surface temperature anomalies. Thats the most common way. Another way: Trenberth and Shea (2006) subtracted global sea surface temperature anomalies, excluding the polar oceans (60S-60N), from sea surface temperature anomalies of the North Atlantic (0-60N, 80W-0). That method accounts for the additional variability of the North Atlantic data above the variations in the global data. Unfortunately, the North Atlantic is included in the global data so theyre subtracting a portion of the North Atlantic from itself, and that becomes a problem in the early part of the data. Sea surface temperature data sampling is best in the North Atlantic, especially in the 1800s and early 1900s, so a greater portion of the global data is from the North Atlantic then.
Dig a bit deeper, and it is obvious that voters are tired of the partisan bickering and ideologically driven rancorthey want problems solved in Washington, not yelling or posturing or revenge killing that only results in gridlock. The latter is what they see coming out of Congress.
CEI Weekly: Cuomo's Antitrust Witch Hunt
Villagers fight plans for huge 'eco towns'
Indian Drought of 1965-1967-Over 1.5 million perish in India
TCR calculation based on AR5 forcing estimates
Congressional committees and our next President must subject secret data, computer codes, models, and studies to full review by independent experts to determine which assertions, policies, and regulations are reasonable and legitimate, and which are based on serious error, deceptive claims, or outright fraud.
Utility MACT Resolution: Stopping President Obama's War on Coal
I am contacting you regarding your contributed paper. Attached is a letter from Randy Schekman.
Fort Denison , an old penal colony in the middle of Sydney Harbour, has one of the oldest tide gauges around, having been located there for 128 years. During this period, the sea level has risen just 6.5 cm, or about two and a half inches.
UN And Met Office Experts : "low-altitude destinations are no longer getting enough snow"
Jacobson said the sum of warming caused by all anthropogenic greenhouse gases CO 2 , methane, nitrous oxide, chlorofluorocarbons and some others plus the warming caused by black and brown carbon will yield a planetary warming effect of 2 degrees Celsius over the 20-year period simulated by the computer. But light-colored particles white and gray particles primarily reflect sunlight and enhance cloudiness, causing more light to reflect.
White House, Greens target Atlantic fishing grounds
Benjamin Zycher is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute.
The total amount of fossil fuel burned to date (historically to 2010) by humans is 3.7 x 10^14 kg-C, less than half of the carbon contained in the atmosphere as a minor constituent gas
Some rule makers are more active than others. Out of 61 rulemaking agencies, just fivethe departments of Treasury, Agriculture, Commerce, and Interior and the Environmental Protection Agencyaccount for 46 percent of all rules in the pipeline.
The snow and ice by contrast are here now. They are stopping people getting to school and work. It is time our authorities shook off their can?t-do attitude and started investing in the means to do what much colder countries seem to achieve effortlessly: keeping the nation moving.
Study: Neither HFCS nor table sugar increases liver fat under "real world' conditions
Eugene Trisko, United Mine Workers Association
And impressive they are. The moderator was Jeffrey Mervis, a senior correspondent at Science. There was Rush Holt, a former research physicist, a former congressman, and now CEO of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). There was Dahlia Sokolov, the minority staff director for the Research and Technology Subcommittee of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. There was Al Teich, now a professor at GWU, and formerly the director of science and policy programs at the AAAS. Perhaps less impressive, there was little old me.
Basically, sending your photos to these sites is a bit like sending someone to North Korea - they go in but never come out. Someone just shared a shutterfly album with me and God forbid you want to actually save some of the full-resolution images rather than just buy prints from them. At best these sites have some kludgy way to download full resolution photos one at a time, but it is never, ever easy and none have, as far as I have been able to see, a batch download function. Flickr is the best in several ways due to its API that lets me automatically share albums and photos pretty easily in WordPress, but its core interface is now so ugly with the revamp a few years ago that I can barely stand to open it (and they tend to change names for the same damn thing - set, album, collection, etc - depending on which menu or context you find it).
Elevated CO 2 preferentially stimulated belowground growth in seedlings growing in nitrogen-poor soil, which increased their root to shoot ratios. However, elevated CO 2 increased both the above- and below-ground biomass of seedlings growing in nitrogen-rich soil. In fact, the CO 2 -enriched seedlings in the nitrogen-rich soil produced 217 and 533% more stem and coarse-root biomass, respectively, than their ambiently-grown counterparts subjected to high concentrations of soil nitrogen. Overall, elevated CO 2 enhanced total seedling biomass by approximately 140 and 30% under nitrogen-rich and nitrogen-poor soil conditions, respectively.
Finally, he is a scientist, and doesn't place his faith in soothsayers: he reminds people that we can not predict the future.
Climate researchers do not know nearly as much about the causes of climate change as they profess. We have a pretty good understanding of how the climate system works on average?but the reasons for small, long-term changes in climate system are still extremely uncertain.
I am a mean R programmer (I curse the computer a lot) and am eager to demonstrate the usefulness of predictive statistics to some adventurous firm.
In the past model-data comparisons of satellite-era sea surface temperatures (see the posts here and here ), Ive compared the data and model outputs for the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. For this post, Ive divided the global data into three subsets: the tropical oceans (24S-24N), and the extratropical oceans of the Northern Hemisphere (24N-90N) and the Southern Hemisphere (90S-24S).
Just to be clear, my statement that polar bears can survive climate change but for mans greed, does not translate to not threatened by climate change. Certainly, if not for the decline in sea ice, polar bears would have a better future. The contraction of polar bear populations will indeed follow the loss of sea ice habitat. The survival of a great many bears will be threatened. This threat is a clear and present danger directly attributable to climate induced sea ice reduction.
This regression produces a global warming signal which is about half of that predicted by the global warming models. The F statistic at 4,308 passes a 99.9% confidence interval.
Now that Russia is rich with oil money and has paid its debts to the West, what Russia wants from the West is respect.16 Russia's nuisance capacity should not be underestimated, even though threats to withdraw from the CFE Treaty, or to turn the Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF) into a "natural gas OPEC," are intended primarily for domestic consumption and to signal that NATO has enlarged far enough.
a) Cochrane-Orcutt (CO) , with two-sided confidence intervals, calculated assuming the uncertainty in the mean is t-distributed and
Marlo Lewis, MasterResource.org , 30 March 2010
NASA GISS: Science Briefs: Whither U.S. Climate?
Tonight: Snow could be heavy at times. Low around 22. South southwest wind between 13 and 18 mph. Chance of precipitation 100%. New snow accumulation of 12 to 18 inches possible.
Oh Dear! So a long term declining trend was removed before Mann merged ? That sounds like a very serious issue in the Mann hockey stick, and Keith is not keen on recognizing it I think I like this Esper guy. Truth first, consequences to be accepted.
Perhaps the most damning assessment of EVs came from the Congressional Budget Office in a September report (PDF). The CBO estimated that the lifetime cost of owning an electric vehicle or plug-in hybrid is $16,000 to $19,000 more than that of a conventional car. Despite those higher costs of ownership, the CBO estimated that federal subsidies for EVs will total $7.5B over the next seven years.
In that respect, it is worth remembering that, in its day, SEATO included non-Asian countries like the UK and France, whose threat perceptions over time evolved differently from those of Australia and New Zealand (not to mention Thailand or the Philippines), and eventually SEATO went the way of the dodo.28 Therefore, when talking about NATO's global partners, one cannot avoid raising SEATO-related issues: Do allies and would-be partner nations have the same threat perceptions? What kind of "added value" will the concept of global partnership offer not only to the former, but also to the latter? In what ways can global partners become a force multiplier for the Atlantic Alliance, and in what way can it lead instead to an "entangling alliance"?
Fossil fuels have provided the energy to improve farming yields, grow manufacturing and business, and are now powering data servers and even the Cloud, Mr. Duncan said. And while we have all benefited from reliable, clean coal electricity, there are still those who seek to end this American form of power. More and more, this Administration has abdicated its energy policy to the EPA whose regulations will shutter existing coal power plants and thwart the construction of new ones. We would hope that evidence in support of the benefit of fossil fuels, including clean coal, will help bring common sense to the regulatory process.
This long-term study of oak trees growing in a natural setting provides strong parallel evidence for the reality of the large CO 2 -induced growth stimulation that has long been evident in the sour orange tree study of Idso and Kimball (2001) . It also provides strong evidence for the observation of Curtis et al. (2003) that the meta-analysis of Jablonski et al. (2002) suggests that drought does not diminish the positive effects of atmospheric CO 2 enrichment on plant growth and development. Indeed, it indicates that it actually tends to enhance this stimulatory phenomenon, as was earlier demonstrated by the meta-analysis of Idso and Idso (1994). References
1) Climate models overwhelming expected much more warming to have taken place over the past several decades than actually occurred; and
I believe that there has never been a socially relevant area examined by science that has been more meticulously checked for errors than climate science.
S. T. Karnick is director of research for The Heartland Institute and editor of The American Culture.
I'd like to remind my colleagues that this resolution will likely be the vote on coal for the year so this is our one chance. Many of my Democrat colleagues have gone on record saying they want to rein in the Obama-EPA. The senior Senator from Missouri is one of them: she said back home that she is determined to "hold the line on the EPA." Does that mean she, and other Senate Democrats who have made similar statements, will vote to stop the centerpiece of Obama's war on coal?
In his June 26 op-ed, "ExxonMobil's climate-change smoke screen," Yale Law School Dean Robert Post called me and others who invoke the First Amendment to question the prosecution of those who dispute the legitimacy of climate change "grossly irresponsible." He called global warming "perhaps the single most significant threat facing the future of humanity." But human-induced global warming is unproven, not an undisputed fact. Mr. Post claimed that if ExxonMobil or others had committed "fraud," that trumped the First Amendment. However, "simply labeling an action . . . "fraud' . . . will not carry the day," the Supreme Court explained in 2003.
In a recent report, US Energy Scenarios for the 21st Century, the Pew Center on Global Climate Change looked at three possible scenarios for future US energy use and found that in all of them greenhouse gas emissions would remain significantly above the US targets under Kyoto. This is especially notable in that the Pew Center is a front group for multi-national corporations that hope to profit from energy rationing.
1: Roy Spencer has a PhD in meteorology. 2: Roy Spencer has been doing climate research for over 20 years. 3: His research has been mostly under contract to NASA, NOAA, and DOE. 4: He has testified in Congress several times on the general subject of climate change. 5: He has published two popular books on the global warming issue.
Moreover, the people who EPA claims are most at risk, most susceptible to getting horribly sick and even dying, from exposure to these particulates were precisely the same people recruited by EPA and its EPA-funded research teams: the elderly, asthmatics, diabetics, people with heart disease, children. And to top it off, the test subjects were exposed to eight, thirty or even sixty times more particulates per volume for up to two hours than they would breathe outdoors, and what EPA claims are dangerous or lethal.
Walker is part of a group of 17 state attorneys general who said they would use their prosecutorial powers as law enforcement officials to go after those that have sought to cover up the evidence of climate change that is placing the public at risk.
A book that raised hackles and experienced personal attacks from the environmentalists was Bjorn Lomborg?s The Skeptical Environmentalist. UN IPCC chief, Rajendra Pachauri, compared him to Hitler. It is typical of Pachauri?s lack of understanding and undiplomatic reactions, but he wasn?t alone. Almost everyone, including most skeptics, misunderstood what Lomborg was saying, especially about climate. People on both sides of the climate issue were fooled by Lomborg?s use of ?skeptic? in his title. Too many people designated climate skeptics by the warming alarmists and those questioning extreme environmentalism were desperate for a public relations victory.
Lake Powell Water Levels as a Proxy for Western Snowfall
FactCheck: A more recent study in Science, published in February, reports that Greenland's glaciers accelerated their movement to the sea between 1996 and 2000. It concluded, "As more glaciers accelerate farther north, the contribution of Greenland to sea-level rise will continue to increase."
In addition to Proposition 65, As You Sow uses the federal securities laws to accomplish its agenda. As You Sow buys small amounts of stock in a number of companies in order to file shareholder resolutions that pressure corporate managements. Though these nuisance resolutions are always soundly defeated by shareholders, they make some CEOs wobbly-kneed.
The two graphs below show what temperatures used to look like in the US and Iceland, before they were tampered with at GISS. The 1930s was the hottest decade, and temperatures were declining. This disprovedHansenstheories, so he had to get rid of the graphs.
Fourth, some may be tempted simply to pretend to believe that a mix of Chinese or Indian "no-regrets" policies constitutes serious action on GHG controls. (No-regrets policies are those that would be rational to adopt even in the absence of concerns about climate change.) China and India, for reasons unrelated to climate, are very likely to adopt such policies. Their economies exhibit very low energy efficiency. They enjoy many options for making energy savings that will be cost-beneficial quite independently of concerns about climate. Chinese and Indian actions to reduce this waste are, therefore, properly regarded as corrections to the estimates of their baseline GHG growth; as such, they are welcome. They are, however, not done in response to U.S. action, and they will affect GHG growth paths only at the margin.
A review of those articles shows that the vast majority of them were written by Romm. In reply to Romm's increasingly shrill attacks, Pielke was civil, even gentlemanly. In 2010, Pielke challenged Romm to a public debate in Romm's hometown, at a date and venue of his choosing offering to contribute up to $10,000 to the winner's favorite charity. Romm, to his eternal discredit, refused. Furthermore, on his blog, Romm routinely deleted comments he didn't like, including those that called him out for ducking Pielke's challenge to debate.
So, Schmidt and Sherwood is an interesting read, but I'm not sure that the poor policymaker will draw much comfort from it.
The latest effort came last week when the Environmental Protection Agency issued its new rule to slash emissions of methane, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling. The industry will be required to cut methane emissions by 40% to 45% over the next decade from 2012 levels. The rule spares existing wells that make no changes, but all new or modified wells will have to install costly new methane mitigation systems.
May, 2009 shows the greatest ice extent in the AMSR-E record, which seems to contradict Hadow??s highly publicised remarks about Arctic ice health.
Global warming theory proponents have ,resorted to the politics of fear to drive their point home. They argue that man-made greenhouse gases are already causing the world's glaciers to melt, causing sea levels to rise and threatening humanity with a multitude of economic and environmental calamities. A recent Smithsonian Institution exhibit on climate change, for instance, included a depiction of the Washington Monument partially submerged in the Atlantic Ocean, leaving visitors with the distinct impression that we must reduce greenhouse gas emissions now if we want our descendants to be able to visit the famous monument. But such scenarios belong in the realm of science fiction, not science fact.
In the last post was an explanation of the difference between energy and energy flux. Energy is generally a simple static scalar quantity, while flux refers to an instantaneous expenditure of energy.
Pierre Latour goes on to discuss back radiation and repeats the fundamental 2 nd Law of Thermodynamics with the words Heat does not flow from cold matter to hot matter, heating hot further; only from hot to cold.
Making energy cleaner in the present context means banning (rapidly phasing out) the carbon-based fuels that currently supply 82% of U.S. and world energy consumption, and are projected ??? absent additional market-rigging interventions ??? to supply 80% of U.S. energy in 2040.
Most troubling, under CAA 110(a)(2)(D), sources in one state are prohibited from contributing to NAAQS non-attainment in another state. Given the long residence time of GHGs in the atmosphere, an argument could be made that almost any quantity of emissions anywherecontributes to NAAQS non-attainment everywhere. Hence, to avoid contributing to NAAQS non-attainment in other states,most sources would simply have to shut down!
/s/ Dr. Lubert Leger JSC, Asst. Chief Materials Division, Engr. Directorate, 30 years
However, Ostlund said incinerating the garbage may be a better plan than leaving it in a landfill.
The emails which are now public reveal that Mr Holland??s requests under the Freedom of Information Act were not dealt with as they should have been under the legislation. Section 77 of the Freedom of Information Act makes it an offence for public authorities to act so as to prevent intentionally the disclosure of requested information. Mr Holland??s FOI requests were submitted in 2007/8, but it has only recently come to light that they were not dealt with in accordance with the Act.
Chlorofluorocarbons were primarily used as refrigerants, propellants, and in fire control systems. They were uniquely well-suited to these applications. CFCs are non-toxic, chemically inert, non-corrosive, non-flammable and roughly four times heavier than air. Their physical characteristics makes them ideal refrigerants. Because they are so chemically inert, non-toxic, and non-flammable, they are excellent aerosol propellants. They are inexpensive to produce and easy and safe to handle. CFCs made modern refrigeration and air conditioning affordable and widely available.
new un sanctions resolution several months later. Indeed, the inconvenient fact for
"Two U.N. studies and even Myers agree closely in their estimates of the Brazilian deforestation rate between 0.0025 and 0.004 percent per year even Lovejoy's "low" assumption would be perhaps 10 times too high."