Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
According to David Collins, professor of physical geography at the University of Salford, European glaciers melted more this year than at any time in his professional experience. In the long run "when the glaciers disappear, there will be no meltwater at all, and it will reduce as the glaciers get smaller and survive only on the highest mountains," he said.
Worn out after playing on the beach during his last trip to North Wales in May 2006.
The monsoon 2010 was also predicted to be a normal monsoon by most climate models. In reality, the monsoon rains were deficient in June 2010 by 16% but later in July and early August heavy rains in the northwest led to massive flooding in Pakistan (August 2010) and also in thenearby Indian States of Punjab & Rajasthan. Overall, monsoon 2010 was declared a flood monsoon with about 110% of rains country-wide, while northwest regions received as much as 125% of normal rains.
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It's time to show the world that America's leadership in this vital area of science and national security hasn't crashed and burned.
Summer cyclone chewing up Canadas Arctic sea ice | CTV News
The climate models can explain neither the past nor the present. It is far from obvious that policymakers should have faith in their predictions about the future.
This new scientific finding helps explain why the climate models have been such miserable failures regarding global warming predictions, as noted by these charts:
The theory of ???Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming?? (CAGW) is based on a string of inferences that begins with the assumptions that carbon dioxide is a ???greenhouse gas?? and that we are slowly driving up the atmospheric concentration by burning fossil fuels. It is therefore claimed as self-evident that the Global Average Surface Temperature (GAST) has already risen significantly and will continue to do so. Higher GAST is then presumed to lead to all sorts of negative consequences, especially Extreme Weather. They promote their ???Climate Models?? as a reliable way to predict the future climate. But these models dramatically fail basic verification tests. Nowhere do they admit to these well-known failures. Instead, we are led to believe that their climate models are close to perfection.
Since the 1990s, Dow Chemical, America's largest chemical company, has tried to brand itself as forward thinking on energy and environmental issues. It reduced the carbon footprint of its manufacturing processesa win-win situation that actually saved the company money while gathering plaudits from activists.
What if warming was set on fast forward, rather than pause? What if surface warming was progressing faster than 95% of the climate models had predicted, rather than slower than 95% of the models? How would the global warming establishment be playing it?
So what I have documented is a collection of observations and analyses that together is telling a story of relatively modest climate changes to come. Not that temperatures won?t rise at all over the course of this century, but rather than our climate becoming extremely toasty, it looks like we?ll have to settle (thankfully) for it becoming only lukewarm.
The energy and climate sections of the Democratic Party's 2016 platform, approved at the party convention in July, calls for a national mobilization to fight climate change.
"The financial crisis has disrupted the consumption of gasoline, which will have an effect on prices. However, we expect the prices that Georgian gasoline station owners receive at the pump to be in line with changes in consumers' incomes and the prices of substitutes and complements. We will not tolerate consumers taking advantage of Georgian business owners during a time of emergency."
Recently, Sierra Club members were told that they, ?supporters, partners, and allies have worked tirelessly to retire 150 coal-fired power plants since January 2010?a significant number in the campaign to move the country beyond dirty and outdated fossil fuels.?
Record snowfall takes Canadian city by surprise
More than 20 years ago, climate scientists began to sound the alarm over the possibility that global temperatures were rising due to human activities, such as deforestation and the burning of fossil fuels. In 1988, the World Meteorological Organization and the United Nations Environment Program created the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in order to study and better understand this potential threat. The IPCC's mission was to provide a "comprehensive, objective, scientific, technical and socio-economic assessment of human-caused climate change, its potential impacts and options for adaptation and mitigation."
Brown and Black coal provide electricity in Australia at less than 4c /KWhr, while Solar costs nearly 20c. Figures thanks to Alan Moran: Submission to the Renewable Energy Target Review Panel, IPA, 2014
It may seem like arcane bureaucratese, but an ???endangerment?? finding is actually a big deal that would hurt virtually every facet of the American economy. Under the Clean Air Act, an endangerment finding serves as a tripwire for a regulatory chain-reaction that would subject small businesses, farms, and any building larger than a mansion to costly red tape and endless paperwork.
Britain ends liberalised power prices: Gerard Wynn
I would also like to emphasize Lawson?s much needed criticism of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) for its claim that the solution for China and India would be ?investment in attractive public transport facilities and non-motorized forms of transport? (p. 68). For me, non-motorized forms of transport would be a bicycle, a rickshaw, a donkey, or an elephant. Or perhaps a hang glider. That?s blatant communism and, on top of that, incredible arrogance. I remember very well from my youth the official propaganda saying that private cars didn?t belong to a communist society.
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First, we see in ALL regions a negative correlation between temperature and the total number of strong to violent tornadoes in the U.S.
""Card check' circumvents a secret ballot election because it requires only that a majority of employees sign cards showing that they support union representation. Employees are often urged to sign cards publicly and in the presence of union organizers, which exposes them to high-pressure tactics that the secret ballot is intended to avoid."
The American Enterprise Institute is sponsoring a conference, The Greening of Global Warming, featuring Robert Mendelsohn of Yale University. Mendelsohn claims that global warming will not be as harmful as previously claimed. The conference will be held on July 26 at 1150 17th Street, NW, 12th floor, Washington, D.C. Registration begins at 1:45 p.m. Contact Amy Wendholt at (202) 862-5847 for more information.
Yes, Hansen actually made these forecasts (degrees C) in the year 1988 . We should be baking already, and Manhattan should be drowning .
In addition, I give my greatest appreciation and thanks to those people who I was lucky enough to actually meet and spend time with. These included Benny Peiser; Tim Daw; Nick Luke; the Old Seadog; the Bishop Andrew Montford; Christopher Monckton; Matt, Anya, and Matthew Ridley; Sir Humphry and Katharine Wakefield; Richard Marsh, the Chillingham Game Warden; David the Northumberland fishing guide; James Delingpole; and Josh the cartoonist. If Ive forgotten any, my apologies, youre included too. All of them without exception gave freely and generously of their time and energy to show the marvels and mysteries of their local countryside to three rather benighted and bemused Colonials you all have earned a special place in my pantheon of heroes, come and visit us when you have the chance and well return the favor.
Climate sensitivity is large in the vicinity of tipping points but moderate otherwise. A variable sensitivity as must be the case in such a finely balanced system as the Earths climate. While this is necessarily a simplified approach to a new mathematics of climate sensitivity it is nonetheless a vastly more sophisticated concept and overwhelmingly likely to be truer than back of the envelope constant high or low sensitivity calculations.
The American Meteorological Society (AMS) and Journal of Climate among others posthumously gave Saltzman the ultimate accolade, "father of modern climate theory" on the publication of his ground breaking "Theory of Climate' (2002).
As best we can determine from the Chinese scientists' graph, over the period of time depicted - when climate alarmists claim the world warmed at a rate that was unprecedented over the past millennium or two, and when the atmosphere's CO 2 concentration rose to values not seen for millions of years - the two "fatal threats to coral reefs," even acting together , could not prevent coral calcification rates on Meiji Reef from actually rising by about 11% over the past three centuries.
Rather than expand government, public policy should end preferential subsidies for politically favored energies, depoliticize access to public-land resources, and privatize such assets as the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Multi-billion-dollar energy programs at the U.S. Department of Energy can be eliminated. Such policy reform can simultaneously increase energy supply, improve energy security, reduce energy costs, and increase the size of the private sector relative to the public sector.
It's official: Federal inmates now have more rights than truck drivers .
This suggests that in the ice ages, the 8C lower temperature could be explained by a 30% drop in pressure. That is equivalent today of an altitude rise of 3200m. For us living in Scotland where our highest mountain (Ben Nevis) is around 1300m that sounds high.
Don't miss this Climate Skeptic post. Excerpt: This is a project my son did for Science Fair to measure the urban heat island effect in Phoenix. The project could also be called "Disproving the IPCC is so easy, a child could do it." The IPCC claims that the urban heat island effect has a negligible impact, even on surface temperature stations located within urban areas. After seeing our data, this claim will be very hard to believe.
"I am shocked and deeply distressed by the apparently deliberate targeting by Israeli Defence Forces of a UN observer post in southern Lebanon," - UN Sec. Gen. Kofi Annan: This week, an article in the Sept.4 issue of The Weekly Standard drops a bombshell;
CFACT will be there: exposing, debunking and offering constructive solutions.
Yes, I did write that. The trouble for Holman's argument is that the
AGU 2014: Quantifying the Mismatch between Climate Projections and Observations
The Nordic scientists say "the increase in SOC with temperature and precipitation is interpreted as an indirect effect of higher net primary production."?? More specifically, they say that, in Europe, "increasing site productivity has been reported in both nemoral forests and in boreal forests at higher latitudes (Eriksson and Karlsson, 1996; Skovsgaard and Henriksen, 1996; Cannell et al ., 1998)," and that this increase "could be attributed to increased atmospheric CO 2 concentrations along with the fertilizer effect of nitrogen deposition, and management regimes optimizing forest production." In light of these broad-based findings, it can be appreciated that just the opposite of what Bellamy et al . claim to be occurring in the top 15 cm of soils in England and Wales is happening in the top 100 cm of soils throughout much of the rest of Europe, producing a negative feedback to both rising air temperatures and CO 2 concentrations. Reference
There is good reason for this cooling climate consternation. As David Whitehouse at the Global Warming Policy Foundation points out : If we have not passed it already, we are on the threshold of global observations becoming incompatible with the consensus theory of climate change. Whitehouse notes that there has been no statistically significant increase in annual global temperatures since 1997. He goes on to say: If the standstill (lower temperatures) continues for a few more years, it will mean that no one who has just reached adulthood, or younger, will have witnessed the Earth get warmer during their lifetime. (Since 1997, atmospheric CO 2 has increased from 370 ppm to 390 ppm. )
Environmentalist Lawrence Solomon wrote in the Financial Post, Now an increasing number of scientists are swinging back to the thinking of the 1960s and 1970s. The global cooling hypothesis may have been right after all, they say Earth may be entering a new Little Ice Age.
Pundits and scholars had seen the establishment play along with Glenn Beckstyle radicalism and conspiracy-mongering before, only to engineer a nomination for a "regular" Republican leader. They assumed history would repeat itself, with a Bush, Rubio, Kasich, or Walker. We did not.
Example: The climate scientists at the British Met Office. They have always issued false alarms, and today we can even say systematic false alarms. Of all the annual forecasts on global temperature made this century, 14 in total, the scientists have wound up landing above the actual value 13 times. Paul Hudson, climate and weather expert of the BBC , points this out.
With average data looking like that, even Bond would be proud. Individual series often looked like this realistic piece of RegEMd jewelry. Imagine the pride you would feel presenting this piece of augmented data to your professor in college.
Similar motivation was the debate about the rights of future generations, excellently summarized recently by O. M. Hartwich, ?The Rights of the Future,? Policy, Vol. 25, No. 3, 2009; www.oliver-marc-hartwich.com/publications/the-rights-of-the-future. I agree with him that ?the very idea that there are some resources that we have borrowed from the future leads us into a logical dead-end? (p. 7). The question he raises: ?Do we owe the future generations a specific set of resources? Or do we simply owe them our best efforts to leave them a free and prosperous society in which they can make their own choices?? (p. 8) is very appropriate. It is, of course, not only about resources, it is about intertemporal decision-making in general. I am also convinced that the best thing we can do now is to leave our successors a free and democratic society.
Now we are giddy with confidence. We slip and slide down the mountain. A hundred yards from the road the zipper on one sleeping bag breaks. When we reach the car, though, my feet are warm and dry.
To scientists, these seemingly disparate incidents represent the advance signs of fundamental changes in the worlds weather. The central fact is that after three quarters of a century of extraordinarily mild conditions, the earths climate seems to be cooling down.
Its wrong for a tax-paid scientist writing in a tax-supported publication to smear another scientist. Seeing such tactics used against a scientist of Seitzs caliber is clearly a warning to others who would consider opposing officially sanctioned science. Genuine science will suffer from this attempt to suppress dissent.
Cutting our emissions by 10% or more below 1990 levels would require huge reductions of industrial and transportation energy use, extensive residential energy conservation programs, and elimination of coal use. Coal represents 30% of domestic energy production, and provides more than half of total U.S. electricity. The U.S. does not have adequate supplies of natural gas or alternative fuels to replace coal use by electric utilities (emphasis in original)."
Error 2. CAP and George Will have it wrong. Will wrote that it hasn??t warmed in ???more than a decade,?? while Brad Johnson claims that ???global warming is continuing.?? According to data from the University of Alabama in Huntsville, compiled by NASA??s Dr. Roy Spenser, there has been no statistical warming of lower atmosphere temperatures over the past seven years, despite the fact that global greenhouse gas emissions have increased.
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3 Third, the climate models predict a particular pattern of atmospheric warming during periods of global warming. In particular, the most prominent change they predict is a warming in the tropics about 10 km up, the so-called hotspot. But we have been measuring atmospheric temperatures by weather balloons since the 1960s, and millions of weather balloons say there was no such hotspot during the last warming from 1975 to 2001. The hotspot is integral to their theory, because it would be evidence of the extra evaporation and thickening of the water vapor blanket that produces two thirds of the warming in the climate models the carbon dioxide itself produces only one third of the projected warming, but is amplified in the models by water vapor. But in reality there is no hotspot, so there is no amplification, which is why the climate models have exaggerated temperature increases.
National Assessment on Climate Change makes a poor first impression
Skeptical Science can accuratelystate that the climate system is warmer today than it was several decades ago. However, the weblog is in error in stating thatthe most recent satellite data show that the earth as a whole is warming. There has not been warming significantly, if at all, since 2003, as most everyone on all sides of the climate issue agree. The real world evidence in these two figures document their erroneous statement.
Victorias Civil and Administrative Tribunal has scuppered the building of six coastal homes due to the threat of increasing storm severity and rising sea levels caused by climate change, in the first decision of its kind in Australia. In a ruling with implications for coastal developments, VCAT deputy president Helen Gibson and member Ian Potts concluded that climate change would make the land unsuited for the proposed development
John Fonte deserves our thanks and praise for wading through the morass of globalista writings, conference papers and speeches, U.N. resolutions and reports, and the panoply of studies written over decades while many in the United States proceeded blithely on their way, unaware of the mounting challenges to "Philadelphian sovereignty."
* Americans have grown increasingly dissatisfied with the position of the United States in the world today. Sixty-four percent in Gallup's March 2012 poll are dissatisfied. Like Japan in the late 1980s and early '90s, China is now seen as the economic powerhouse.
It's peak North Atlantic hurricane season again and much is being made of a supposedly increased hurricane threat due to man-made global warming.
And so who knows how many people have been persuaded by their local priest or bishop to become atheists!
The difference between the poles and the equator - 80 C - corresponds to roughly 10,000 kilometers. Divide it by 16 and you will obtain 5 C and 600 km.
They ridiculed the Board and demanded it drop its revised standards and ban facts which question the man-made global warming narrative from the classroom.
Perhaps the Governor is not skilled in math. Perhaps long division escapes him. Take the number of downed lines, flooded switches, blown transformers. Take the total hours to repair. Divide by the staff hours available per day ( there are only so many licensed and approved linemen and electricians who are also members of the right unions in your state, so allowed to do the work). Thats how many days it will take to complete. Oh, and like it or not, somebody has to be the last person connected.
Whether she can be prevailed upon or not, Professor Curry?s case highlights the importance of this battle and the need to make sure that free speech is not just for members of the global warming establishment, but also for the rest of us.
With this confirmation, one could assume that all warming since 1850 was due to human CO2 emissions, but then the logical conclusion is cast in concrete science - CO2's impact is shrinking towards zero, as observed, and likely will have even a smaller global warming impact in the future.
Even though it may seem that there is a whole range of institutions both here and overseas which bring together and support those who openly express doubts about the currently prevailing dogma of man-made global warming and who dare to criticize it, it apparently is still not enough. We are subject to a heavily biased and carefully organized propaganda and a serious and highly qualified forum here, on this side of the Atlantic, that would stand for rationality, objectivity and fairness in public policy discussion is more than needed. That is why I consider the launching of the foundation an important step in the right direction.
Analysis of 20 years of satellite data has revealed the total amount of vegetation globally has increased by almost the equivalent of 4 billion tonnes of carbon since 2003. This is despite ongoing large-scale deforestation in the tropics. , we found unexpectedly large vegetation increases in the savannahs of southern Africa and northern Australia. The increase in Australia occurred despite ongoing land clearing, urbanisation, and big droughts across other parts of Australia. The main cause of this strong growth over the savannahs came from higher rainfall, particularly in recent years, although higher levels of CO2 in the atmosphere may have helped plants there to grow more vigorously. ( Link )
My preferred comments about the similar questions are different. I say that to establish that two black hole interiors are connected by a wormhole, one has to see that these two black hole interiors contain "the same objects". But one may only measure the properties of the objects, e.g. spins of the electrons, and they may "happen" to look the same in both black hole interiors. But if two observers see objects (or sequences of spins) that look the same in two black holes, it doesn't prove that they are the same objects, anyway. If you find two caves in Afghanistan and each of them contains a terrorist, it doesn't mean that the caves are connected by a wormhole, or that it is the same cave. There may also be two twin Afghani terrorists over there.
Here is another way he can show the Chinese that when he has a goal he intends to pursue it, and if they try to thwart him, they will pay a high price indeed.
A similar abuse of the laws of physics is to be found in the arguments of creationists. Evolution cannot be true, they say, because it contradicts the law of entropy. Like them, environmentalists are resorting to the same tactic of hiding a political argument behind the authority of science. (Although of course, the creationists are hiding their own politics behind *bad* science.) So far, your argument boils down to the claim that the current scientific knowledge provides a comprehensive support of the environmentalist position. This is equivalent to the faith that you criticise Trotskyists for.
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"Wikipropganda," by Lawrence Solomon, National Review Online, July 8, 2008: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/224785/wikipropaganda-lawrence-solomon
Dr. Nigel Smith, a professor of geography at the University of Florida is a leading expert on the issue of the Brazilian rainforest and in his landmark paper, "Human-Induced Landscape Changes in Amazonia and Implications for Development," he begins by saying "One of the most persistent myths about Amazonia is that it has long been a wilderness, virtually untouched by humans until relatively recently. Amazonian forests are often portrayed as sparsely settled or essentially empty until modern times." As a result, he claims "The perception of Amazonia as raw, untamed nature awaiting modern development with few precedents has led to some inappropriate policy decisions."
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