Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
CCLPs report directed its sharpest criticism at the programs high costs and limited emissions reductions. According to the report, the program by 2008 had reduced the nations carbon dioxide emissions by only 0.015 percent, at an average social abatement cost of $257 Australian to $301 Australian per ton of reduced carbon dioxide emissions. CCLP noted if a primary object of PVRP-SHCP was to increase public awareness and acceptance of renewable energy, it could have been obtained at a fraction of the cost through other strategies.
In 40 years the house at 48 Oceanside Drive has been rebuilt 9 times by National Flood Insurance . The Globe says thats sea level rise, even damage from the blizzard of 78. Sea level rise is the popular alarmist scare, but even the Globe ought to realize the term can be overused. Build on the seashore and you should expect storm damage every now and then.
Unfortunately, the Sarkozy team postulates variables for which no country currently collects data because data are simply not measurable. We should stick with what can be measured robustly and include subjective personal and social evaluations with care. But we should not embrace speculative valuations of our environment because history suggests the "values" generated will be used by elites to drive policies they like at others' expense.
Does Global Warming Cause Severe Cold Spells? Court Orders Release of Concealed Records
Coldest winter in at least 25 years in the US
"Next week, the House of Representatives will vote on H.R. 2, a measure to repeal Obamacare in its entirety. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) today released a report stating that repealing the health care law would increase the deficit by $145 billion between 2012 and 2019."
11. Barry Commoner predicted that decaying organic pollutants would use up all of the oxygen in America's rivers, causing freshwater fish to suffocate.
The buyer's remorse felt by so many in the party establishment including the pathetic #NeverTrump movement went nowhere. Only a handful of significant Republican officeholders, led by Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse, emphatically rejected Trump. Other conservative figures, including the columnists George F. Will, Charles Krauthammer, William Kristol, Kathleen Parker, and Michael Gerson, have been deeply and eloquently disdainful, but many of these same people had missed repeated opportunities over the years to identify and condemn the party's drift to radicalism.
V. Klaus, D. T? ska, ?Ke kritice pou? vn konceptu solidarity a diskriminace v intertemporln anal ze tzv. globln ch problm?? (To the Critique of Using the Concepts of Solidarity and Discrimination in the Intertemporal Analysis of so called Global Problems), Politick ekonomie, No. 6, 2007. Document in Czech language is avalable here. (pdf, 400kB)
Gore is hot -- will the Peace Prize follow the Oscar?
The first and second email batches contained conversations among "scientists" who appear to have dishonored a once respectable discipline, documenting that their claims of a "man-made global warming crisis" look exactly like deliberate contrivances for academic career gain, research funding and positions of political power in "the cause."
Looks like I picked a good time to live in Saskatchewan, where the words "global economic collapse" translate to "12 month hunting season". Meanwhile... (I know, I know. Lots of new boats. So, it's probably nothing.)
Although long-term fertilization of nine years decreased plant diversity, it increased plant productivity; and this phenomenon caused an increase in arthropod species richness by significantly increasing the numbers of parasite and predator species. Short-term fertilization also increased plant productivity, but without reducing plant diversity; and it too significantly increased arthropod diversity by increasing the species richness of herbivores, parasites, and predators. These results demonstrate that increases in plant productivity lead to increases in the diversity of organisms higher up the food chain, such as herbivores, parasites and predators. What it means
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John F. Kennedy spent his first year as president trying Keynesian economics, seeking economic growth through increased government spending. That didn't work, so he advanced supply-side tax cuts that led to an economic boom. Hillary Clinton has her own school of economics, to the left of Keynes, where tax rate cuts inexplicably cause recessions. Neither she, nor President Obama, has any concept of how to promote economic growth and prosperity which is why we've experienced the slowest economic recovery since the Great Depression. READ MORE
Indeed, as CEI and several of its free-market brethren explained in a recent amicus brief and in coalition letters to President Bush and Senator Dianne Feinstein, EPA regulation of CO2 from new cars and trucks under Section 202 of the Clean Air Act could compel the agency to regulate CO2 emissions from potentially hundreds of thousands of small- to mid-sized farms, factories, and buildings under the Act's Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) program--a result Congress clearly did not intend when, in 1970, it enacted Section 202, a provision dealing solely with emissions from new motor vehicles.
A Call to Truth, Prudence, and Protection of the Poor: An Evangelical Response to Global Warming
WARNING #2: This is not a one-off situation. This is NOT a "movie' that's Orwellian speak. This is a full-blown climate change ad campaign sponsored by numerous large corporations.
Next, the Hayhoe chapter is of concern in light of Gingrichs green wobbling this week .
We combine satellite data with ocean measurements to depths of 1,800 m, and show that between January 2001 and December 2010, Earth has been steadily accumulating energy at a rate of 0. 50 +/0.43 Watts per meter squared(uncertainties at the 90% confidence level). We conclude that energy storage is continuing to increase in the sub-surface ocean.
We think, ovviamentemente, Diana, destined not to be the queen of a new King Charles but to quickly become a symbol of life rich, glamorous and style, only to be transformed in a few years into an object of continual attacks on comic books and magazines , always hungry for compromising photos included gems like "Diana comes out of the gym" and "Diana put the skis", all ready to describe it as a social climber cold, manipulative and libertine (the ones who then vied with those who wept with more ' after the accident in Paris).
According to the supposition of anthropogenic global warming, the end result of those three components is the warming of the global sea surface temperature anomalies over the past 30 years with all of its yearly variations. See Figure 2. It assumes there is an anthropogenic component thats responsible for all of the long-term warming, and it assumes there is a volcanic aerosols component to explain the dips and rebounds caused by of the eruptions of El Chichon in 1982 and Mount Pinatubo in 1991. It also assumes that the global sea surface temperatures respond proportionally to El Nio and La Nia events, which explain the large year-to-year variations above and beyond the long-term warming trend caused by manmade greenhouse gases. That is, it assumes global sea surface temperatures will cool in response to La Nia events and warm in response to El Nio events and do so proportionally.
That was the powerful message CFACT spokesmen and I delivered last week in Dallas to a standing-room-only crowd of state legislators and other policy experts from across the nation.
If Back Radiation actually reached and heated the Earth as Trenberth shows, then Parabolic Mirror Solar Ovens would produce heating Day and Night!
According to The Associated Press, the U.S. and India have backed down a bit on their objections, while China continues to put up resistance.
The New Left and today's liberal progressives, then, interpret America's political history very differently from the way conservatives and moderate progressives do. They see the victory of Richard Nixon in 1968 and 1972 as catastrophic. As much as conservatives see Nixon as a liberal because of his imposition of wage and price controls and his failure to even seriously try to dismantle much of the Great Society, liberal progressives see his victory as a watershed, because he stood as an impediment to the rapid attainment of their goals. If Nixon's victory was catastrophic, Reagan's victory was epochal. Reagan and his heirs promised not just to stand in the way of achieving liberal progressives' deepest dreams; they stood pledged to question the very assumptions of the progressive project and roll them back if they could.
But before declaring victory, it is worth noting Richard Blacks expectation that governments will be pressing for different conclusions because money is at stake. The good news about the leaked document is that efforts to alter the text will be noticed. Based on Blacks report, it seems that the IPCC has at long last done the right thing on extreme events and climate change. It will be most interesting to see the reactions. -Roger Pielke Jr, 14 November 2011
One factor that is hard for Washington to influence is the market price of oil, which is set by global supply and demand. Strikes in oil-producing Venezuela and uncertainty surrounding Iraq increased the price per barrel of crude by 50 percent since Jan. 1. Unfortunately, episodes of instability in oil-producing regions are unavoidable, as are the resultant price spikes.
The Russian crew stayed aboard the trapped ship.
AUSTRALIAS $46 million Antarctic airstrip is melting, leaving the government scrambling to find a new air link to the frozen continent. The Wilkins runway ...
According to the klimamanifest site, the above video was inspired by comments Schellnhuber had made on German public television on May 27, 2013, where he once again warned of a planet warming by 4C by the end of the century.
The lawmakers accuse firms like ExxonMobil of working "to undermine mainstream scientific research" by donating to the think tanks. It all comes under a grand conspiracy theory dubbed #WebOfDenial.
The delayed oscillator mechanism of ENSO, Chapter 4.9, must also be considered when discussing the end of ENSO events.
"Anti-Lobbyist' Obama Administration Recruited Left-Wing Lobbyists to Sell Bogus "Green Jobs'
A relatively new product called FireIce smothers fires, by taking heat and oxygen away from combustible materials. Dropped directly onto a fire from airplanes, it penetrates through smoke, fire, and treetops down to burning timber and trees and brush in a fire's path. It can also be carried to blazes in standard fire and tanker trucks, or blended on location using dry FireIce powder and on-site water. Homeowners can brew up their own batches, adding water to the dry chemical, and use the concoction to coat their houses, shrubs, and other property protecting them against onrushing flames.
One of the favorite boogeyman arguments used in climate alarmism is that climate has been stable for thousands of years, and that our recent industrialized era emissions will result in climate tipping point. However, this study in the Proceeding of the National Academies of Science suggest that climate disruption caused people in the Central Andes to migrate to find a better climate over a thousand years ago.
CEI Expert Available to Comment: General Counsel Sam Kazman on the liberating effects of car ownership.
A new and broader climate deal is out of reach for now and instead nations need to focus on how to replace the ailing Kyoto Protocol before 2020, Britains minister of state for energy and climate change said on Monday. The view is recognition that agreement on a pact that commits all major greenhouse gas polluters to curbing the growth in planet-warming emissions is slipping further away, in part because of sluggish economic growth and a mounting debt crisis. Henry Foy and Matthias Williams, Reuters, 14 November 2011
Moreover, the purpose of the scare was fundraising for environmental activists. The head of Fenton subsequently acknowledged that the scare "was designed so that revenue would flow back to the NRDC from the public."
He said that all you can do is disable Java Plugin in the web browser and wait for the patches from Oracle.
The world is unlikely to agree to carbon pricing. It cannot succeed unless it is global but global carbon pricing is unlikely to get implemented, let alone sustained for the time required to deliver the projected benefits.
I have some doubts whether the dual AdS-like description of condensed matter physics and related problems may ever be considered an "ultimate reliable description". But string theory surely gives us a new perspectives from which one may look at various physical situations and Subir Sachdev is among those who are exploiting these new opportunities very often.
Top 10 Things You Didnt Know About Wind Power
Weather Bureau Blows Budget on New SuperComputers
Electricity provider Constellation Energy seeks permission to build a new nuclear reactor at Calvert Cliffs in Maryland.
Dr. Robinson is well known for the Oregon Petition Project, which says "there is no convincing scientific evidence" that humans are causing "catastrophic heating of the Earth's atmosphere" or disruption of its climate. It urges Congress to reject the Kyoto global warming agreement and has been signed by more than 32,000 Americans with university degrees in physical sciences (including yours truly and over 9,000 PhDs).
Jim Hansen calls Cap and Trade the "Temple of Doom"
Under some conditions, drilling wells in offshore waters can reduce the amount of oil released from natural seeps by reducing the pressure in the oil traps.
This comes at the heels of last months reports from Britain where long-range forecasters warned of below average temperatures from October through February, along with lots of whites stuff, which just a few years ago was said would be rare and exciting in the future because of global warming.
Here are two web references to support the above evidence of global cooling in North America: http://wattsupwiththat.com and http://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs .
In North Redfield, when it finally stopped at around 9:45 Friday morning, Carol Yerdon had measured 72 inches (185 cm) of snow that had fallen out of the sky for an impressive snow base of 41 inches.
The new coal power standards proposed by the previous Labor government and supported by the Coalition would have capped emissions from new coal-fired power plants at 0.8 tonnes of carbon dioxide for every megawatt hour of electricity generated. They would also have required new plants to be ready to install clean coal technology if it became viable.
Korner, C. 2003. Alpine Plant Life: Functional Plant Ecology of High Mountain Ecosystems . Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany.
The data in this paper suggest that future increases in the air's CO 2 concentration will enhance photosynthesis and biomass production in many C 4 grass species, regardless of their photosynthetic sub-type. In addition, atmospheric CO 2 enrichment should enhance C 4 grass water-use efficiency, perhaps allowing C 4 grasses to expand their ranges into more arid habitats where their survival is currently limited by insufficient soil moisture availability.
Our newfound ability to extract hydrocarbons from shale has also been a net win in the effort to cut carbon dioxide emissions. Again, the numbers tell the tale. In August, U.S. natural gas production hit nearly 91 billion cubic feet per day. That's an increase of about 27 billion cubic feet per day since August 2006. That increase is roughly equal to the combined gas output of three OPEC members: Algeria, Iran and Venezuela.
Putting it all of the above togetherand throwing in some other minor damages estimates for good measure and greater shock value (e.g., number of people run over by trains transporting coal, excess mental retardation from mercury emissions, etc.)Epstein et al. arrive at low, best estimate, and high values for the annul size of the negative externalities in the U.S. from coal-fired electricity production. They are $175 billion, $345 billion, and $523 billion, respectively.
And so it was in Soviet Russia. The lines to newspaper kiosks sometimes crowds around the block that formed at six in the morning, with each daily run often sold out in two hours and the skyrocketing subscriptions to the leading liberal newspapers and magazines testify to the devastating power of the most celebrated essayists of glasnost, or in Samuel Johnson's phrase, the "teachers of truth": the economist Nikolai Shmelyov; the political philosophers Igor Klyamkin and Alexander Tsypko; brilliant essayists like Vasily Selyunin, Yuri Chernichenko, Igor Vinogradov, and Ales Adamovich; the journalists Yegor Yakovlev, Len Karpinsky, Fedor Burlatsky, and at least two dozen more.
Executive Director Craig Rucker is an expert writing about the UN Conference on Climate Change for the National Journal's Copenhagen Insider.
The NIPCC also destroys the false IPCC claims that computer models prove recent global warming is due to human CO2 emissions, and can forecast future global temperatures, climates and events. In reality, the models greatly exaggerate climate sensitivity to carbon dioxide levels; assume all warming since the industrial revolution began are due to human carbon dioxide; input data contaminated by urban heat island effects; and rely on simplistic configurations of vital drivers of Earths climate system (or simply ignore them), such as solar variations, cosmic ray fluxes, winds, clouds, precipitation, volcanoes, ocean currents and recurrent phenomena like the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (El Nino and La Nina).
EPA's new automobile mileage standards alone will result in thousands of additional serious injuries and deaths every year, as cars are further downsized to meet its arbitrary 54.5 mpg requirements. Its anti-coal and anti-fracking rules will severely impact electricity generation, reliability and prices; factory, office and hospital operations and budgets; American industries' competitiveness in global markets; employment, hiring and layoffs; and the well-being of families and entire communities. Especially for areas that depend on mining and manufacturing and the 26 states where coal-based power generation keeps electricity rates at half of what they are in states with the least coal use and toughest renewable energy mandates (6-9 cents versus 13-17 cents per kilowatt hour) it will be all pain, for no gain.
All this is little more than blatant scare mongering, and FOE was calling on its members and others who received its email to "Call on President Obama to ensure that all Americans are protected from climate disasters."
We dont know if its weather or climate. But we have seen a trend in the ice conditions in the last four or five years, said Phil Jenkins, a spokesman for the Department of Fisheries and Oceans. The pups cant swim for very long. They need stable ice. If the ice deteriorates underneath them, they drown.
Meanwhile, Einstein worked under the strictest security to develop the refining methods and the first sustained nuclear reaction using Uranium at the University of Chicago. His correspondence with the Robert Oppenheimer who headed actual weapons team are still classified. It is doubtless that Einstein had many involvements which prohibited his free discussion of the Big Bang.
200-300% ofnormalprecipitationearns Georgia the exceptionaldrought prize from the climate buffoons in Washington.
Gaertner also maintains in his book that certain activists appear to care more about imposing their solutions to hypothetical environmental threats, such as global warming, than the very real problems being fostered through implementation of their agenda (such as increased energy and food prices on the poor). Such approaches undertaken by nihilists ultimately deteriorate the conditions for innovation, economic growth and new technologies which are important for modern society to advance.
Today's conventional wisdom holds that the political organs of government must correct the fundamental design mistakes that they previously created. That conclusion rests on the belief that the United States Constitution places no strong constraint on Congress or the states. That result is surely correct under the low "rational basis" standard, entrenched by the New Deal revolution of 1937, and currently used to review to legislation on complex forms of economic regulation. The underlying attitude was that the courts should not act as a super-legislature on economic matters properly confined to the legislative and executive branches. Thus the major constitutional transformationthe word "achievement" is inappropriategot courts into the business of deciding which forms of regulation advanced genuine interests in health and safety and which were forms intended to upset the competitive balance among firms.
"And if they continue with and expand President Obama's climate agenda, we'll negative growth," said Ebell.
Arctic sea ice may be more resilient than previously thought, according to new research. Satellite data reported in a new paper shows that sea ice volumes in the spring months have been stable over the four years from 2010 to 2014 and that Autumn sea ice volumes in 2013 and 2014 were significantly up on prior years. -- Reporting Climate Science, 20 July 2015
Aside from the ludicrous hyperbole, the choice of example is an incidence of the Inigo Montoya effect ("You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means"). Dunkirk was actually an example of government knowing when it couldn't cope. The evacuation of the Allied forces from Northern France was only achieved by private owners taking a fleet of 700 'little ships' including yachts and dinghies across the English Channel. Without that private, voluntary action the Allies would have been doomed. The miracle of Dunkirk was NOT achieved by politicians, but by the resolve of individuals.
In contrast, a doubling of CO2, which is supposed to occur late in the next century, has a radiative forcing about one percent of normal. Now there are different kinds of radiant forcings. This was turning the sun off. This cooling effect due to Pinotuba was basically shading the sunlight. Increasing concentrations of CO2 don't affect that. They affect the other radiation which is the earth's cooling radiation, the infrared radiation that escapes out to space and balances all of the incoming solar. Now climate models tend to react the same way with whichever kind of forcing is used. They can turn up the sun by a percent. And they can turn up the trapping of infrared radiation by a percent. And the model acts the same. But I personally -- and some other scientists don't believe that -- because the way solar energy and infrared energy are transferred in the atmosphere are very, very different.
Speaking of elections, Ontario Wind Turbines Slice Liberal Politicians
More immediately, the theme of close cooperation between Israeli and Palestinian security officials is echoed by senior figures on both sides. United by a common enemy (i.e., Hamas), the two longtime adversaries appear to be building a de facto alliance even before the old epithets go out of style. My military intelligence source expressed concern that the failure to reach agreement with moderate Palestinians on a future state could bring vital Israeli facilities within range of hostile fire: "We are very close to a Palestinian state, so we cannot fail again. If we get two rockets every day at Ben Gurion, we are done."
We already know that stronger tornadoes were more common in the period upto the mid 1970s, but Roy comes up with the reasons why this should be so.
Will this create a groundswell of new support from American voters?: Obama's climate swindle wins coveted endorsement from Fidel Castro HAVANA Barack Obama's call for action on climate change and his admission that rich nations have a particular responsibility to lead has received strong praise from an unusual source U.S. nemesis Fidel Castro. The former Cuban leader on Wednesday called the American president's speech at the United Nations "brave" and said no other American head of state would have had the courage to make similar remarks.