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Unfortunately, the President and Congress are actively seeking to pass a major new tax burden - this time on energy use.
Yet the number of folks acting that way just seems wrong. There is an overall artificial feeling to the whole thing. Curious. Then again, with about 1/3 the population on drugs of one kind or another, who knows how drugged up these folks were on anti-depressant feel good pills.
Note how the number of melting days in the area of the Wilkins ice shelf has decreased by -0.5 days per decade between 1987 and 2008.
Mr. FOIA had previously released two batches of 5,000 files each in 2009 and 2011. This enormous third batch went to a network of friends for decoding, sorting and publication.
Utterly focused on radiation, the infant science of climatology gave scant consideration to the crucial interplay of that double intense dose of solar energy on the sunny side of our spinning planet. That intense dose of energy in a focused area was the supercharging fuel for a dynamo that did its work by latent heat. Indeed, while solar radiation may be the origin of all incoming energy, once it enters our gaseous wet planet it is spun convectively about the vortex of Hadley Cells and those blue oceans and albedo white clouds begin to interplay in a constant cycle of evaporation and condensation.
The heavy handed actions taken against ?Tallbloke? and others may be attempts to intimidate people who want to lift the curtain that hides the Wizards of Climate Science from Dorothy and Toto.
Pen Hadow's scientific expedition disintegrating
Clive Crook may be a warmist, but is honest enough to describe whitewash when he sees it:
More on that publication, and how Ive caught the Met Office in a lie, coming soon.
In a recent experiment in the Mediterranean, reported in Nature Climate Change, corals and mollusks were transplanted to lower pH sites, where they proved ???able to calcify and grow at even faster than normal rates when exposed to the high levels projected for the next 300 years.?? In any case, freshwater mussels thrive in Scottish rivers, where the pH is as low as five.
Good morning, my name is Marlo Lewis. As Vice President for Policy and Coalitions of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, I welcome your invitation to discuss climate change policy. CEI is a public interest group established in 1984 with a current staff of 35 and an annual budget of about $2.5 million. Located in Washington, D.C., CEI works to educate and inform policy makers, journalists, and other opinion leaders on market-based alternatives to government programs and regulations. CEI also engages in public interest litigation to protect property rights and economic liberty. CEI is supported by the voluntary contributions of foundations, corporations and individuals. We accept no grants from any government agency, nor do we accept grants from any other party that would compromise the principled positions we espouse.
Snow will begin late this morning and intensify this afternoon. The amount of snow that accumulates will depend greatly on the track of this system. The rain-snow boundary is expected to be very near Cambridge Bay with temperatures near zero degrees. Currently, snow is expected to become mixed with rain this afternoon and change back to snow later this evening. Total amounts of 10 to 15 centimetres (3.9 to 5.9) are expected by Sunday morning. A slight change in the track of the system could result in more snow or more rain.
This is complete nonsense. Most of the old ice was lost during the winters from 1988 to 1996, and was driven by strong winds pushing the ice out into the North Atlantic.
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A successful energy agenda would unleash energy enterprise. Such an agenda would not involve government central planning, quotas, subsidies, or other interference with the effective operation of a free market in energy. Such an agenda would help provide opportunity for all and favoritism to none.
From the WUWT sea ice page , Antarctic Sea Ice is more than 2 standard deviations above normal:
The second warming shift began in 1975 and rose at quite a constant rate until 1998, a strong Pacific Ocean El Nio yearalthough this later warming is reported only by surface thermometers, not satellites, and is legitimately disputed by some. (Theres some background on this in my June 18 column .)
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The public is susceptible to scare tactics: Silent Spring, byRachel Carson, published in September of 1962, helped to start the environmental movement. A marine biologist, Carson documented the detrimental effects of pesticides on the environment, which led to the banning of DDT here in the U.S. and millions of deathsin malaria-prone countries.
Natural gas contains relatively more hydrogen and less carbon; that's why greens like it more than other fossil fuels. Over half of the heat from a methane-gas flame comes from the hydrogen. About 80% of the heat in coal comes from the carbon. Oil is in the middle.
Comparing the regulation's "benefits" to its substantial costs makes Rep. Stivers' vote look reasonable and not exactly a poisonous threat to children.
Whatever the aims of the climate-change crowd, it's obvious that they will not tolerate dissent. The academics who wrote the president insist that "an overwhelming majority of climate scientists are convinced about the potentially serious adverse effects of human-induced climate change on human health, agriculture, and biodiversity."
Climate adaptation careers are heating up. Insider tips on the skills needed:
Consider that my post wouldnt be sitting here using Eric Steigs math with Steig et. al. data and 6 of 9 graphs showing a flat or negative Antarctic temperature trend, if they had just shown me the code and data as I politely requested.
From Warren Pearces posting of Ben Piles excellent article at Making Science Public
Snow covered the streets of Tripoli and Duahyaha, Libya, Wednesday, December 31, 2014, also the western mountain areas and Tarhuna, Misrata and Zlitan.
"Newt Gingrich is arrogant enough to believe that he doesn't have to play by the same rules as everyone else," Morano said, predicting it would hurt him in the primaries. "I can't think of any Republican who hasn't addressed this in a way that is satisfactory to the Republican base."
Prediction That Global Warming Causes More Storms Fails Empirical Testing IPCC Climate Models Wrong
The end of the last ice age was not triggered by rising CO2 levels, it was triggered by the Milankovich cycle. It nothing to do with humans back then, and it has nothing to do with humans now.
The program awards transferable emission credits to companies that lower their emissions below the allowed limits. These credits can then be sold to other companies whose emissions exceed the limits. Whitman, who now heads the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, is now pushing a national level version of the plan.
Well, it worries me too. Politically, however, there may be a silver lining in this dark cloud. Concerning which, I posted the following comment on Keith's blog.
The study was supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF), and performed in part through the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis at the University of California at Santa Barbara.
Indeed, the US Fish & Wildlife Service reported earlier this year that "the number of polar bears observed in 2012 was high relative to similar surveys conducted over the past decade."
Sales: We know that, say, if you look back over the past 50 years there??s clear evidence of global warming. You know, the figures go like that. But there were figured released I think late last year that showed that there??d been a plateau for about the past 15 or so years , you know, so it was flatter. So if there??s been a plateau in recent years, how come this summer??s extreme weather events are due to climate change? Wouldn??t you have been seeing those same sorts of events all the way back those 15 years?
Well, you have to admit that they've tried hard. Labor, that is. In April 2007 Kevin Rudd, before his election as prime minister, appointed distinguished social scientist Ross Garnaut to advise the party on global warming. A strange decision, that: "Here's a scientific problem so let's appoint an economist to give us policy advice."
Conversely, rationally discussing the geological relationship between Fire and Ice in the context of the Plate Climatology Theory is far more thought provoking, avoids needless confrontation, and more importantly, increases the chances of discovering the truth about natural climate variations.
The Wikipedia situation is so bad the Scottish Parent-Teacher Council (SPTC) is citing Wikipedia in particular as it demands special training for students so they can distinguish between reality and falsehoods on the Internet.
Also last week, TWTW linked to Steve McIntyres simple model of temperatures, which out performs the global climate models in temperature forecasts. Christopher Essex correctly noted that the global climate models can be scientifically useful because they include a number of other variables. As always, TWTW appreciates such amplifications and corrections.
Finally, an additional complication is discussed: future ENSOprojections all rely on the standardized emissions scenarios from the IPCC. Projections of future emissions reductions may be overly optimistic, perhaps requiring attention to a wider range of CO2 changes for accurate ENSO impacts studies.
Meanwhile, environmental activists, western powers and UN agencies dictate what issues are important and use them to keep us poor and deprived: Manmade climate change, no GMO foods, no DDT to prevent malaria, using wind and solar power and never building coal, natural gas, or nuclear power plants. This is a criminal trick that denies us our basic rights to affordable energy, jobs, and modern living standards.
Yesterday I published a study that reviews EPA's performance for more than 1,000 Clean Air Act deadlines. Here's the big takeaway: the agency missed 84 percent of its date-certain duties by an average of 4.3 years.
Wayne Crews' op-ed in Big Government
people, like monkeys, can be angels of generosity when all eyes are
In addition to the fact that "production of Bacillus thuringiensis crystal endotoxin proteins in a crop plant limits specific herbivorous insect attack without the need for chemical treatments," to quote the seven scientists, "elevated CO 2 conditions could modify herbivore-induced defenses at the vegetative stage, and enhance indirect defense in the future." And, of course, the increasing CO 2 content of the air would help to thwart the growth-reducing effects of ozone pollution at one and the same time. Reviewed 11 February 2009
The climate alarmists, says Carlin, have now been making their apocalyptic predictions for almost thirty years and it is now possible to compare their predictions with actual physical observations. Suffice to say all the predictions of a significantly higher temperaturethe warminghave been wrong.??
By Elana Schor, Politico, Aug 14, 2015
As for Gore and the U.N.'s scientific claims, it has been quite a joy to watch the entire man-made global warming fear movement disintegrate before our eyes. A movement that had the divisive Gore as its face was bound to fail. A movement that utilized the scandal-ridden U.N. which is massively distrusted by the American people as the repository of science was doomed to fail. Gore is now reduced to pointing to every storm, flood, hurricane or tornado as proof of man-made global warming.
Workers' compensation laws rely on a "no fault" rule that provides benefits regardless of who is responsible for a workplace injury. There are exceptions, however, for employees who hurt themselves due to reckless behavior or drug or alcohol abuse. In addition, employees who cause self-inflicted injuries or injure themselves while off-duty or while engaged in a criminal act usually do not qualify for benefits.
The two ads - worth $2,070 - and about $4,000 in travel costs to the event in Montreal for an Alberta-based communications consultant (earning $100 an hour)... A consultant received $100 an hour for his work, an ad was bought for $2,000 (compare with the stolen $300,000,000 for Gore's own ads full of lies). What a crime! Note that the climate skeptics in the world produce something like $50 trillion every year. And this story is sold as something wrong by the people who are behind the flattening of villages in Uganda and who are earning $100 million per fat pig. This level of chutzpah is just incredible. Please, execute him already, whether the judicial details will be quite kosher or not: enough is enough.
The measure of good science is neither the politics of the scientist nor the people with whom the scientist associates. It is the immersion of hypotheses into the acid of truth. That's the hard way to do it, but it's the only way that works.
Introducing a variable e = t dyn / t rad . There are several different regimes for e:
1. First principles tell us never to accept that all of the science is in on any proposition; always remain open to the relevance of new research.
Someone in power in India does not like wind turbines.
Despite global warming during the 20th century the number of tropical cyclones annually making landfall in the Philippines did not experience any net change. All variability was merely oscillatory activity around a mean trend of zero slope
Bonus: Dozens of blog articles about dozens of recent scientific papers that disagree with the so-called "consensus". A large portion of physicists in Russia, especially solar physicists, have reached a "scientific consensus" - as others would call it - that the Earth will enter a period of global cooling in a couple of years and the temperatures will drop to the minimum sometime in the middle of this century. Bonus: 2007 was the coldest year of the 21st century so far If they're right, a period of deep freeze will start around 2055-2060 and last for 50 years or so. These predictions are based on a detailed analysis of internal dynamics of the Sun. 2007 is the International Heliophysical Year so you're not supposed to dismiss this science without reading it. Unfortunately, I cannot verify all these statements.
The missing ingredient is wind shear, specifically an increase in wind speed with height, and a change in wind direction with height.
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When it gets cold, you do get more drought. One can only hope this is a one off or the world will become a very hungry place.
But any kind of trading assumes a price that makes any risk involved worthwhile. And although the EPA assumes a price of $15 per ton during the early years of the program, the market doesn??t support that price, at least not today. The limited experience gleaned from the small volume of trading that??s taken place so far, such as what the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative has sponsored, certainly doesn??t come even close ??? $3 a ton last spring.
THE Australian Bureau of Meteorology and the Australian National University will spend $30 million on two new supercomputers that will more accurately predict cyclones, tsunamis and the effects of climate change. Read more here .
The statement that Nature doesn't give a damn about the random distribution of some papers written by a particular group of humans should be obvious and understandable. But I want to make one more related point. Even if the LHC found and confirmed one of the new sub-TeV models physics, it wouldn't mean that Nature would join the hep-ph consensus. Why? Because there's simply no consensus among the models on the hep-ph arXiv to start with. The models are inequivalent so they disagree with each other.
As the reconstruction of the climates development in the past by proxy data shows, theres a series of temperature cycles that appear to be unknown, or ignored by many climate scientists. Among these are the larger climate cycles of 150 million to 180 million years (see Part 1 and Part 2 ), but also the shorter and for us the more important following cycles:
It should be remembered that GISS use this data to create the GISTEMP surface temperature anomalies. In Chart 7 I have amended Chart 1 to include Southern Hemisphere annual mean data on the same basis as the raw data and GISS H.
creation in 2004, to devise a new method of turning the financial screws on other countries. The
Primarily because they expect to get free energy technology transfers, and billions of dollars a year in climate mitigation, adaptation and reparation money from Western nations that they blame (and which blame themselves) for the dangerous climate change, rising seas and extreme weather that they claim are unprecedented and due to carbon dioxide emissions during the 150 years since the Industrial Revolution began. These FRCs (Formerly Rich Countries) have implemented low-carbon energy policies and penalties that have strangled their economies, dramatically increased energy prices and killed millions of jobs. But now poor developing countries demand that they also transfer $100 billion per year, for decades (with most of that probably going to their governing elites Swiss banks accounts).
In spite of the huge increase in the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere the predicted temperature rise did not materialize so we need to ask what is wrong with Climate Science given that it claimed that the Consensus is supported by 97% of scientists and The Debate is Over. In my opinion the debate is indeed over because the cause of CAGW (Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming) is dead and buried. What we need now is a better understanding of the effects of rising levels of CO2 in the atmosphere given that the Consensus theory failed so dismally.
14 W. H. Soon, E. S. Posmentier, and S. L. Baliunas, Inference of solar irradiance variability from terrestrial temperature changes, 1880-1993: An astrophysical application of the sun-climate connection, Astrophysical Journal 472, 891 (1996). Although change in the sun?s brightness is the simplest proposed mechanism for affecting terrestrial global temperature, the sun?s output comes in many wavelengths; it also emits energetic particles. Both the sun?s light and particles vary in time, space, and frequency. Components of the earth?s climate system may respond to different aspects of the sun?s diverse energy outflows.
The problem with consensus some thoughts on how focusing on agreement leads to more polarization on #climatechange
Obama: "And over the last four years, our emissions of the dangerous carbon pollution that threatens our planet have actually fallen. But for the sake of our children and our future, we must do more to combat climate change."
The Maldives Sea Level Curve of the last 500 years and the proposed best estimate of possible sea level changes by year 2100 This curve is a detail (without error bars, anchor points and curved breaking points) from the one presented by Mrner,(2007). Sea level has been stable for the last 30 years. Future changes in the next century are by no means alarming; at the most it would imply a return to the pre-1970 situation with an about 20 cm higher sea level as was the case from 1790 to 1970. These are the observational facts and the consequences to face for the future: i.e. no real problems and certainly no reason for any alarm and SOS message.
I was quite amazed by the coal ex-mines. I had thought that a) an open-pit coal mine would leave a horrible long-term scar and b) that there wasnt much you could do with the land after mining. I was totally incorrect on both counts.
"A Democratic senator is preparing to introduce legislation that aims to end the golden era of tax-free Internet shopping. "
Sixty four cosponsors from twenty three different countries signed on to Heartland's Fourth International Conference on Climate Change including Americans for Prosperity, Ayn Rand Center for Individual Rights, Freedom Works, Illinois Policy Institute, JunkScience.com, George C. Marshall Institute, National Center for Public Policy Research, and the Science and Public Policy Institute.
There has been warming at the edge of the continent including where Wilkins Ice Sheet recently collapsed. The collapse could be due to global warming , oceanic volcanoes , and/or from internal stresses associated with the accumulation of ice in the bay.
The British Met Office owns Britains most powerful super computer. It can make 1,000 billion calculations every second while consuming more electricity than a small town. The Met claimed that it will enable the Met Office to deliver more accurate forecasts, from hours to a century ahead. Some 400 climate high priests attend this electronic monster. But it has totally failed to forecast several frigid European winters because the model makers believe their own story and have programmed the models with a global warming bias. They assume without proof or evidence that carbon dioxide controls global temperature.
According to John Eick, director of ALEC's Energy, Environment and Agriculture Task Force, "The workshop provided our legislative members with much needed facts, data, and historical anecdotes regarding these key policy areas. Feedback from our members since the workshop has been nothing but positive, and the panelists should all be congratulated for a job extremely well done."
Writing in Ottawa's Hill Times (Feb. 23), Richard S. Lindzen, Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology at MIT, summarizes the current state of global warming science and cautions against incorrect interpretations of what reviews such as that from the National Academy of Sciences (2001) were trying to do.
Read here . (h/t Tom Nelson ) Enron alumni Jim Rogers is another "green" cap and trade lover who seems committed to destroying local environments for the sake of making a profit. If companies like Duke, and wealthy investors like Gore and Soros have their way, the world will be a barren wasteland because of the deranged profit incentive of anti-CO2 policies.
Environmentalists may suggest, as they do in the Sierra Club publication, that "acknowledging the earth's sacredness," providing a "holy and awesome restoration of Nature herself," and having a "reverence for trees" are the only things that "can serve as a worldview." But that is not going to feed hungry mouths or provide a better life for the millions who must depend on the earth's natural resources for their sustenance.
For example, northern Arizona where I live has a dry season and a wet season. In June when the humidity is very low the temperature is very high. In July when the Monsoons come the humidity goes up sharply. Not only does this result in a marked drop in daily mean temperatures, it also causes the countryside to turn greena welcome climate change indeed!
The Light Brigade will assemble at 11:30 AM near the Smithsonian exit to the D.C. Metro at the Mall side of the exit. The Brigade can be reached at 949-421-8867 for anyone seeking to meet up with it during the event or seeking comment. The Light Brigade is a joint project of CIP and CFACT, the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow.
Climatologist Dr. Pielke Sr. dismisses warming causes cold claims: "They continue to miss the significance that it is the regional circulations that matter, not a global average anomaly' "Until and unless they can skillfully predict observationally documented CHANGES in the statistics (probabilities) of the different major circulation patterns, their explanations are necessarily flawed'