Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
Columnist Tim Carney notes that BP, responsible for the massive oil spill, is "a close friend of big government whenever it serves the company's bottom line." It lobbied for President Obama's $800 billion stimulus package, the "cap-and-trade" global-warming bills backed by Obama, and "the Wall Street bailout" that Obama voted for. "BP has more Democratic lobbyists than Republicans." Obama is the biggest recipient of campaign cash from BP executives.
"The Earth is not "unusually" warm. It is the application of the predictive equation that is faulty. The ability of common substances to store heat makes a mockery of blackbody estimates. The belief that radiating trace gases explain why earth's surface temperature deviates from a simple mathematical formula is based on deeply erroneous assumptions about theoretical vs. real bodies."
Antarctica set a new record for ice extent in 2014, and continues to set records for how much ice covers the oceans surrounding this southern hemisphere continent as 2015 progresses.
Sadly for the US, most experts dont expect a new reactor to be operating there before late 2016 or early 2017. Many experts see the future of nuclear power in smaller, modular reactors being developed around the world. Unfortunately, the US Department of Energy continues to drag its feet on certifying new reactor designs, sending American nuclear entrepreneurs offshore to China and elsewhere. If the Obama administration is really serious about green energy and getting the US off of fossil fuels, they need to clear the bureaucratic logjam that is keeping the nuclear renaissance from spreading to America.
Power infrastructure provider Alstom estimated that across Asia close to half of the 600 gigawatt of new power generators to be built over the next five years will be coal-fired, Giles Dickson, a vice president at the company said.
Now be clear here, the greenhouse effect is premised upon a -18C solar input being amplified to +15 degrees C by the atmosphere trapping or back-radiating heat. None of this is correct because 1) the solar input is not -18 degrees C, 2) reality doesnt function like this in any case heat cant amplify its own temperature.
Mark Pollock on September 1, 2008 at 6:33 am
Robock Seeks Audience with Christie, Invited to Debate Global Warming
Attachment1.pdf is, as already noted, simply a statement of the policy of PNAS. The actual letter concerning our submission is Attachment2.pdf. This attachment begins with what we regard as a libelous description of our choice of reviewers. Will Happer, though a physicist, was in charge of research at DOE including pioneering climate research. Moreover, he has, in fact, published professionally on atmospheric turbulence. He is also a member of the NAS. M.-D. Chou and I have not collaborated in over 5 years, and Chou had absolutely nothing to do with the present manuscript. There then followed a list of other reviewers that we felt were all inappropriate.
Alarm, Alarm. Lets increase the growth of data. Or, to speak like Honecker (leader of former communist regime East Germany): Always higher, never lower! And if its not possible to increase the current data, then lets just reduce the data of the past. Just like some climate scientists also want to reduce the temperature of the hottest year since instrumental measurements began, namely 1998, just so that this decade can once again appear to be on the rise. Or just like Michael Mann tried with his infamous hockey stick but failed.
?Over 2.5 billion people live on less than $2 a day.?
Glenda Kwek, The Sydney Morning Herald, 12 August 2010
In fact, polar bears have likely survived past ice-free periods in the Arctic. Scientists recently found there's no evidence of marine life extinctions in the Arctic in the past 1.5 million years, despite the Arctic going through periods of prolonged periods with no summer ice cover.
Can anybody see any 100 year events in the last 5 years? Or any increase in extreme rainfall patterns? Good, because I cant either.
In fact, the temperature of planet today is almost the same as it was when satellites first started measuring it in 1979. No one under the age of 32 has experienced global warming. Some of us predate that and remember the heavy frosts of the nineteen seventies. Those frosts are returning, and worse. Solar activity is weakening, and will remain weak for another 22 years.
Never too early to worry about water? :: Peter Foster ...it's a sign of the grim times for our planet when pre-schoolers are worrying about something as basic as water, a commodity which my generation never even thought about at his age. When I look at my kids like my son and wonder what kind of place the world will be when they are my age - about 2050 - I find myself wondering if me and my family shouldn't just open the balcony doors of my 16th floor apartment and do the planet a favour by jumping out.
For the scenario with lower -than-typically-assumed increases in CO 2 emissions and air temperature, the NEP of the globe increased from a positive (carbon-sequestering) value of 0.8 Pg C yr -1 in 1990 to 1.3 Pg C yr -1 in 2100, for a rate increase of 62% over the 110-year period. For typically -assumed increases in CO 2 and temperature, corresponding NEP values were 0.8 and 2.6 Pg C yr -1 , yielding a rate increase of 225%. And for higher -than-typically-assumed increases in CO 2 and temperature, NEP values of 0.8 and 3.4 Pg C yr -1 were obtained, for a rate increase of 325%. What it means
These papers all report anomalously increased OLR associated with tropical surface warming. Models, by contrast, fail to show such an increase. Presumably that is why it is referred to as anomalous. One can (though the authors dont) infer a negative feedback factor from the observations, and it is at the high end of what LCH estimate. Moreover, the anomaly is associated with reduced upper level cirrus. However, the same papers insist that what they see is not the Iris Effect, but rather the result of a change in the large scale circulation. However, there is something seriously wrong with this attribution.
Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, said before the Copenhagen summit in 2009 that we have 50 days to save the world. Copenhagen was of course a complete flop and yet we are all still here, although his government is no longer with us. Similar predictions of impending doom have come and gone.
Will reduced solar activity counteract global warming in the coming decades? That is what outgoing Germanelectric utility executive Fritz Vahrenholt claims in a new book.In an interview with SPIEGEL, hearguesthat the official United Nations forecasts on the severity of climate change are overstated and supported by weak science.
And that lead commenter Caz to make the discovery of the photo:
"Net neutrality proposals are driving a wedge between service providers like AT&T; and content providers like Google. Strange, is it not? Their interests are actually closely aligned. If AT&T; upgrades its network, Google benefits from the increased bandwidth. If Google improves its products, AT&T; benefits from increased demand for broadband. Net neutrality proposals give companies the incentive to seek rents at each other's expense when they could be benefitting from each other's innovations instead. This must be music to the ears of lobbyists, but how sad for consumers."
>A Discontinuity In 1945 Or A Missing ENSO Event?
The meeting hopes to restore credibility to the talks after the last summit in Copenhagen a year ago, which failed to agree on any binding measures to rein in emissions of global-warming gases. A nonbinding political document, the Copenhagen Accord, outlined important compromises among key players, including the United States and China, but its adoption was blocked by a handful of dissident nations.
A funny thing happened this week. Humanity did a low-orbit bypass of a totalitarian world government, and pulled away, but only a few noticed the near miss.
SUV owners have perfectly good reasons for their vehicle choices. Even Consumer Reports praises their "roomy interiors, commanding view of the road, and go-anywhere ability." The fact that NHTSA has trained its sights on SUVs hasn't kept its administrator, Ricardo Martinez, out of one. He puts his family in a Ford Explorer, though he declares that he bought it for safety, to distinguish himself from "some teenager" trying "to be cool." Too bad his regulatory approach doesn't do much for other people's safety.
Here is a discussion about how to stop common core, from the heartland, at the grass roots, Ms. Crossin.
As Webster et al . describe it, "the interval in our record from AD 750 to 1150 was the most prolonged dry phase in our 3300-year record," which period of time can be seen from the Interactive Map and Time Domain Plot of our Medieval Warm Period (MWP) Project to correspond well with the MWP's mean time of occurrence around the globe, which period, in their words, "coincided with the collapse of the Maya civilization." More specifically, they say their data depict "a series of droughts centered at about AD 780, 910, 1074, and 1139," with "successive droughts increasing in severity." What it means
'24' Executive Producer Howard Gordon Turns Green
What follows is a response by John Christy, who has been producing these datasets with me for the last 20 years: (Roy W. Spencer)
Neither Ms Wheeler, and worse, nor Ms Morris appear to have been curious enough to verify what they were writing about, and especially concerning such a boggling example. Please publish a correction as soon and as prominently as possible, otherwise your readers will find themselves severely mislead by a demonstrated falsehood.
Prof Curry said: I suspect that the portion of the decline in the sea ice attributable to natural variability could be even larger than half.
Fracking fluids are 99.5% water and sand, combined with chemicals that keep sand particles suspended in the liquid, fight bacterial growth, and improve gas flow and production. Most additives used today are vegetable oils and common, biodegradable chemicals found in cheese, beer, canned fish, dairy desserts, shampoo, and other food and cosmetic products. Steadily improving technologies, techniques and regulations will further reduce environmental risks.
2. But isn't global warming threatening public health by causing a resurgence of diseases like malaria?
As illustrated in the Evans et al graph below, coastal upwelling can oversaturate the surface waters to 1000 matm, 2.5 times above atmospheric pCO 2 (represented by dashed horizontal line). Within weeks the biological response sequesters and exports that carbon so that concentrations of surface water CO 2 fall as low as 200 matm; a concentration that would still be under-saturated relative to the Little Ice Ages atmosphere. Relative to these rapid seasonal changes in pH, fears that marine organisms cannot adapt quickly enough to the relatively slower changes wrought by anthropogenic CO 2 seem overblown.
All of this snow has propelled southeast Michigan into the top of the seasonal snowfall records. ???In fact, this winter puts 6 of the last 14 years into the top 20 snowiest winters on record .??
This year is set to be the coolest since 2000, according to a preliminary estimate of global average temperature that is due to be released next week by the Met Office. The global average for 2008 should come in close to 14.3C, which is 0.14C below the average temperature for 2001-07.
The Yen has largely gone flat, though with a slight residual drop. The general message here is that the dollar is rising, the Euro is having issues (but we already knew that) and the precious metals are not cutting it. It looks like folks are moving into the US dollar. Perhaps out of European banks?
After the fourth year of atmospheric CO 2 enrichment, a detailed analysis indicated that elevated CO 2 reduced needle stomatal density by an average of 7.4%. In contrast, elevated CO 2 increased needle thickness, mesophyll tissue area, and total cross-sectional area by averages by 6.4, 5.7, and 10.4%, respectively. In addition, atmospheric CO 2 enrichment increased the average relative area occupied by phloem cells by 4.4%.
So far, it would appear that the impact of whatever global warming may have occurred over the past few decades -- even in the supposedly more sensitive higher latitudes of the planet -- has been both mild and mixed. Reviewed 18 November 2009
Australias antarctic runway melting | Northern Midlands News
I looked at St-Onge and repeated my frequent prediction that Keystone would not be approved under the Obama Administration. I stated: "We know that Obama doesn't care about Republicans. We know he doesn't care about the oil-and-gas industry. We may even question whether or not he cares about America. But he does care about his baseand, of his base, there are only two groups who care about the Keystone pipeline." I asked the audience who those two groups were. They rightly asserted: "environmentalists" and "unions."
Proponents of carbon pricing argue it is the least cost way to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Their argument is based on assumptions that are appropriate for a theoretical exercise but unlikely to be achieved in practice, let alone sustained for the time the policies would need to operate (i.e. centuries). Significantly, little research has been done to investigate the probability that carbon pricing can be implemented and deliver the projected benefits in the real world.
I'm in Whitefish, Montana, this week, where hundreds of trees are just a few inches in diameter, packed in clusters of a half dozen or more, inches from one another perfect kindling for vicious wildfires. Over time, most will get crowded out and die, leaving just a few hardy specimens to grow into hefty 50- to 100-foot beauties assuming they are not engulfed in a super-heated inferno first.
One recent survey suggested that 53 per cent of executives had not even heard of the CRC and did not know whether their firm was affected.
Indeed, the paper continues, Their contribution to global mitigation efforts is far greater than that by developed countries.
Environmentalists have complained about Mr. Modi?s decision. They say rising atmospheric carbon dioxide will cause droughts, melt Himalayan ice, and poison lakes and waterways in the Indian subcontinent.
CO2 in the atmosphere has some warming effect on Earths climate, but undisputed science shows that each additional CO2 molecule we emit has less warming effect than all its predecessors already in the air.
"Two mainstream news organizations are receiving hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars from Obamacare's Early Retiree Reinsurance Program (ERRP) a $5 billion grant program that's doling out cash to companies, states and labor unions in what the Obama administration considers an effort to pay for health insurance for early retirees. The Washington Post Company raked in $573,217 in taxpayer subsidies and CBS Corporation secured $722,388 worth of Americans' money."
Over the 55 years from 1958-2012, climate models not only significantly over-predict warming in the tropical troposphere, but they represent it in a fundamentally different way than is observed.
For summer months, the century scale trend is slightly down. But there is still no large century scale trend in drought.
UK Businesses Face Wave Of Green Taxes
Thomas A. Hemphill is associate professor of strategy, innovation, and public policy at the University of Michigan-Flint's School of Management.
The Sydney Morning Herald Friday 13 January 1939
It was clear from our visit to Goalbari that diversifying the ways people could make a living when the area is under water was fundamental to their long-term adaptation. Developing ways for students to go to school and to keep schools open even during floods seemed equally important. Improving access to services for these communities, like drinking water, health facilities and other types of income generating activities were critical to improving peoples resilience to these weather related challenges.
Rather this middle class guilt than not being allowed to hold political leaders and governments to account for their actions.
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The last thing we should be doing now, in our state of ignorance about the warming problem and institutional responses, is to rush into an unworkable worldwide policy. That is why we should focus on the quiet work of learning how to build institutions that can effectively address the problem, and not on public grandstanding.
And by the way, Rush Limbaugh first suggesting that environmentalists sabotaged the oil rig to block any more drilling and then saying that nature would take care of the cleanup by itself demands another Congressional action: a joint resolution demanding that Limbaugh fulfill his public promise to move to Costa Rica if the health care bill were enacted into law.
El Nino is a naturally occurring warming of the tropical Pacific Ocean and tends to warm the planet. Satellite temperatures are extremely sensitive to El Ninos (and La Nina cooling events), so mid-tropospheric readings spiked in early 2016.
Fredericksburg, a touristy town of slightly more than 10,000, lies in the heart of the Hill Country. It was founded in 1846 by German immigrants and to this day remains true to its German roots. Many businesses still carry their German names, including some great German restaurants. My wife and I thoroughly enjoyed one of those restaurants Der Lindenbaum which was recommended by one of my readers.
Voters have decisively rejected Proposition 1A, which would have raised taxes to cover spending. The Governator will therefore have to become the Terminator again if he wants to avoid the state going bankrupt.
Ive done a quick read of Dessler (2011). I have the same problem with Desslers paper that I had with S&B; and LC. These analyses dont really tell us anything about cloud feedback, although they are interpreted as doing so. The simple energy balance model upon which equation (1) is useful (at best) only for black box thermodynamics only analyses of the climate system. Cloud feedback is frequency dependent, and the key issue S&B; are trying to address is the role of natural internal variability in modulating clouds, which in turn modulates the radiative balance and surface temperature; it is in this sense that they then refer to clouds as a forcing. This inconsistency arises from trying to use the black box energy balance feedback model to make inferences about the impact of internal dynamical variations on clouds and the energy balance.
What has struck me in doing this analysis is that looking at individual surface temperature stations becomes nonsensical, as they are grid reference points. Thus comparing the station moves for Reykjavik with the adjustments will not achieve anything. The implications of this insight will have to wait upon another day.
When one cuts through EPAs propaganda, the health benefits the Agency touts are virtually nonexistent. In reality, Utility MACT is designed to kill coal. As EPA admits, this extension of Obamas cap-and-trade agenda will cost American families up to $11 billion in electricity rate increases (over 11 percent increase, on average), and destroy up to 1.4 million jobs. Workers recently laid off in Ohio, Kentucky, and West Virginia are feeling the devastating impacts of this rule. Sadly, these lost jobs are a part of President Obamas wider war on coal as well as fossil fuels, which he admitted was his goal on the campaign trail in 2008 when he said, if somebody wants to build a coal-fired plant they can. Its just that it will bankrupt them and under my plan of a cap-and-trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket.
Golden eagles are the latest roadblock to establishing wind farms on federally owned land, already an expensive process plagued by years of bureaucratic delay. The projects also have been untracked by other wildlife issues, a sluggish economy and objections by defense and aviation authorities that wind turbines interfere with the country's aged radar system.
the scientists religious feeling takes the form of a rapturous amazement at the harmony of natural law, which reveals an intelligence of such superiority that, compared with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human beings is utterly insignificant reflection. This feeling is the guiding principle of his life and work, in so far as he succeeds in keeping himself from the shackles of selfish desire. It is beyond question closely akin to that which has possessed the religious geniuses of all ages.
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"Reducing farm animals' wind by adding garlic to feed could substantially reduce greenhouse emissions, according to research by West Wales' scientists featured by Euronews.
Speaking on his appointment Mike Haseler said: "I want to thank everyone in the Sceptic community who has helped me particularly the members of the Scottish Climate and Energy Forum, Andrew Montford who through his blog has inspired everyone in Scotland, Anthony Watts and his team whose quality and quantity of coverage on Climate, Energy and Science in general is a jewel of the internet and everyone else in the Sceptic community. But one person stands out: I often felt that Lord Christopher Monckton really deserved to be called 'the Scottish Sceptic' and I look forward to working closer with him in UKIP"
We know from the governments national greenhouse and energy reporting scheme data that lists our highest emitting companies that the tax will include energy companies.
Two Years In, Obama Says Full Recovery Will "Take Us Several Years":
Many of the Obama administration's actions directly attack these core beliefs. Working-class Americans crave economic security, but they see an administration that talks more about health care and climate change than about jobs. The current recession exacerbates their natural fear of downward mobility, but they see an administration seemingly incapable of providing the very thing they want most from a center-left government. In the Henry Louis Gates and Ground Zero mosque controversies, liberal progressives saw an articulate leader defending individual rights; working-class voters saw someone who questioned the police, perhaps the bedrock institution that provides public order, and showed an insufficient degree of patriotism.
Global Warming Not Happening Global Cooling Is Real And Now
We are headed towards a Little Ice Age ?? and the current climate propaganda is pointing us in the wrong direction.
Al Gore's Plan to Bring Back Dust Bowls
"At the same time it's apparent that the United States needs more high-skill immigrantsjob creators rather than job seekers."Michael Barone
(And yes, I do think the Texas Hill Country would be a good place to live as we head into the coming ice age. In fact, I loved it.)
The latest satellite data on Arctic sea ice extent suggests that there is now a normal amount of sea ice in the Arctic normal is defined as about average for the period 1979 2007.
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