Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
Dr JENSEN (Tangney) (8.30 pm)The Prime Minister is a coward. He is a leader who takes his shots at people from a protected position yet lacks the courage to actually debate people directly. A little over a week ago the Prime Minister delivered one of the most outlandish speeches ever uttered by a senior politician in Australia. In that speech he made all sorts of bizarre allegations that anthropogenic climate change sceptics were being driven by vested interests, were out to destroy the future of our children and grandchildrenthe typical refrain of those who do not have the facts on their side and therefore resort to emotive terminologyhad a lack of knowledge and were cowardly. On the question of cowardice, I will debate Kevin Rudd on the science of climate change anywhere, anytime. I am very confident that he will be too cowardly to accept the challenge. It is far easier to resort to invective.
Er, no, it cant. Im not sure that even the holy books of IPeCaC have ever suggested that runaway temperature feedback is even a possibility. In any event, elementary considerations in the mathematics of feedback amplification make runaway feedback an impossibility.
Environmental News informs that it was nominating an end on January 12. Now, the jury along with the Environmental Aktuellts subscribers (* anml your interest by sending an email with a nice motivation for why you want to join the mikael.salo@idg.se later than 12 February) to review and rank the nominees utifrn FOLLOWING criteria : Urban commented actual environmental benefit, actually real influence, trovrdighet, commitment.
To avoid any potential confusion, I stated this non-advocacy as clearly as I could in a post that took notice of Briffas initial response to the Yamal controversy:
Al Gore's "Tragic Indifference to the Human Consequences"
Antarctic sea ice underestimated by 50%.
Scientists looked at 13 polar bear subpopulations and found "much of the scientific evidence indicating that some polar bear subpopulations are declining due to climate change-mediated sea ice reductions is likely flawed by poor markrecapture sampling." This means researchers aren't able to put together accurate "demographic parameters."
From CEI: Research Associate Adam Chamberlain on Canada's vast and underappreciated oil reserves.
That??s an efficiency gap greens can??t account for. The coal and steel industries became far more efficient as they matured. Solar panels may yet become more efficient, it??s possible they might attain 40% efficiency soon. But they need to be replaced every 20 years, and they don??t make sense without generous subsidies.
They published this graph, which shows that sea level rise has not accelerated since the 19th century. I added the red trend line.
As the atmosphere's CO2 concentration continues to rise, most plants tend to exhibit increased rates of photosynthesis and biomass production, including those of various grassland ecosystems. This increase in productivity should increase the amount of forage available for grazing animals and possibly reduce the land area occupied by bare soil in certain environments. However, some people claim that global warming will negate the growth-promoting effects of atmospheric CO2 enrichment and actually stimulate the opposite process of desertification. This summary thus seeks to develop an answer to this important question by reviewing published scientific studies of the photosynthetic and growth responses of grassland plants to atmospheric CO2 enrichment when exposed to higher-than-normal temperatures.
One could never read a Ken Smith column without learning something valuable. In meeting his end with calm and grace, Ken taught us a valuable and inspiring lesson about death and facing up to its inevitability with dignity and without fear.
The contentious issues still on the table include three global warming titles in the Senate version of H.R. 4, the Senate's renewable portfolio standard for privately-owned electric utilities, differing versions of new CAF (Combined Automobile Fuel Efficiency) standards, the Senate's expanded ethanol mandate, and the House provision to allow oil exploration in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
It's just far more effective for gunmen to act individually if they want to achieve a similar "goal". Without backups, some of them may fail but indeed, they sometimes do. But if someone wants to have a decent enough chance to kill the president of the U.S., the best strategy is simply to try. Individually. It may even be better not to inform or ask anyone else because that could reduce the probability of the success. That's what happened according to all the evidence I see: a lone gunman. People who find it natural to believe that there should be several shooters and backups think like communists and would be lousy managers if they adopted the same philosophy in their management. Some jobs may simply be done by one person. Shooting a man and whether he's a president doesn't really matter is an example.
The emissions limits the White House wants and continues to impose would constitute less than a faction of a single degree Fahrenheit over the course of a decade or more. In short, nothing.
The full paper, Does the Agulhas Current amplify global temperatures during super-interglacials?, appears in the latest edition of the Journal of Quarternary Science . It can be viewed here: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jqs.1423/abstract
The glacier claim proved to be based on a 2005 World Wildlife Fund pamphlet, which in turn was based on a 1999 New Scientist interview with Indian scientist Syed Hasnain (see his joint interview with Richard North).
Looks like a cooling trend see plot in antarctic-sea-ice-sets-new-high-in-may
Record temperatures hot and cold are set every day around the world; that's the nature of records. Statistically, any given place will see four record high temperatures set every year. There is evidence that daytime high temperatures are staying about the same as for the last few decades, but nighttime lows are gradually rising. Global warming might be more properly called, "Global less cooling."
The red line shows the trend over the ~ 13 years of the record which is 0.01 W/m2 per decade, statistically no different from zero.
To Gorbachev's prime minister Nikolai Ryzhkov, the "moral state of the society" in 1985 was its "most terrifying" feature:
Singer noted that it is the Policymakers Summary, not the science, that is the impetus behind proposals to negotiate binding limits on greenhouse gas emissions in Kyoto, Japan, in December 1997 (PR Newswire, June 23, 1997).
It is generally accepted that sea levels increased during the 20thC at a rate of about 185mm or about 7. Furthermore studies suggest that there was no acceleration in this rate during that time. One of the best known studies was by Bruce Douglas , who produced the above graph from Tide Gauge records for 23 geologically stable sites.
Obama Says He Has No Tolerance For Non-Believers In The State Sanctioned Religion
It is not for a non-climatologist such as me to say which climate-sensitivity value is correct. On this brief analysis, however, it is evident that the models on which the IPCC relies are little better than expensive guesswork, and that no great reliance can be placed upon the IPCCs central estimates, still less on its high-end estimates. As a policymaker, I should be profoundly reluctant, given the current state of the science, to recommend to Ministers that they should take the drastic actions advocated in some circles to mitigate global warming.
John fails to see that such conflicts of interest compromise balanced assessments in climate science, and, presumably also in other fields where we do not have expertise.
New York Times: Remember when we told you that global warming causes warmer winters? We should have said that global warming causes "colder' winters
A federal court strikes down efforts by the Securities and Exchange Commission to regulate the hedge fund industry.
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Marlo, first of all, what potential significance does this Supreme Court decision to review the case have? Does it indicate evidence of a shift within the Court with regard to statutory boundaries of the EPA's regulatory authority?
Children just arent going to know what snow is, he said.
New York Times estimate $ 21.0 billion 1997 USD or about $ 13.0 billion in 1982-1983 dollars.
In other words, President Obama looks like he has been played for a fool by the Chinese, or that he played the role all by himself.
NASA's James Hansen has estimated that the greenhouse gases already emitted into the atmosphere are likely to deliver about 1 of additional warming by the year 2100, regardless of what we do to slow the growth in greenhouse gas emissions today. That additional warmth could have a broad range of impacts, from slightly higher sea levels and coastal flooding, to increased drought in drought-prone regions, to increased water shortages in those areas dependent on winter snow deposits, and so on. Democrats and environmentalists are fond of pointing out that these disaster losses are a future cost of global warming.
For example, the visibility program applies to facilities based on their emissions of ?any pollutant.? 42 U.S.C. 7491(g)(7). In the context of that program, EPA has interpreted the term ?any pollutant? to mean ?any visibility-impairing pollutant,? which obviously does not include greenhouse gases. 40 C.F.R. pt. 51, App. Y, II.A. Similarly, the nonattainment program applies to areas that have been designated as nonattainment ?for any air pollutant.? 42 U.S.C. 7501(2). In the context of that program, the term ?air pollutant? is logically limited to the NAAQS air pollutants, which are the only pollutants for which an area can be designated as nonattainment. Id. 7407(d)(1)(A).
Building a Better Canada U.S. Energy Dialogue with Natural Gas
[Editor?s note: The following material was supplied to us by Dr. Richard Lindzen as an example of how research that counters climate-change alarm receives special treatment in the scientific publication process as compared with results that reinforce the consensus view. In this case, Lindzen's submission to the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences was subjected to unusual procedures and eventually rejected (in a rare move), only to be accepted for publication in the Asian Pacific Journal of Atmospheric Sciences.
In the next 50 years there would be no temperature increase, but rather a slight temperature decrease is expected. In the decades before and after the year 2300 a powerful temperature drop could occur because both the 230-year cycle and 100-year cycle would be dropping rapidly together in parallel.
One is gas turbines, to function as backup generators that can supply power whenever winds are not blowing at usable speeds. But unless shale gas development proceeds apace, this would increase Europes dependence on Russian gas supplies. It would also result in inefficient gas use and higher carbon emissions, as generators ramp up and down every time wind turbine output changes.
4) Meteorologists Blame Jet Stream For Unusual Weather Pattern
The Preamble of the U.N. Biodiversity Treaty admits there "is a general lack of information and knowledge regarding biological diversity," but says "where there is a threat of significant reduction or loss of biological diversity, lack of full scientific certainty should not be used as a reason for postponing measures to avoid or minimize such a threat."
Whether or not you believe that the burning of fossil fuels significantly affects the earth??s temperature, the ice core data offers no evidence to support that ??? no matter how big the graph is.
we need to have the ability to tell fact from fiction. This last mailing is an excellent example of fiction.
28.a. How much do you think the potential impact of global climate change is one of the leading problems for eco-systems
The Wall Street Journal today ran a top-fold, front page news item about how China's insatiable demand for energy has stimulated a boon in the international trade of coal. This is more evidence that globalization makes a mockery of the best laid plans to fight climate change. So while Congress deliberates, and enviros agitate, big, bad King Coal is making money hand-over-fist selling coal to a growing China.
Heid, T. and Kaab, K. 2011. Worldwide widespread decadal-scale decrease of glaciers speed revealed using repeat optical satellite images. Cryosphere Discussions 5 : 3025-3051.
Nine million containers enter U.S. ports each year, and 80 percent of U.S. port facilities these days are owned by foreign companies. It is estimated that the detonation of a 10-to-20 kiloton nuclear weapon in a container would cause a disruption of trade valued at $100 billion to $300 billion, property damage of $50 billion to $500 billion, and the loss of 50,000 to 1 million lives. A mere dirty bomb smuggled in a container would kill very few people, but the disruption would cost $58 billion and it would take 19 days for ports to resume normal operations and 92 days to stabilize the container backlog by which time the disruption could well spawn a recession.
Writing in Commentary, Jonathan S. Tobin, said that the new regulations on carbon emissions will have a potentially devastating impact on Americas more than 600 coal-fired power plants noting that the move was made possible by Supreme Court decisions that ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency had the right to regulate (CO2) emissions, giving the President virtual carte blanche to remake this sector of our economy without requiring congressional consent.
According to a Sierra Club press release, the ad's goal was to ward off any attempt by Congress to rein in EPA's regulation of greenhouse gases. The ad tries to achieve this by linking climate change to childhood asthma. The climate-asthma association, in turn, is based on a hypothesis that global warming will cause longer growing seasons, which in turn would result in the release of more pollen, an asthma trigger.
He has argued in his ???previous papers that the available climatic data would suggest an astronomical modulation of the cloud cover that would induce small oscillations in the albedo which, consequently, would cause oscillations in the surface temperature also by modulating ocean oscillations??
On the topic of multi-billion pound con tricks the UK is waking up to the news that wind turbines dont work well . Giant bird shredders have been sold on the easily misunderstood but optimistic capacity number rather than the actual generating performance. How does 22% efficiency sound . Anyone? Wind farms also do not create jobs.
Cars are most vulnerable in side impact collisions. According to the institute, in fatal collisions involving cars that are hit on the side by SUVs, the relative risk that the death will be in the car rather than the SUV is an apparently lopsided 27-to-1. But when this relative risk is broken down by car weight categories, it turns out that car-SUV mismatches are frequently outweighed by other common collision disparities. For example, the occupants of a light car struck in the side by a heavy car face a greater relative risk of death than when a heavy car is side-impacted by an SUV. That is, there is a greater mismatch between light cars and heavy cars than there is between heavy cars and SUVs.
Ice cores reveal that CO2 levels rise and fall hundreds of years after temperatures change
Previous investigations of the Climategate affair were pretty much whitewashes. Another one, led by Muir Russell, is expected to report soon. However, it is not charged with investigating the science either.
Location Length Trend Cook Is. 64 +13.7Samoa 64 -9.7Tonga 65 +29.1Tuvalu 62 -34.3Fiji 69 +10.3Kiribati 62 -21.4Marshall Is. 58 -11.7Vanuatu 55 +12.1Nauru 59 -26.4Solomon Is. 45 -41.3Papua NG 32 -43.6
For addition commentary on Al Gore's approval of gas taxes, please contact Myron Ebell, Director of Global Warming Policy, or Emily McGee, Director of Media Relations, at the Competitive Enterprise Institute.
Coal, oil and natural gas are labeled ?dirty? for propaganda purposes, but what the Sierra Club and others do not tell you and will never tell you is that they account for most of the electricity generated in America, along with nuclear and hydropower. Wind and solar power provide approximately 3% of the electricity and require government subsidies and mandates to exist. Their required use drives up the cost of electricity to consumers.
Molly: Really, Heath? Really? That sounds kinda biophobic to me.
Their next target perhaps the ideal target of CO2 was in their sights. Noise about global warming started in the late '80s, but it didn't really get much traction until the mid- to late '90s right after the CFC ban was a done deal.
This issue was made very explicit by the title of the Scientific American article entitled Climate Heretic: Judith Curry turns against her Colleagues . Of all the issues raised by Climategate and the points I had been trying to make about overconfidence and uncertainty, transparency, engaging with skeptics, etc., the main issue of interest in all this was construed as me turning against my colleagues? It was hard for me to understand this at first, but then I realized that by talking about uncertainty and engaging with skeptics that I was following the playbook according to the merchants of doubt meme. So talking about topics that I regarded as efforts that were needed to rebuild the credibility of climate science was regarded by my colleagues as damaging to the consensus.
The conclusion is stark the contribution of power from solar panels during winter months is effectively worthless, regardless of how many solar farms are built.
Yet, there are some people out there who think that humanity as a disease on the earth that, unchecked, will use up all of its resources. They want you to turn off your lights for an hour this Saturday for "Earth Hour" in a show of support for enforced energy conservation. It's your right to choose to do this if you want. On the other hand, you can join the thousands of people around the world that will not shut off their lights during that hour, and instead will celebrate the innovations of humanity and advocate for the protection of our freedom to continue advancing.
Such candidates have not fared well beyond Democrats' demographic clusters, especially since voters have seen the handiwork of the Obama administration. Republicans now hold majorities of governorships, Senate and House seats and control of state legislatures. Target states in presidential races have produced few if any Democratic officeholders competitive in presidential races.
Professor Niklas Mrner, who was told in 2004 by a sea-level specialist at the University of Colorado that the data from the TOPEX/Poseidon and Jason satellites were tilted to create an artificial impression of a rate of sea-level rise that is not in fact occurring, says his central estimate is that sea level will rise this century by 5 15cm, or 2 6 inches. Spencer 6, Nuccitelli 0.
Singer and the Marshall Institute complained to Newsweek editor Jon Meacham and to writer Sharon Begley, but Newsweek has never corrected its story. On the contrary, Sharon Begley has gone on to write other poorly founded stories about global warming and its skeptics.
So has global temperature not increased? It has not, if by not increased we meanetc., etc.
> >> inter-decadal variability (very large for the Sahel) and multi-decadal
I fear that we??re headed into such a period of great cooling and repetitive catastrophic flooding right now.
Photoshop, not diabetes from drinking soda caused Cleo Berry to lose his leg.
Notice that the Obama administration has been unable to induce even a Democratic Congress to enact "carbon' policies.
8. How much would you be willing to pay to forestall the risk of catastrophic climate change?
86. The historical increase in the airs CO2 content has improved human nutrition by raising crop yields during the past 150 years on the order of 70 percent for wheat, 28 percent for cereals, 33 percent for fruits and melons, 62 percent for legumes, 67 percent for root and tuber crops, and 51 percent for vegetables.
Your site, Spiked and a few others are very good at exposing the fallacious and fatuous logic of the Warmists arguments on CO2 and trends, and in revealing the strong links between politicizing scientists and global warming. As you point out above, one distinguished scientist postulates a link between obesity and global warming without a single shred of evidence.
Double counting is prone to occur in a natural gas-to-electricity production chain where the same fuel is counted twice. Of course, natural gas is the major competitor to green power. Cap and Trade is supposed to work in the long-term by withdrawing permits, thus forcing industries to either buy increasingly higher-priced permits or reduce pollution. What CARB has done so far instead is to flood the market with permits and collect $396 million in permit fees while failing to reduce an iota of emissions. BCG Environmental Brokerage has raised the issue of whether this double counting might be considered fraud. Gov. Jerry Brown has diverted Cap and Trade revenues into the state General Fund in violation of the law that created the Cap and Trade program by calling it a loan.
But UKIP members are a bunch of fruit cakes, loonies and closet racists? Well done for swallowing an establishment lie . Such people exist in all parties, though UKIP members are much more widely reported. We are the only party to ban anyone who has ever been a member of any extremist group from membership which is more than can be said for the Labour Party who have fielded a number of ex-BNP candidates and even have an ex-Nazi councillor in Milton Keynes! Were the only major party to have a Friends of Poland group after the collapse due to lack of interest in similar groups from the Labour and Conservative parties. We stood more black and ethnic minority candidates in the 2013 local elections than the Conservatives or Liberal Democrats, and as many as the Labour Party though still, may I add, not enough. And we were found to be the most favourably viewed party in Britain by a poll conducted for The Independent.
The Briffa 2000 reconstruction, as shown below, has a highish MWP, whichis just a titch less than the modern values. The medieval values (averaged) are just a titch lower than 20th century and some years look as high.
In discussing their findings, Winkler et al . report that lower rather than higher temperatures adversely affected Symbiodinium recruitment by reducing larval survival and settlement. Also, they found that low temperatures reduced Symbiodinium habitat choice and initial symbiont densities, both of which impact post-settlement survival. And even more intriguing, they discovered that at lower temperatures the coral larvae "increasingly settle away from preferred vertical surfaces."
In his party conference speech on Tuesday, Ed Miliband, as well as promising to create a million new green jobs (perhaps he can wave his magic wand and create 1 million blue and red ones too!), also said, and I quote (from the New Statesmans full transcript):
In short, the Grand Cherokee and Viper prove that an Italian auto executive is more in touch with the American people than their own president. What Marchionne & Co. realized is that SUVs and muscle cars are what Americans do best. And they are exporting them to the world. The Viper will go on the international sports car racing circuit against the best from Ferrari and Porsche. And Jefferson North will soon be building Maserati SUVs yes, Maserati trucks on a modified version of the Jeep platform.