Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
The timelineof these actions iscritical. In June 2010, the Senate voted on Sen. Murkowskis resolution ( S.J.Res.26 ) to overturn the EPAs Endangerment Rule, the prerequisite for all EPA global warming regulations. The resolution fell short by four votes (47-53). In April 2011, the Senate voted on Sen. Inhofes legislation to overturn all EPA global warming regulations except those auto companies had already made investments to comply with. The bill failed on a 50-50 tie vote. Had McCarthy and the EPA been candid about their anti-coal agenda in 2010 and 2011, more Senators might have voted for those measures.
The constitutional and legal issues make the parallel less than perfect, but the principle remains the same. Indeed, I'd wager that the costs of illegal immigrationeconomic, social, and environmentalon Arizona dwarf the costs on California from global warming, at least so far.
There has been a rise in temperature of a full degree since 1976. Note, though, how temperatures have flatlined in the last decade.
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Christopher Monckton has already spoken about the draft treaty with its message of setting up a new form of global governance, but without any mention of voting. He spoke again yesterday to Alex Jones and pointed out that in a sense Copenhagen succeeded , despite what everyone is saying. After all, it was never really about saving the environment was it? It was about setting up a world government, and they got the odd $30 billion dollars . Not bad for a failure.
Proponents of Internet sales taxes are asking the lame-duck Congress to bless their state tax cartel as part of a larger tax reform package by passing the Marketplace Equity Act (H.R. 3179) and its companion in the Senate, the Marketplace Fairness Act (S. 1832). These aren't your average tax increases, but grim blueprints for government's future relationship with the online world. Long after we've either swerved at the last minute or gone off the "fiscal cliff" a la "Thelma and Louise," we'll have to live with the harmful consequences of expanding government to every corner of the Internet. >
Not that these studio meteorologists were making the elementary mistake of confounding weather with climate, for this is a distinction familiar now even to kindergartners.
Jonathan H. Adler Competitive Enterprise Institute
Water vapor feedback exactly fits the feedback alteration of the input shown in the feedback schematic. The greenhouse-gas (ghg) atmospheric heat from CO2 produced water vapor can also heat the atmosphere by its own ghg effect. But its production removes more heat from the atmosphere than its added ghg effect can replace. Its presence also cools the atmosphere (see Figures 5, 6 and 7). It has its own negative saturation feedback and also augments CO2s negative saturation feedback. The analysis presented here shows that it has a universal and significant negative feedback.
However, it seems to me that Schmidts May 11 post additionally implied that little credence could be given to my emulation of the 2006 CRU regional chronology, which Schmidt described as an insta-reconstruction and said that I had thrown together. The next graphic compares my insta-reconstruction with information provided in the SI to Briffa et al 2013. Despite Schmidts sneering, I think that even my severest critic must concede that there is a very close resemblance between my emulation and the actual 2006 regional chronology.
THE DATA FOR THE EARLIER WARMING PERIOD REVEALS THE CURRENT ARCTIC AMPIFICATION IS NOT UNUSUAL
Within six days after planting, photosynthetic rates of second leaves of CO 2 -enriched plants were 37% greater than those of second leaves of ambiently-grown plants. This CO 2 -induced photosynthetic enhancement slowly declined over the growing season, stabilizing around 15% for the time period between 23 and 60 days after planting. In addition, when measuring photosynthetic rates at reduced oxygen concentrations of 2%, the authors observed 16 and 9% increases in photosynthesis for ambient and CO 2 -enriched plants, respectively, indicating that elevated CO 2 was reducing photorespiratory carbon losses. Even so, this phenomenon could not fully account for the CO 2 -induced stimulation of photosynthesis. Thus, after further investigation, the authors suggested that elevated CO 2 might have decreased CO 2 leakage from specialized bundle sheath cells, which concentrate CO 2 internally to promote photosynthetic carboxylation reactions by the enzyme rubisco . What it means
This is all part of the 60 year patterns in the weather cycles, and can be explained as such. Now that the outer planet synod conjunctions of the Earth with Neptune and Uranus are moving into the fall and early winter, we can expect them to produce the increased snowfall events and cold polar blasts being seen in both hemispheres.
The nexus between religion and global warming is an interesting one. The dogma associated with global warming was discussed in a number of my previous posts:
Eilperins story is certainly is in the running. Study Says Polar Bears Could Face Extinction obviously was aimed at the heartstrings: Assuming the current rate of ice shrinkage and accompanying weight loss in the Hudson Bay region, bears there could become so thin by 2012 they may no longer be able to reproduceOnce the population stops reproducing, thats pretty much the end of it. Eilperin attributed this information to Lara Hansen of the World Wildlife Fund.
The national security challenges arising from these climate impacts include: "threats to stability of countries, heightened social and political tensions, adverse effects on food prices and availability, increased risks to human health, negative impacts on investment and economic competitiveness, and (get this) potential climate discontinuities and secondary surprises." I look forward to seeing how the Climate and National Security Working Group is going to plan how to handle potential climate discontinuities and secondary surprises.
The statement that In March a team of climate scientists at Kiel University predicted that natural variation would mask the 0.3C warming predicted by the Intergovernment Panel on Climate Change over the next decade is scientifically incorrect.Heating cannot be masked.
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That should worry all Americans, because California energy policy is an unmitigated disaster. California's expensive energy has driven industries out of the state. According to the Energy Information Agency, California has some of the highest electricity prices in the country, due in part to the laughably misnamed "deregulation" of California's electricity industry. Californians were actually left with an overregulated energy supply that cannot deliver energy at the affordable prices the rest of the country can. No wonder, then, that it has exported most of its electricity generation to other states.
The foundation arguments on which this entire nonsense-structure is built are very simple. First, atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide control the sun?s energy flow to and from the Earth and thus control global temperatures in particular and global climate generally. Second, anthropogenic emissions of carbon dioxide are driving atmospheric concentrations of this gas inexorably higher and higher, and the consequence will be climate catastrophe.
All the evidence points in the same direction there has been no warming in or around Antarctica since 1979. On the contrary, if there is any trend, it is to a cooler climate.
Today, we'll sign off with a brief round-up of Global Warming Oops Moments, failures and some of the movement's most persistent foolishness. This would be funnier, if it didn't cost you so much, and enrich so many schemers.
As demonstrated here, and in numerous additional reviews of other experiments posted on our website (found under the topics ??? and sub-topics ??? of Ocean Acidification and Ocean Acidification and Warming in our Subject Index ), for many species, ocean acidification will be a non-problem ?? and maybe even a blessing!
National Climate Assessment Report: Alarmists Offer Untrue, Unrelenting Doom and Gloom
Judge Scolds White House for Bad Faith in Global Warming Case
The ideology driving the sceptics is most obvious in the exchanges over the impact on future generations. US Tea Party activists and their bombastic British representative, Niall Ferguson now delivering the Reith lectures like to terrify their audiences with how much public debt today's generation is leaving its children. Yet the same argument is not applied to the planet. At the end of his first lecture Professor Ferguson was asked if he applied the same logic on future generations to climate change: he was flummoxed, and dodged the question.
The graph above plots the ten year running mean of the number of category five hurricanes making landfall . As you can see, the peak occurred during the 1930s and it has been relatively level since. There were four category five hurricanes which made landfall between 1924 and 1935, but only two during the past decade. It has been 18 years since a category five hurricane struck the US.
Unfortunately, while HeiQ came to EPA to have its product registered, other nanosilver manufacturers have not. The unregulated and untested use of nanosilver in such products as food storage containers and hair dryers continues to grow, despite potential dangerous health effects.
In the tropics right now, "the large part of wood harvested comes from plantations." Brazil is adding almost 500,000 thousand acres of forest plantation each year, and although these "account for only 2 percent of its forests, they provide 60 percent of the wood harvested." According to Roger Sedjo, "The world's current industrial wood consumption requirements could be produced on about 500 million acres of good forestland, an area only about five percent of the world's current forestland Natural forests no longer serve as a major source of industrial wood." (Cross and the Rainforest, p.146)
Instead, forecasters expect hot and dry high pressure systems, comparable with patterns which delivered the 2003 and 2006 scorchers.
In Weingarts view, climate science has abused its position in goingfar beyond policy advising. They now insistthatthe rest of the world dance to its tune. Weingart cites examples of humans alreadybeing forced to alter their behaviour: carbon trading, changing light bulbs, basing purchasing decisions on climate impact, to name a few.
The Great Storm of 1703 was the most severe storm or natural disaster ever recorded in the southern part of Great Britain. The Royal Navy lost 13 ships and 1500 seamen. Up to 15000 people died overall.
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A recent open-access paper in GRL by Chylek et al, here , throws further light on the behaviour of three of the models used by Shindell. The authors conclude from an inverse structural analysis that the CanESM2, GFDL-CM3and HadGEM-ES models all strongly overestimate GHG warming and compensate by a very strongly overestimated aerosol cooling, which simulates AMO-like behaviour with the correct timing something that would not occur if the models were generating true AMO behaviour from natural internal variability. Interestingly, the paper also estimates that only about two-thirds of the post-1975 global warming is due to anthropogenic effects, with the other one-third being due to the positive phase of the AMO.
That was vindication for a man who was termed a civil heretic in a New York Times Magazine article on his contrarian views. Dyson embraces that label, with its implication that what he opposes is a religious movement. So does his fellow Princeton physicist and fellow skeptic, William Happer.
But the whole disappearing sea ice threatens polar bears survival story is in reality a farce.
The eight researchers, all from Portugal, report that the growth of the mussels, measured as relative increases in shell size and body weight during the 84 days of the experiment, "did not differ among treatments." In fact, they say that a tendency for faster shell growth under elevated CO 2 was apparent, "at least during the first 60 days of exposure." In the case of calcification , however, they indicate that this process was reduced, but by only up to 9% . Yet even here they state that "given that growth was unaffected, the mussels clearly maintained the ability to lay down CaCO 3 , which suggests post-deposition dissolution as the main cause for the observed loss of shell mass." Last of all, with respect to mortality , Range et al . write that "mortality of the juvenile mussels during the 84 days was small (less than 10%) and was unaffected by the experimental treatments."
Because the two experiments yielded nearly identical results, we will focus our discussion on experiment two, since it was of greater duration.?? Elevated CO 2 apparently reduced rates of transpiration in all seedlings shortly after the start of the experiment.?? After 30 days of differential CO 2 exposure, seedlings growing at 700 ppm displayed shoot water potential values that were nearly 40% higher (less negative and thus less stressful) than those measured in seedlings growing at ambient CO 2 .?? At the end of the 82-day dry-down, elevated CO 2 had significantly increased seedling root and shoot biomass by 37 and 46%, respectively, regardless of the region from where the seeds they sprouted originated.?? Moreover, atmospheric CO 2 enrichment more than doubled seedling survivorship under drought conditions without significantly favoring one genotype over another. What it means
In Vanishing Ice Most Likely All Natural (transcipt here) I argued that Greenlands glaciers would soon stabilize and sea ice in the Barents Sea would soon recover based on trends in the transport of warm Atlantic water into the Arctic. Although a one-year recovery is much too short a period from which to derive reliable projections, it is exactly what natural climate dynamics predict.
If you are wondering, what about cooling of the atmosphere in contact with the ground?, well just make the soil layer deeperit turns out that 0.2 meters of soil is equivalent in bulk heat capacity to about 200 m of atmosphere.
The report comes with a statement by the OPT which recommends that climate change negotiators recognize that population restraint is a vital part of tackling global warming and says, in part:
Excuse me? What "journalistic balance"? If the NewsHour"s ultimate explanation is that they did avoid such a "distorted form of journalistic balance' for years, did they first check the veracity of accusations against skeptics?
The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) has estimated the potential savings from a nationwide 25% renewable electricity standard, a goal included in the Waxman-Markey energy bill that narrowly passed the House last year. Best-case scenario: about 306 million tons less CO2 by 2030. Given that the agency expects annual U.S. carbon emissions to be about 6.2 billion tons in 2030, that expected reduction will only equal about 4.9% of emissions nationwide. That's not much when you consider that the Obama administration wants to cut CO2 emissions 80% by 2050.
Julian Morris discusses the economic impact of various changes of the climate rationally, as an economist. He compares the wealth of the future generations in poor nations with the riches of the present generation in rich nations: the first group will be wealthier. He argues that they will have enough resources to adapt to any change except for a global collapse.
But regardless of the cause, if you believe all of this, then enhanced greenhouse gases are inconsequential compared to the tremendous increase in solar energy hitting the surface. Apparently few want to admit to this.
Comparing measured values for cloudy sky to the calculated values for clear sky, the researchers found that, on average, puffy fair-weather clouds cool down the earth's surface by several percent on a summer day. Although clouds cool overall, two components that the researchers looked at from direct and scattered sunlight had opposite effects.
Some legislators thought the situation called for more bureaucracy and requiring Cajun navy and marines to obtain certificates and pay a fee before permitting them to help would be just the ticket.
???At this time, we believe the scientific understanding of the global climate is inadequate to justify drastic control policies and needs to be better developed to support limiting greenhouse gas emissions ??? limitations that would damage the economic well-being of most of the world??s population.
I could see the light turning on in Tabitha?s head as she slowly said, ?It?s almost like they have another agenda behind this Green movement stuff?.
They certainly are, writes Lewis Page in the Register . If it is the case that actually the climate has often been warmer without any significant CO2 emissions having taken place suggesting that CO2 emissions simply arent that important the case for huge efforts to cut those emissions largely disappears.
How can a scientific conclusions that emerge from "processes of deliberation and discussion rather than from pure observation, experimentation and falsification" be considered "settled" and "certain"? And do you agree or disagree with Hulme that climate scientists should not suggest "that matters are settled"?
H/t to Pat for the correction of George Pells status: current Archbishop it is.
In 1999, NASA showed US temperatures falling. That didnt meet their funding requirements , so they simply altered the data to make the cooling disappear, and turned it into warming. Straight out of Orwell.
Not only is EPA continuing to stall the permitting process, they are trying to stop permits that have already been granted. In January 2011 EPA took the drastic and unprecedented step of revoking a lawfully issued mining permit that the Bush Army Corps of Engineers had granted to the Spruce Mine project in Appalachia. Fortunately, the courts recognized EPA overreach in this case. March 23, 2012 the U.S. District Court ruled that EPA exceed its authority and as the Judge said, EPA's claim that it can veto a permit already issued by the Army Corps of Engineers is a "stunning power for an agency to arrogate to itself."
MACD Not only is it red on top but it has crossed the zero line to a negative value. Gold Bear Market is what its saying. While we had a counter trend rally in October (DMI and MACD both blue on top) thats ended.
Be all that as it may, the next IPCC report is now being produced. It will attempt to reflect what the various committees and advisors believe to be the scientific consensus on various matters including sea levels. But it appears that there simply isn't any scientific consensus on the Antarctic and Greenland melt rates - and therefore there isn't one on sea levels either.
But count on Maurice to come back Strong when there's a good opportunity to cash in on fossil-fueled climate alarm, reentering through the Green curtains of the anti-carbon scam stage as chairman of the China Carbon Corporation, and vice chairman of the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX).
The state regulates the public utilities. The state certifies the public utilities. Their performance in this operation I believe is germane to their regulatory status, he continued. If the state believes they were not diligent and aggressive in their activities to restore power, they could be subject to monetary penalties. They could even lose their certification. I have communicated this orally to most and we are also releasing a letter that I sent them today. I believe, as I said, most of the companies are working very hard and are trying their best. But this is not just about effort and good faith effort, this is about getting the job done because a lot of New Yorkers are relying on them. If they want to be a utility in this state, if they want consumers to pay the bill, if they want to be licensed by the state, certified by the state, then they have to perform.
12.	" that Germany has to decrease its emissions until 2020 by 40%." No, Germany doesn't have to do that, cannot do that, and won't do that.
So what does this really mean? What impact will such a ruling have depending upon whichever way it goes? I have asked my good friend Marlo Lewis, a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C., to discuss the implications regarding whether petitioners win or lose.
Since the 1970s, the south-western corner of Western Australia has suffered a dramatic decline in their winter rainfall, so rapid and so extreme that its like, somewhere, a giant tap is being turned off.
I'd say they're about 90% talk, and about 10% actions that barely nibble at the edges of greenhouse gas emission growth. Even at that, the costs of nibbling are revealing themselves to be as high as critics said they'd be, and more of the talk is turning to back-peddling, rather than pouring on more money.
Surely the responsibility for using the most comprehensive available data rests with CRU and the journal reviewers. If they neglect to do so, they deserve criticism. It is ludicrous for Osborn to attack me because they were negligent.
So EPA needed additional studies, to back up its expansive, bogus epidemiological assertions. The new studies, JunkScience.com director Steve Milloy discovered, involved human test subjects. They raised numerous new legal, ethical and scientific problems.
Its time for skeptics to smile again, the regular round-up of all things warm, toasty and positively hoaxy is here.
Among many examples, see Union of Concerned Scientists. 2004 Climate Change: Choosing Our Future, http://www.climatechoices.org/data/.
Note: NOAA/ OGP survey of Global Impacts caused by the 1997-1998 ENSO warm event was $ 25.0-33.0 billion
Suppressed Critical Knowledge. Phil Jones wrote, "I've been told that IPCC is above national FOI Acts. One way to cover yourself and all those working on the IPCC 5th Assessment Report would be to delete all e-mails at the end of the process. Any work we have done in the past is done on the back of the research grants we get and has to be well hidden. I've discussed this with the main funder in the past and they are happy about not releasing the original station data." The U.S. government was colluding with the hiders, who received tens of millions of dollars over the years. Jones wrote to Mann, "Mike, can you delete any emails you may have had with Keith Briffa re AR4 ? Keith will do likewise. We will be getting Caspar Ammann to do likewise."
Finally, America's mayor didn't make it through the primaries. You know, your humble correspondent probably isn't the most canonical guy who would have picked Giuliani but I would find him highly natural in the office, anyway. He's still a symbol of the mainstream America's leader who has everything that seemed necessary in those old years when I couldn't think about a single major complaint against America these days, I have way too many.
Today, counting the E.U. as a single entity, perhaps fifteen to twenty nations around the world are major sources of GHG discharges. Agreement is already difficult, but the real test lies in the future. Economic growth will swell the number of major sources. Eventually, participation has to be nearly universal, or countries without controls are likely to become magnets for GHG-intensive activities. Essentially, a great many nations have, or will eventually gain, an effective veto over global GHG control efforts.
The province of Alberta, Canada will propose a greenhouse gas reduction plan as an alternative to the Kyoto Protocol, according to its Environment Minister, Lorne Taylor. The plan will resemble the one proposed by President George W. Bush, in that it will rely on financial incentives to develop technologies that would emit fewer greenhouse gases.